Tahmina Hussain MSc CSci FIBMS SFHEA

IBMS Council Member, Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Science and Programme Lead: Applied Biomedical Science Degree Apprenticeship, University of Salford

Tahmina is the Deputy Programme Lead for the Biomedical Science Apprenticeship Degree and a Lecturer in Biomedical Science at the University of Salford. Her career as a Biomedical Scientist began in 2009 and has since specialised in Haematology and Blood Transfusion and then worked through a number of roles such as Biomedical Scientist Team Manager, Blood Sciences Training Officer and Pathology Training Coordinator. Tahmina is an IBMS verifier and examiner for registration and specialist portfolios and a module lead for the IBMS Certificate of Expert Practice in Training Qualification. Tahmina is also an IBMS national Council member.

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Debra Padgett FIBMS CSci

Clinical Pathology Lead, Lead Healthcare Scientist

Debra is passionate about promoting and recognising excellence in all IBMS members. In her eight years as an IBMS Council member, she has advocated, listened, represented and addressed the issues that are most important to our membership at national, regional and local levels.

Debra started her career as a Medical Laboratory Assistant in Microbiology and has successfully worked her way through the career grades to her current role as Clinical Pathology Lead at Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. This means that she understands the many routes to achieve a senior management position within our profession, and how management decisions affect every member of the laboratory.

Her post encompasses provision of leadership and management with accountability for the delivery of cost effective, high quality, safe and sustainable services across the Northumbria health economy. These responsibilities give her a strategic insight to deliver operational priorities both for her own Trust and those of National programmes.