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Alessandro Conti BSc (Hons) MBBS MRCP

London,United Kingdom

Summary

A dedicated medical professional with expertise in acute internal medicine, diagnostics, medical education, and ethics. Strong interpersonal communication skills and adaptability in team settings. Proficient in research methodologies and the application of artificial intelligence in medicine, demonstrating a commitment to advancing healthcare innovation. Aspires to contribute to cutting-edge medical research and diagnostics while fostering collaborative environments for improved patient outcomes.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work history

Internal Medicine Trainee

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust
Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
08.2024 - Current
  • Company Overview: Royal Tunbridge Wells
  • Internal Medicine Trainee Physician at Tunbridge Wells Hospital. My rotations include acute internal medicine, geriatrics, cardiology, respiratory medicine, endocrinology and diabetes, intensive care medicine, and gastroenterology.

Associate Principal Investigator

National Institute for Health and Care Research
03.2025 - Current
  • I am the Associate Principal Investigator on the Optimising azithromycin prevention treatment in COPD to reduce exacerbations (OPACE) trial at Tunbridge Wells Hospital.
  • Roles include recruiting patients into the trial by confirming their eligibility and willingness to participate.
  • Developing advanced skills in managing NIHR-funded clinical trials while enhancing awareness of COPD research and improving patient outcomes.

Lead for Year 5 Bedside Teaching

Tunbridge Wells Hospital
09.2024 - 09.2025
  • Company Overview: Royal Tunbridge Wells
  • As the Lead for Year 5 Bedside Teaching, I coordinate eighteen doctors to deliver a weekly bedside teaching programme to final year medical students from King's College, St George's and Kent and Medway Medical Schools. I am deeply passionate about clinical education, seeing it as a vital tool for continuous improvement and motivation for both students and teachers.

BMJ Best Practice Clinical Champion

British Medical Journal Best Practice
10.2022 - 09.2025
  • Company Overview: London
  • As Clinical Champion for BMJ Best Practice, I promote the use of this leading evidence-based medical resource in the clinical environment and beyond. I also contribute to the development and improvement of BMJ Best Practice for future users.

Foundation Year 2 Doctor

Barking, Havering, and Redbridge University Hospitals
08.2023 - 08.2024
  • Company Overview: London
  • Foundation Year 2 Doctor rotating through Respiratory Medicine, Acute Internal Medicine, General Practice, and Emergency Medicine. Responsible for creating and delivering an online international teaching course aimed at medical students.

Junior Clinical Teaching Fellow

Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
08.2022 - 08.2023
  • Company Overview: London
  • I delivered evidence-based clinical teaching sessions on history taking and examination skills, as well as designing and leading a series of innovative, high fidelity simulation sessions, to third and fourth year medical students from Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry.

Foundation Year 1 Doctor

Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
08.2022 - 08.2023
  • Company Overview: London
  • Foundation Year 1 Doctor, rotating through General Adult Psychiatry, Acute Internal Medicine, Endocrinology and Diabetes, Trauma and Orthopaedics, and General Surgery.

Covid-19 Vaccinator and Vaccine Monitor

City and Hackney Clinical Commissioning Group
01.2021 - 03.2022
  • Company Overview: London
  • I have vaccinated more than 150 people against Covid-19. I have supervised and monitored the vaccination journey of 500 people across two sites in North London, while completing my fourth year at medical school. I am a fully trained vaccinator with the Oxford/AstraZeneca, Pfizer/BioNTech, and Moderna vaccines.

Junior Researcher

Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
Philadelphia, USA
06.2017 - 07.2017
  • Company Overview: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
  • I was selected to participate as Junior Researcher in the Research Mobility Programme from St George's, University of London. At Thomas Jefferson University I continued my undergraduate studies on microglia in neurodegenerative disease. I focused on the modulatory effects of interleukin-37 on resting and activated microglia.

Laboratory Assistant and Clinical Observer

Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, USA
07.2016 - 08.2016
  • Company Overview: Richmond, Virginia, USA
  • I worked as a Laboratory Assistant in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism at VCU Medical Center and participated as Clinical Observer in the outpatient department, seeing patients with a variety of endocrine and metabolic diseases.

Education

MRCP - Membership of the Royal College of Physicians of the United Kingdom

Royal College of Physicians of the United Kingdom
London
06.2025 -

Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) -

Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London
09.2017 - 07.2022

Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Science (BSc Hons) - undefined

St George's Hospital Medical School, University of London
09.2014 - 06.2017

Skills

  • Interpersonal communication skills
  • Teamwork and adaptability
  • Medical education
  • Medical diagnostics
  • Research methodologies
  • Artificial Intelligence in medicine
  • Advanced life support

LANGUAGES

English Native speaker
Italian Native speaker
Spanish Very good command
Arabic A1

Hobbies and Interests

Cooking, cycling, skiing, reading and writing.

Accomplishments

June 2025

Recipient of the Medical Scholarship by the British Association of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (BSACI) for my presentation Desensitisation Therapy in Food Pollen Allergy Syndrome: A Literature Review and Evidence Appraisal at the BSACI Annual Conference in Wales


May 2024

Poster Presentation at National Clinical Cases 2024, Society for
Endocrinology, Royal Society of Medicine
London

I presented a poster titled A case of undetected amiodarone induced thyrotoxicosis type 1 without a goitre at National Clinical Cases 2024, an event by the Society for Endocrinology held at the Royal Society of Medicine in London. I was sole author on this poster presentation.


March 2024

Oral Presentation at Clinical Update 2024 by the Society for
Endocrinology
Birmingham

I gave an oral presentation titled A case of primary aldosteronism with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and a horseshoe kidney, at the Clinical Update 2024, a national conference held by the Society for Endocrinology held at the Hilton Metropole Hotel, NEC, Birmingham, UK. I was the presenting author. My co-authors were Professor William Drake and Dr Emily Goodchild.


July 2022

National Foundation Merit Award London

I was awarded the coveted National Foundation Trainee Merit Award in Quality Improvement for developing an innovative series of simulation based teaching sessions for third year medical students, alongside regular class and bedside teaching as Junior Clinical Teaching Fellow.


May 2023

Publication in Endocrine Abstracts London

My abstract Hypercalcaemia and delusions of blood poisoning: a parathyroid adenoma refractory to ultrasound-guided ethanol ablation was published in Endocrine Abstracts, an online journal by bioscentifica (DOI: 10.1530/endoabs.91.P14).


March 2023

Poster Presentation at National Clinical Cases, Society for
Endocrinology, Royal Society of Medicine
London

I presented a poster on a case of refractory hypercalcaemia, Hypercalcaemia and delusions of blood poisoning: a parathyroid adenoma refractory to ultrasound-guided ethanol ablation, at National Clinical Cases, an event by the Society for Endocrinology held at the Royal Society of Medicine in London. My poster was short-listed for a prize by the Royal Society of Medicine.


May 2022

Case Presentations at Regional Endocrinology Meetings, St Bartholomew's Hospital

I gave two presentations, for which I was given a certificate by Professor William M. Drake:

  • A case of pituitary macroadenoma presenting as panhypopituitarism after pituitary apoplexy.
  • A case of Cushing's disease demonstrated with inferior petrosal sinus sampling.

London


2022

Student Enhanced Engagement and Development Award, Queen
Mary University of London
London, UK

I received this award from Queen Mary University of London for my contribution to Vaccine Hesitancy, an online resource aimed at medical students to tackle Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy in the United Kingdom. Supervised by Professor Graham Easton and Dr Aayushi Gupta.


2021

Quarter Finalist in the 2021 ClinicalKey Global Student Challenge London, UK

I reached the quarter finals of the ClinicalKey Global Student Challenge, organised by Elsevier. This Challenge brings together more than 7500 students from 100 countries to compete in four rounds of questions testing the breadth of their medical knowledge.


2021

Certificate of Commendation, Moorfields Eye Hospital London, UK

I received a Certificate of Commendation from Moorfields Eye Hospital for my essay Peripheral Visions: A Personal Reflection on Ocular Chemical Injury, which was judged as an "excellent submission" to the Ocular Chemical Injury Symposium Essay Competition.


2020

Runner Up in the British Association of Stroke Physicians Student
Essay Prize
London, UK

I won second place in the 2020 British Association of Stroke Physicians (BASP) Student Essay Prize for an essay on the concepts of time and individuality in the management of associative visual agnosia. My essay was published on the BASP website and members newsletter.


2017

Best Dissection Project of the Year, St George's Hospital Medical School London, UK

The Best Dissection of the Year Prize at St George's dates back to Henry Gray, author of Gray's Anatomy, who won it in 1845 ca. I won it for a right leg and foot dissection specimen in 2017. This was my course project as part of Images of Anatomy, a final year module in my Bachelor's Degree at St George's, supervised by Mr Philip Adds.

Timeline

MRCP - Membership of the Royal College of Physicians of the United Kingdom

Royal College of Physicians of the United Kingdom
06.2025 -

Associate Principal Investigator

National Institute for Health and Care Research
03.2025 - Current

Lead for Year 5 Bedside Teaching

Tunbridge Wells Hospital
09.2024 - 09.2025

Internal Medicine Trainee

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust
08.2024 - Current

Foundation Year 2 Doctor

Barking, Havering, and Redbridge University Hospitals
08.2023 - 08.2024

BMJ Best Practice Clinical Champion

British Medical Journal Best Practice
10.2022 - 09.2025

Junior Clinical Teaching Fellow

Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
08.2022 - 08.2023

Foundation Year 1 Doctor

Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
08.2022 - 08.2023

Covid-19 Vaccinator and Vaccine Monitor

City and Hackney Clinical Commissioning Group
01.2021 - 03.2022

Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) -

Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London
09.2017 - 07.2022

Junior Researcher

Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
06.2017 - 07.2017

Laboratory Assistant and Clinical Observer

Virginia Commonwealth University
07.2016 - 08.2016

Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Science (BSc Hons) - undefined

St George's Hospital Medical School, University of London
09.2014 - 06.2017
Alessandro Conti BSc (Hons) MBBS MRCP