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Harold Moody Lecture 2025/26

New Hunt’s House, Guy’s Campus, London

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The Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine is proud to host the 2025/2026 Harold Moody Lecture, an evening celebrating the legacy of the great Black Briton Dr Harold Moody.

A Jamaican-born medical student at King's, Moody graduated top of his class in 1910. He became a much-respected GP in Peckham and founded Britain's first civil rights movement.

The Harold Moody lecture series was created as an annual event to platform and celebrate King’s diverse alumni and current academic staff and champion race equality.

Theme

For 2025/2026, the theme will be Black Excellence, with a focus on recognising the achievements, impact, and lived experiences of black academics, alumni, and students across disciplines.

The event will feature a series of individual speaker presentations, each offering personal insights, professional experiences, and reflections on the theme. 

Keynote Speakers

Dr Jacqueline Matthews

Dr Jacqueline Matthews 

Jacqueline is a clinical academic, sonographer, and MedTech entrepreneur with a passion for improving pregnancy care through compassionate innovation. Her passion centres around technology that can make healthcare work better for both patients and providers.

For over 20 years, Jacqueline has worked extensively in ultrasound scanning and fetal MRI, focusing on advanced imaging modalities to enhance screening, diagnosis and care, particularly for pregnant women.
Jacqueline completed a PhD in advanced 3D ultrasound and fetal MRI, using machine learning tools to enhance diagnostic pathways. As Clinical Lead and Chief Medical Officer at an early-stage health tech startup, she played a key role in strategic product management and development, helping shape a real-time AI pregnancy ultrasound platform that changes the way we scan improving medical diagnoses, empowering healthcare professionals, and enhancing care for patients.

Jacqueline was recently named as one of the inaugural winners of the CAHPO (Chief Allied Health Professions Officer) Gold Award for Excellence, an accolade that celebrates health professionals who have made exceptional contributions to healthcare, embodying NHS values and demonstrating unwavering dedication to their roles.

Pettiann Bhoorasingh

Pettiann Bhoorasingh

Pettiann Bhoorasingh is a medical student currently intercalating in Public Health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. As former Head of Wellbeing for the African Caribbean Medical Society, she’s passionate about reimagining healthcare through the lenses of equity, culture, and community. Her award-winning work on patient leadership in medical education has been presented nationally and internationally, and she was recently selected as an Aggrey Burke Fellow (2025–2027) with the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Combining clinical insight with public health ambition, Pettiann is driven by a vision of healthcare that’s inclusive, empowering, and people centred. 

Dr Jermaine Wright

Dr Jermaine Wright

Dr Jermaine Wright is a Specialist Registrar in Cardiology, an educator, and a NHS leader based at St Bartholomew’s Hospital in London. He is completing advanced subspecialty training in heart failure and cardiac devices. He has a keen interest in the management of acutely unwell patients which is complemented by his role as a Medical Course Director for the Resuscitation Council UK.

Jermaine recently served as Chief Registrar at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, where he led a multi-year Resident Doctor Improvement Project aligned with the NHS “Improving the Working Lives of Doctors in Training” plan. His leadership has been recognised through multiple awards and Fellowship of the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management.

A graduate of King’s College London’s Extended Medical Degree Programme, Jermaine is passionate about widening participation and regularly speaks to inspire students from underrepresented backgrounds. His contributions have been recognised through being granted the Freedom of the City of London and membership of the prestigious Worshipful Company of Barber-Surgeons. He holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Education and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in this field.

Outside of medicine, Jermaine is passionate about dance, health and wellbeing, and travel. He firmly believes that leadership in medicine should reflect the diversity of the communities it serves. 

Agenda:

17:30 – 17:40 Introduction from leadership
17:40-19:20 Keynote speakers
  17:40-18:10 Jacqueline Matthew
  18:10- 18:40 Pettiann Bhoorasingh
  18:40-19:10 Jermaine Wright
19:10-19:20 Closing remarks by leadership
19:20-20:30 Drinks reception and networking event

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