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Previous Fellowship Ceremonies

Find out about our previous Fellowship Ceremonies and see a selection of photos of our new Fellows.

Previous ceremonies

21 April, 28 May, 2 June, and 11 June 2026

In 2026 we held three ceremonies at Prescot Street to welcome new Fellows to the College. We also welcomed new Fellows at our ceremony in Edinburgh on 2 June. In total we presented 105 new Fellows at the ceremonies.

Attendees traveled from across the country and the world to celebrate the achievements of our newest Fellows. Guests were welcomed by a speech from our President Dr Lade Smith CBE in praise of everyone's successes. 11 June was Lade's last ceremony as President.

The attendees in 2026 were:

21 April	28 May	11 June
Dr Michael Achor	Dr Oluwaseun Adebambo	Dr Asfar Ali Afridi
Dr Adedayo Ayokunu Alabi	Dr Maryam Afzal	Dr Abdelaal Ahmed
Dr Alvina Athar Ali	Dr Tim Alnuamaani	Dr Mohammed Amir Ahmed
Dr Barbara Arroyo Cos	Professor Dina Aly	Dr Ibrahim Alotaibi
Dr Anike Taiye Atigari	Dr Katina Anagnostakis	Dr Caroline Ardron
Dr Padmaja Chalasani	Dr Bushra Azam	Dr Benson Moses Benjamin
Dr Rahul Vivek Chandavarkar	Dr Suresh Bhoskar	Dr Victoria Chapman
Dr Mary Cosgrave	Dr Joanne Butler	Dr Lucy Colbourne
Dr Ibikunle Moshood Dabiri	Dr Deniz Cerci	Dr David Denton
Dr Sophie Dominique Florence Dechene	Dr Man Lui Chan	Dr Sabina Dosani
Dr Brian Douglas	Dr Timothy Chan	Dr Shyamasree Dutta
Dr Julius Essem	Dr Hussien Elkholy	Dr Marjan Ghazirad
Dr Muhammad Arshad Faridi	Dr Anthony Dermot Gahan	Dr Soha Gouda
Dr Farha Ghazal	Dr Lena Huins	Dr Anna Graham
Dr Raymond Goggins	Dr Farida Jan	Dr Faye Graver
Dr Surya Goudaman	Dr Rakesh John	Dr Bianca Igna
Dr Lanka Gunasekara	Dr Daljeet Kaur	Dr Vyasa Immadisetty
Dr Rudresh Hanabe Paramasivaiah	Dr Altaf Nissar Khoja	Dr Ferdinand Jonsson
Dr Duncan Harding	Dr Haroula Konstantinidou	Dr Mohinder Preet Kapoor
Dr Khaled Helmy	Dr Tracey Louise Myton	Dr Maryam Saeed Khan
Professor Max Henderson	Dr Chinedu Maxwell Onwuemena	Dr Azmathulla Khan Hameed
Dr Muzaffer Kaser	Dr Rakhi Oyewole	Dr Dinesh Kumar
Dr Mohammad Zia Ul Haq Katshu	Dr Chhaya Pandit	Dr Christiana Lewis
Dr Maura Killoughery	Dr Parvathy Pillay	Dr Peter Marshall
Dr Mas Mahady	Dr Georgy Pius	Dr Sobia Nasim
Dr Christoph Mueller	Dr Neha Rawat	Dr Pey-Chyou Pan
Dr Jasna Munjiza	Dr Sajjad Sadiq	Dr Jayalakshmi Ramachandran
Dr Raja Natarajan	Dr Bini Thomas	Dr Mohammad Amir Rather
Dr Anthony Njoku	Dr Victor Romare Tukpe	Dr Zoe Williams
Dr Lilian Osayemwenre Obakpolo	Dr Baljit Upadhyay	Dr Mehboob Yaqub
Dr Angela O'Brien
Dr Oritseweyinmi Oshodi
Dr Annabel Price	2 June
Dr Beena Rajkumar	Dr Enquan Cheow
Dr Abhay Rathore	Surgeon Commander James Harrison
Dr Mark Salter	Dr Chetana Patil
Dr John Stevens	Dr Swanand Patwardhan
Dr Gary Wannan	Dr Pavan Srireddy

8 May, 29 May and 11 June 2025

In 2025 we held three ceremonies to welcome new Fellows to the College. In total we presented 87 new Fellows at the ceremonies.

Attendees traveled from across the country and the world to celebrate the achievements of our newest Fellows. Guests were welcomed by a heartfelt speech from our President Dr Lade Smith CBE in praise of everyone's successes.

The attendees in 2025 were:

8 May	29 May	11 June
Dr Akinade Adebowale	Dr Hooria Ahmad	Dr Maqsood Ahmad
Dr Olubunmi Adebowale	Dr Wakil Ahmed	Dr Sandeep Bansal
Dr Hezekiah Agboji	Dr Chandan Aladakatti	Dr Mohan Bhat
Dr Shaharyar Alikhan	Dr Aneeba Anwar	Dr Rahul Bhattacharya
Dr Hasanen Al-Taiar	Dr Jennifer Bearn	Dr Anirban Bhowmick
Dr Amitabha Chatterjee	Dr Shivaram Chikkatagaiah	Dr Adib Essali
Dr Erica Cini	Dr Kiran Chitale	Dr Muhammad Mudasir Firdosi
Dr John Crosby	Dr Romayne Gadelrab	Dr Marcella Lei-Yee Fok
Dr Aarohee Desai-Gupta	Dr Yasir Hameed	Dr Rahat Ghafoor
Dr Nasser El Hindy	Dr Mandip Jheeta	Dr Mike Groves
Dr Adedamola Adeola Fasehun	Dr Akim Kassim	Dr Colin Hemmings
Dr Asanga Fernando	Dr Malcolm Henry Kinnear	Dr James Herdman
Dr Rina Gupta	Dr Vasudevan Krishnan	Dr Marguerite Horgan
Dr Peter Heinl	Dr Ali Mesam Mehdi	Dr Mokhtar Isaac
Dr Declan Hyland	Dr Bosky Nair	Dr Chrishanthy Jayarajah
Dr Anupama Iyer	Dr Afifa Qazi	Dr Ihsan Kader
Dr Waqqas Khokhar	Dr Muhammad Rehman	Dr Nikola Kern
Dr Lucja Kolkiewicz	Dr Ricardo Sainz Fuertes	Dr Rummana Khan
Dr Evelyn McCabe	Dr Rani Samuel	Dr Shankar Srinivas Kuchibatla
Dr Aneesa Mohamad Ali	Dr Reena Sani	Dr Livia Martucci
Dr Ayodeji Morah	Dr Tanushree Sarma	Dr Ewa Okon-Rocha
Dr Chiedu Obuaya	Dr Sophia Senthil	Dr Judith O'Neill
Dr Nneka Orakwue-Ononye	Dr Hadi Shaker Naeeni	Dr Annie Swanepoel
Dr Basavaraja Papanna	Dr Sushma Sundaresh	Dr Anney Varghese
Dr Ashish Pathak	Dr Rachel Taylor East
Dr Anto Praveen Rajkumar Rajamani	Dr Edwin Ugoh
Dr Navneet (Neeti) Sandhu	Dr Sophia Ulhaq
Dr (Maung) Kyaw Sein
Dr Farshad Shaddel
Dr Aladdin Shirazi
Dr Oluwatoyin Sorinmade
Dr Julian Summerfield
Dr Laura Sutherland
Dr Rachel Voller
Dr Huw Williams

6 and 12 June 2024

In June 2024 we held two ceremonies for Fellows who were elected in 2023 or earlier.

In total, we welcomed 83 new Fellows, 49 on 6 June and 34 on 12 June.

Attendees were welcomed with speeches from President Dr Lade Smith CBE and Chief Executive Sonia Walter who celebrated the achievements of our new Fellows.

The Fellows presented in June 2024 were:

Dr Emma Abbey	Dr Sarfaraz Aslam Shora
Dr Ankur Agarwal	Dr Shaheen Aslam Shora
Dr Hina Agha	Dr Anees-Ul-Haq Syed
Dr Oghenevwoke Akpubi	Dr Simon Taylor
Dr Alice Ashby	Dr Cleo Van Velsen
Dr Iyas Assalman	Dr Chung Hin Willy Wong
Dr Lisa Blissitt	Dr Mohammad Tayeem Pathan
Dr Marisa Casanova Dias
Dr Preeti Chhabra	Dr Rasha Abbas
Dr Rachael Cullivan Elliott	Dr Adeola Akinola
Dr Nicola Curtis	Dr Lucy Allsopp
Dr Soumitra Shankar Datta	Dr Ana Maria Almaraz Serrano
Dr Claire Dillon	Dr Sophia Anwar
Dr Jessica Eccles	Dr Saadia Arshad
Dr Rafael Gafoor	Dr Tuoyo Awani
Dr Praveen Gandamaneni	Dr Reenee Barton
Dr Rachna Gurtu Bansal	Dr Klaus Martin Beckmann
Dr Abrar Hussain	Dr Ahmed Babatunde Bello
Dr Josie Jenkinson	Dr Rani Bora
Dr Khaled Kadry	Dr Wan Lian Chua
Dr Sen Kallumpuram	Dr Meryl Dahlitz
Dr Sushanth Kamath	Dr Himanshu Garg
Dr Ba Min Ko	Dr Natasha Gupta
Dr Anil Kodagalli	Dr Muhammad Adnan Hafeez
Dr Manonmani Manoharan	Dr Suhaib Bin Bilal Hafi
Dr Páll Matthíasson	Dr Jide Igboekwu
Dr Sara McDevitt	Dr Pablo Jeczmien
Dr Darren Minshall	Dr Senthil Kumar
Dr Rittick Mukherjee	Dr Saqib Latif
Dr Catherine Muyeba	Dr Naghma Malik
Dr Balamurugan Nambi	Dr Omer Malik
Dr Sheeba Ninan	Dr Fiona McDowall
Dr Jibowu Olubokun	Dr Mehdi Mirkhani
Dr Prajakta Patil	Dr Paula Murphy
Dr Hayley Ponsford	Dr Sarmad Nadeem
Dr Parashar Ramanuj	Dr Ambreen Naz
Dr Guy Roberts	Professor Dheeraj Rai
Dr Howard Ryland	Dr Prem Rai
Dr Fareeha Amber Sadiq	Dr Sunita Sahu
Dr Siraj Salahudeen	Dr Muhammad Saleem Khan Tareen
Dr Samir Shah	Dr Nicholas Taylor
Dr Gaurav Sharma	Dr Nuruz Zaman

1 and 8 June 2023

In June we held two ceremonies for Fellows who were elected in 2022.

We welcomed 27 new Fellows on 1 June and 17 on 8 June. We also awarded Honorary Fellowship to Professor Dame Helen Stokes-Lampard at the ceremony on 8 June.

Attendees were welcomed with speeches from President Dr Adrian James and Chief Executive Paul Rees MBE.

The Fellows presented in June were:

Dr Rais Irfan Ahmed	Dr Prakash Shankar
Dr Saminathan Anand	Dr Sandip Talukdar
Dr Gurleen Bhatia	Dr Vasudevan Vaidikan Thaikkattu Namboodiri
Professor Sharmi Bhattacharyya	Dr Anusha Wijeratne
Dr Vishwa Pradeep Nagesh Boddana
Dr Nina Champaneri
Dr Sathya Cherukuri	Dr Ted Agadagba
Dr Mosunmola Fapohunda	Dr Danilo Arnone
Dr Partha Gangopadhyay	Dr Rinki Banerjee
Dr Abhishek Goli	Dr Devika Colwill
Dr Miriam Isaac	Dr Walter Enudi
Dr Mandy Johnstone	Dr Harsha Gopisetty
Professor Nilamadhab Kar	Dr Sepehr Hafizi
Dr Chetan Bangra Kuloor	Dr Kedar Kale
Dr Saadia Muzaffar	Professor Catherine Kinane
Dr Chinwe Obinwa	Dr Swapna Kongara
Dr Aparna Prasanna	Dr Raphael Mayone
Dr Mohtasim Qamruddin	Dr Hamid Rahmanian
Dr Naresh Rasquinha	Dr Ann Ryman
Dr Khurram Sadiq	Dr Padakkara Saju
Dr Aamer Sajjad	Professor Kapil Sayal
Dr David Sansom	Dr Liz Searle
Dr Indermeet Sawhney	Dr Nu Nu Yi

2 March and 13 April 2023

We held ceremonies in March and April for those Fellows who were elected in 2020 and whose ceremonies in 2021 unfortunately couldn't take place due to the pandemic.

We celebrated 21 new Fellows on 2 March and 11 on 13 April. We also welcomed Professor Kam Bhui as a new Honorary Fellow at the ceremony on 13 April. Attendees, who'd travelled from across the country and from around the world, were welcomed by President Dr Adrian James and Chief Executive Paul Rees MBE.

The Fellows we welcomed at these ceremonies were:

Dr Mohamed Abdelghani	Dr Manouri Senaratne
Dr Bijil Simon Arackal	Dr Harriet Stewart
Dr Cecilia Batten	Dr Micheline Tremblay
Dr Mridul Biswas	Dr Pauline Twomey
Dr Richard Church
Dr Anke Conway Morris
Dr Samaa El Abd	Dr Richard Bunn
Dr Graeme Feggetter	Dr Jennifer Evelyn Ford
Dr Kehinde Junaid	Dr Julia Gledhill
Professor Farooq Khan	Dr Ashwani Kapila
Dr Pallab Majumder	Dr Richelle Maria Kirrane
Dr Marc Mandell	Dr Annie McCloud
Dr Ehab Morgan	Dr Clare Paula McLorinan
Dr Kamalika Mukherji	Dr Sandra Metcalfe
Dr Niamh Mulryan	Dr Atiqa Rafiq
Dr Anna Neilson-Williams	Dr Bennett Sikabofori
Dr Christopher Pell	Dr Sekharan Jaisoorya Thiruppadikkal

16 and 23 February 2023

Our February ceremonies welcomed those who were elected as Fellows of the College in 2019 and whose Fellowship ceremonies in 2020 were unfortunately postponed during the pandemic.

We welcomed 15 Fellows on 16 February and 17 Fellows on 23 February. Fellows travelled from across the country and from around the world to attend the ceremonies. Attendees heard speeches from President Dr Adrian James and Chief Executive Paul Rees MBE.

The following Fellows were welcomed at these ceremonies:

Dr Yasir Abbasi	Dr Mohammed Al-Rawi
Dr Karim Ali Abdel Aziz	Dr Fabida Aria
Dr Magdi Ishag Ahmed	Dr Malarvizhy Baheerathan
Dr Asif Bachlani	Dr Sarmishtha Chakrabarti
Dr Daniel Bennett	Dr Panchajanya Ghatak
Dr Neel Halder	Dr Jose Igoa
Dr Charlotte Illingworth	Dr Pavan Joshi
Dr Dilum Jayawickrama	Dr Raafat Samir Labib Mishriky
Dr Kandarp Joshi	Dr Amulya Nadkarni
Professor Aftab Alam Khan	Dr Rajesh Nehete
Dr Asad Yaqub Malik	Dr John Oguntade
Dr Laura Mannion	Dr Bhathika Perera
Professor Tarik Qassem Mohammad	Dr Sujaa Mary Rajagopal Arokiadass
Dr Derrett Watts	Dr Prakash Raviraj
Dr Sobhi Yagoub	Dr Simmi Sachdeva-Mohan
	Dr Sivasubramaniam Srikumar
	Dr Jon Van Niekerk