Clare Gerada MBE, FRCP, FRCGP, MRCPsych

Clare studied medicine at University College London, qualifying in 1982. She trained in medicine, then psychiatry and then followed her father’s foot steps and became a general practitioner in South London, where she has stayed ever since. The practice started life in 1969 – and remains on its current site – on the ground floor of a 19-storey housing estate in Lambeth. The practice has now expanded becoming one the largest GP group practices in London.

Her training in psychiatry led her to a life-long interest in managing drug users – and she in fact represented the Department of Health (England) advising the Maltese Government on their drug policy.