Jane Dacre: Heavily indebted to Barty

Biography

Jane Dacre, 59, was elected president of the Royal College of Physicians in April 2014 and took office three months later. She is director of University College London Medical School and a consultant in rheumatology at the Whittington Hospital in north London. She sees her mission as empowering physicians by restating the care values of the profession and encouraging positive leadership. She wants to bring more young people from minority backgrounds into medicine and fears that too much whingeing about how awful the job is may be putting them off. “It’s actually a brilliant profession,” she says.