A Lanarkshire well being board has made a brand new appointment for a key position.
Dr Mark Russell has been appointed because the Medical Director for South Lanarkshire Well being and Social Care Partnership.
The position will see Dr Russell take accountability for bettering well being and wellbeing in native communities
Soumen Sengupta, Director of Well being and Social Take care of South Lanarkshire, mentioned “I'm actually happy to welcome Mark into his new position inside the senior management groups of South Lanarkshire Well being and Social Care Partnership and NHS Lanarkshire. Mark is a extremely revered clinician who brings a wealth of experience and a palpable drive to this key place.
“I'm trying ahead to the numerous contribution that I do know that he'll make as he builds on the substantial management supplied by our outgoing Medical Director, Dr Linda Findlay.”
Mark mentioned: “I’m delighted to be the brand new Medical Director for South Lanarkshire Well being and Social Care Partnership.
"I’ve been the Affiliate Medical Director for Well being and Social Care North Lanarkshire since 2020 which has enabled me to forge sturdy working relationships with colleagues throughout Lanarkshire’s well being and care system.
“I'm very a lot trying ahead to becoming a member of what I do know is a really dynamic crew in South Lanarkshire, in addition to working constructively with normal practices, dentists, neighborhood pharmacists and optometrists in my new position.”
Mark graduated from Glasgow College in 2004 and certified as a GP in 2009. He has labored clinically in NHS Lanarkshire ever since, firstly in practices in Motherwell and Airdrie for ten years after which as Affiliate Medical Director for Well being and Social Care North Lanarkshire.
He has additionally beforehand labored in NHS Training for Scotland as a Analysis and Growth Fellow, and has an ongoing curiosity in well being inequalities, and training and coaching sparked by this publish.
He was key within the creation and supply of the covid-19 vaccination programme through the pandemic and continues to supply medical enter. This was the most important vaccination programme ever undertaken in Lanarkshire.
Mark lives in Lanarkshire and out of doors of labor enjoys spending time along with his spouse and three younger youngsters.
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