Dr Mariam Akinpeju-Adebayo
Mariam Akinpeju-Adebayo is a GP Registrar in East of England and serves as a Trainee Representative for her local GP training scheme. Mariam completed her medical degree at King’s College London in 2013, having undertaken an intercalated BSc in Management at Imperial College London. She completed her Foundation Training in the West Yorkshire deanery, where she was introduced to concepts of quality improvement as well as the FMLM. Mariam went on to serve as the Foundation Trainee Representative in her second year.
Mariam took time out of training to work as a quality improvement project manager at a chain of primary care clinics in Lagos, Nigeria. During this time, she completed the Edward Jenner Programme and achieved the NHS Leadership Academy Award in Leadership Foundations. Mariam also completed the Basic Certificate in Quality and Safety from the Institute of Health Improvement and undertook management training in the Lean Six Sigma approach.
During her foundation years, her time working abroad and her GP training so far, Mariam has carried out several audits and led department-wide quality improvement projects, which she has presented at local clinical governance meetings, published in online journals, and presented posters at national conferences, most notably the Leaders in Healthcare Conference 2016 and the RCOG World Congress 2019.
More recently, Mariam completed the Next Generation GP Emerging Leaders Programme (Essex/Herts/Suffolk cohort) in 2021 and also graduated with an MSc in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Reason for applying for the scheme
Mariam looks forward to her role as an NHS Regional Clinical Leadership Fellow, as this serves as an opportunity to apply the knowledge from her postgraduate studies and to gain valuable insight and hands-on experience in collaborative multidisciplinary projects that address regional and national priorities. At this critical time of transition within primary care, Mariam hopes to build her understanding of the new NHS organisational structures and develop her competencies in change management, policy and strategy formulation and healthcare transformation. Mariam is also keen to work on projects that can deliver improvements to targeted population health outcomes by implementing systems-level interventions. Mariam looks forward to learning from influential leaders and gaining role models and mentors along the way. This fellowship scheme provides a nurturing environment to foster her leadership skills and Mariam hopes the scheme will inspire her and shape her outlook as a future leader in healthcare.
