Professor Ian Curran
Dean for Education
Professor Ian Curran trained in anaesthesia at Barts and the Royal London Hospitals and has held many senior academic and clinical positions in the UK and overseas. He is an award-winning medical educator and transformational leader. He has advised UK Chief Medical Officers, NHS England, Health Education England and the UK Department of Health.
Professor Curran joins Queen Mary from the College of Health and Medicine at the Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, where he was the inaugural Deputy Dean for Health Professions. During his time at ANU he led a number of strategic transformations of the healthcare education portfolio, increasing its scope, range, and distinctiveness. He was also a professor in the pioneering ANU School of Medicine and Psychology, advocating and leading a more bio-psycho-social approach to health professions education.
Before joining ANU, Professor Curran was Professor and Vice Dean of Education at the Duke-NUS Medical School, an autonomous School of the National University of Singapore, where he led a successful transformation of the Doctor of Medicine programme. At the same time, he was Co-Director of the Academic Medicine Education Institute of the SingHealth Duke-NUS Academic Medical Centre, which served the largest academic medical centre in Singapore.
Professor Curran has held many strategic, academic, clinical and professional leadership roles in the UK, most notably at the General Medical Council (GMC) where he led the revision of UK medical education standards. Reflecting the values of Queen Mary, at the GMC Professor Curran led policy development on differential attainment and promoted psychological safety, equality and diversity in education. In 2014 he became Professor of Innovation and Excellence in Healthcare Education in the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry at QMUL