EXSEL at Leeds

Scholars and awards

As an EXSEL scholar you will start the scholarship in June of your 2nd year on the MBChB programme. EXSEL provides a bursary to Scholars from the end of year 2 and each subsequent year (including your intercalated year at Leeds) until the scholar graduates.

You will meet monthly with the two EXSEL directors and other EXSEL scholars to review, discuss and showcase your work. Under the supervision of the EXSEL Directors and research mentors, you will develop valuable research, personal skills, contacts and a portfolio of project work that will support your future clinical career.

When travelling to undertake EXSEL projects you will act as an ambassador for the Leeds School of Medicine.

Current Scholars

MBChB Year 5 EXSEL Scholars

Joe Hart
James Manning
Tobias Mill
James Nicholson
Millie Mitchell-Gears
Badria Alkazemi
Carolina Franco Da Silva  

MBChB Year 4 EXSEL Scholars

Sam Peat

Harry Jamson

Seerat Shirazi

Intercalating EXSEL Scholars

Penny Sucharitkul

Kaiwen Wang

Year 3 EXSEL Scholars

Alice Barber

Megan Heague

Eden Page

Precious Jolugbo

Year 2 EXSEL Scholars

Adithi Randeni

Alna Dony

Nishan Brooks

Oluwanilo Awoloto

Alumni

Dr Dahlia Abdul-Rahman	Dr Aisha Ismail	Dr Karl Roberts
Dr Mais Al-Hity	Dr Christopher Jones	Dr Simon Romaine
Dr Junaid Azam	Dr Iain Kennedy	Dr Gemma Sheehan-Dare
Dr Lakshmanan Arunachalam	Dr Omar Khalil	Dr Dhakshana Sivayoganathan
Dr Jonathan Batty	Dr Mehvish Khatoon	Dr Kate Sutton
Dr Aladeen Bekhit	Dr Cindy Kim	Dr James Thomas
Dr Trusha Bhatt	Dr Josh Leader	Dr Emily Wright
Dr Sunil Bhopal	Dr Christopher Lewis	Dr Rini Vyas
Dr Mary Booth	Dr Peter Mackley	Dr Matt Goldsworthy
Dr Paul Bramley	Dr Barbara Onen	Dr Elle Green
Dr Laure Bretsztajn	Dr Peter Mackley	Dr Jack Helliwell
Dr Euan Bright	Dr Barbara Onen	Dr Lauren Mecia
Dr Hannah Chamberlain	Dr Nic Orsi	Dr Thomas Shanahan
Dr Elisabeth Edstam	Dr Prianka Padmanathan	Dr Ngoni Zava
Dr Benjamin Green	Dr Tejal Parekh	Dr Ciaran Kennedy
Dr James Gupta	Dr Gayatri Raghuram	Dr Saman Mukhtar
Dr Will Stevens	Dr Oliver Richards
Dr Emily Salt	Dr Lubiana Shabeer

The GRACE (Giving, Receiving, Aiding) Award

Giving, receiving, aiding award

The GRACE (Giving, receiving, aiding) award is given annually to an EXSEL scholar to enable them to travel to a host organisation to conduct humanitarian work.

Normally one GRACE award is presented each year to an EXSEL Scholar that has demonstrated a student instigated project (SIP) or initiative.

The aim of GRACE is to provide an award within which the scholar is able to demonstrate innovation, creativity and a strong sense of social responsibility.

The GRACE award will enable the scholar to:

Acquire a global mind-set
Develop and implement social responsibility
Understand how in the process of 'giving', one also 'receives

Develop leadership skills whilst working on the project

The GRACE award is sponsored by Xiros plc, a Leeds-based company which makes medical textile implants.

Year	EXSEL scholar	Host organisation	Location	Activity
2018-19	James Nicholson	Department of Health and Social Care and East Anglian Air Ambulance	United Kingdom	Policy and health systems
2017-18	Ciaran Kennedy	Harvard Medical School	Boston, USA	Health inequalities in India.
2016-17	Elle Green	World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe	Copenhagen, Denmark	Diabetic eye disease.
2015-16	Lauren-Beth Mecia	Rural Assistance Nepal	Eastern Nepal	Mountain medicine: healthcare challenges facing a rural Nepali community.
2014-15	Dr Paul Bramley	Light Education Development	Peru	Low resource medicine in high altitude Peru.
2014-15	Dr Christopher Jones	Lifebox	Sri Lanka	Surgical safety in Sri Lanka.
2013-14	Dr Euan Bright	National Hospital of Sri Lanka	Sri Lanka	Leishmaniaisis in Sri Lanka.
2012-13	Dr Prianka Padmanathan	BasicNeeds	Bihar, India	Rapid appraisal of the psychotropic drug distribution.
2011-12	Dr Elisabeth Edstam	i-india	Rajasthan, India	Provision of healthcare to street children.

The LEAD (Leadership, Enterprise and Academic Development) Award

The LEAD (Leadership, Enterprise and Academic Development) award is presented annually to an EXSEL scholar to enable them to undertake research at prestigious university research centres in the UK and abroad.

Normally one LEAD award is presented each year to an EXSEL Scholar that has demonstrated a student instigated project (SIP) or initiative.

The LEAD award will enable the scholar to:

Self-design an activity which will stimulate independent thought and action
Enhance research and analytical skills
Cultivate new contacts and networking opportunities
Develop leadership and enterprise skills

Year	EXSEL scholar	Location
Funded by Leeds School of Medicine
2018-19	Badria Alkazemi	McGill University, Canada
2018-19	Millie Mitchell-Gears	Harvard Medical School, USA
2017-18	Lubiana Shabeer	Johns Hopkins University, USA
2017-18	James Manning	Harvard Medical School, USA
2017-18	Joe Hart	Mayo Clinic, USA
2016-17	Emily Salt	Harvard Medical School, USA
2016-17	Matthew Goldsworthy	Harvard Medical School, USA
2015-16	Dr Christopher Jones	Harvard Medical School, USA
2015-16	Dr Thomas Shanahan	Johns Hopkins University, USA
2014-15	Dr Jack Helliwell	Yale School of Medicine, USA
2014-15	Dr Rini Vyas	Johns Hopkins University, USA
2013-14	Dr Kate Sutton	Genentech, California, USA
Funded by the University of Leeds Alumni Annual Fund
2011-12	Dr Jonathan Batty	Leicester (UK), Framingham (USA) and Harvard (USA)
2010-11	Dr Iain Kennedy	Sri Lanka
2009-10	Dr Nic Orsi	Harvard, USA