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Dr Dipesh Gopal, MRCGP MRes

Dipesh

Primary Care Clinicians Career Progression Fellow

Email: d.gopal@qmul.ac.uk

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I am a GP and a NIHR School for Primary Care Research (SPCR) pre-PhD researcher looking at the link between cancer recurrence and health inequalities, in the Centre for Primary Care.

During my combined GP and academic training at QMUL as an academic clinical fellow, I assisted on a meta-ethnography on the Survivors’ Rehabilitation Evaluation After Cancer (SURECAN) programme grant worth £2.7 million. As well as this, I was the Chair of the organising committee of the Health Education England London GP trainee conference 2017-2018.

Soon after this, I was awarded the NIHR In-Practice Fellowship where I examined the effectiveness of financial incentivised supportive conversations in cancer in primary care, called ‘cancer care reviews’. For this work, I was awarded a Master’s in Clinical Health Research from the University of Birmingham. During this time, I was a co-applicant on the NIHR Research for Patient Benefit Programme grant examining the impact of Long COVID on people from ethnic minority backgrounds: ‘Hearing from the unheard: impact of Long Covid in Black and minority ethnic groups in the UK’ (HI-COVE study).

I am currently a committee member of the Primary Academic CollaboraTive (PACT) which aims to promote ‘grassroots’ primary care research. I was one of the initial founding committee members in 2019, acting as social media lead. In 2021, I was awarded honorary membership of the Medical Women’s Federation and was asked to give the opening keynote address to International Association for Health Professions Education (AMEE) entitled "Unravelling the threads of race, racism and medicine".

Feel free to connect with me here: https://linktr.ee/dipeshgopal

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