John Illman - Chairman

John Illman spent eight years as The Guardian's Health Editor and five years as the Daily Mail's medical correspondent. A former GP editor, he is now lecturing, writing a series of books and has set up a video production company. His publications include The Body Machine with the heart transplant pioneer Christiaan Barnard. 

Oliver Gillie - Vice Chair

Oliver Gillie BSc PhD has won many awards for his journalism. He was medical correspondent of the Sunday Times and medical editor of the Independent. He now works as director of Health Research Forum which is concerned with research and policy on vitamin D, sunlight and health. 68 Whitehall Park, London N19 3TN; Phone: ++44 20 7561 9677; Mobile: 07774 995 805; Email: olivergillie@blueyonder.co.uk

Philippa Pigache - Honorary Secretary

Philippa Pigache is honorary secretary of the MJA and editor of the journal,  MJA News. Her journalism has covered everything except crime and sport over the past 35 years, and she also writes books, plays and short stories. She has been on local newspapers, women’s magazines, national newspapers, radio and television, including the Sunday Times, Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, The Guardian, ITN and BBC science features. She was quiz-queen for Cosmopolitan, an agony auntie for Woman’s Realm, and more recently has specialized in health and medical science for professional readers. She has published several general readership books on medical conditions and health. She has won awards for her medical journalism, her books and also for her fiction.

Contact details: Fairfield, Cross in Hand, Heathfield, E. Sussex TN21 0SH; Telephone 01435 868786; Email: secretary@mja-uk.org

Brandon Broll - Honorary Webmaster

Brandon Broll is an award winning freelance medical and science journalist and author. He has written for the national press in South Africa and Britain, as well as for the Reader's Digest and National Geographic. He is web editor at Science Photo Library.

Ray Stanbridge - Honorary Treasurer

Contact details: Adam Parker c/o Ray Stanbridge, Stanbridge Associates Ltd., 94 West Parade, Lincoln LN1 1JZ. Telephone: 01522 546606 and 01522 540925. Email: aparker@stanbridgeaccountants.co.uk & raystanbridge@stanbridgeaccountants.co.uk

Maya Anaokar - Membership Secretary

Dr Maya Anaokar is an experienced medical reporter, formerly science editor on Doctor and Hospital Doctor. She has freelanced since 2006 after six years in ethical public relations. Dr Anaokar has work published in consumer, trade and scientific journals.

Contact details: Maya Anaokar, 54 Overton Drive, London E11 2NJ. Email: mayaanaokar@hotmail.com

Deanna Wilson - Events

Ashley McKimm - Juniors organiser

Ashley McKimm (junior doctor and journalist) qualified in 2003; currently works part-time in psychiatry with a special interest in addictions; completed a degree in medical journalism and founded JuniorDr magazine – the UK's largest free distribution magazine for doctors up to consultant level – and the journal Trauma. He has written books and freelances for consumer and trade press.

Rachel Vrettos - Awards Organiser

David Delvin

David Delvin is a doctor, writer and broadcaster. He has been awarded La Medaille de la Ville de Paris by Jacques Chirac (echelon argent).

Gil Myers

Colin Brennan

Clare Dover

Nicola Hill

Susan Mayor

Alex Shand

Robert Short

Birte Twisselmann