Specialty: Acute Medicine

MBBC, BSc, MSc, MRCP(UK)

Dr Powell was appointed as Consultant in Acute and Stroke Medicine in January 2011. After training at St George’s Hospital medical school she has worked throughout the south completing registrar training in General Internal Medicine, Geriatric and Stroke Medicine. She also holds a Master’s degree in Gerontology from King’s College, London.

She is responsible for acute admissions to the Acute Medical Unit and in-patient care of patients on Capel ward in her capacity as Lead for Acute Geriatric care. She also works in Stroke Medicine co-running the TIA service and also working as a Telestroke Consultant covering five acute hospital Trusts out of hours for Stroke care. She is also Associate Chief of patient safety for Medicine.

Her special interests are in the acute medical care of older people, medical leadership and teaching and she currently holds Honorary Senior Lecturer titles at both St George’s Hospital, University of London and Brighton and Sussex Medical School; our associated teaching hospital.