Professor Victoria Tzortziou Brown OBE

President of Council

Prof Victoria Tzortziou Brown is the President of RCGP Council and an ex officio member of the RCGP's Trustee Board. She has been an East London GP for over 20 years, and has worked across health and social care, academia and with communities. She has worked towards identifying innovative solutions for improving health and care services and narrowing health inequalities. 

 

She combines research and extensive clinical commissioning experience. She is currently the Research and Innovation lead of North East London Integrated Care System, which serves around two million people. She collaborates with NHS, public health, academic and VCSE partners towards increasing engagement in research and innovation. 

 

Victoria has served as the College's Vice Chair External Affairs, Honorary Secretary and RCGP London Faculties Chair, and more recently has co-chaired the RCGP`s Health Inequalities Standing Group. She is a Founding Senior Fellow of the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management and a non-executive director at Turning Point, with an OBE for her services in general practice.  

 

In her academic role at the Wolfson Institute of Population Health, Queen Mary University of London, Victoria undertakes health policy and systems research. She has a particular focus on the design and evaluation of healthcare interventions and impact on professional behaviour and health inequalities. She also supervises GP Academic Clinical Fellows and early career researchers in Global Health.


Speakers have declared that, except for the actual or potential conflicts of interest detailed below, their involvement in this educational activity does not involve any conflict of interest.


Professor Victoria Tzortziou Brown OBE: Renumerated employment: GP in Tower Hamlets, east London, Professor in Primary Care and Health Policy, Wolfson Institute of Population Health, Queen Mary University of London


GP with an extended role in musculoskeletal conditions, Barts Health NHS Trust, NE London ICB Research and Innovation Lead Chair at the Royal College of General Practitioners.


Renumerated ad hoc work: GP Appraiser, east London


Renumerated directorships: Non Executive Director at Turning Point


Research, patents and intellectual property: Research funded by NIHR and by ArthritisUK in the past.


Membership of formal groups/organisations: Academy of Medical Royal Colleges board member and Vice Chair, BMA member, FSEM member and Council member, SAPC member and Executive Board

member, Senior Founding Fellow of Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management, Board member of UK Health Alliance on Climate Change.


Non-remunerated directorships and trustee positions: I have been a trustee of the RCGP (2017-2021). I have also been a Director and Trustee at Health Quality Improvement


Partnership (HQIP) (2015-2022).