Aneez_Esmail
Aneez Esmail is a general practitioner and academic at the University of Manchester. He is a professor of general practice[1] and a GP for three sessions a week. Between 2012 and 2017 he served as the director of the National Institute for Health Research's (NIHR) research centre on patient safety in primary care.[2] He is well known for his work over many years on racism in the British National Health Service. He has chaired a wide-ranging review of all postgraduate medical exams. He was medical adviser to the Shipman Inquiry.[3] He was offered an OBE for his contribution to primary care and race relations in 2002, but declined it.[4]
Esmail is a British Asian, having previously lived in East Africa. He is the first British Asian to ever hold an executive position at a UK Russell Group University.