Dr Emily Lear
Associate Adviser - Education
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Dr Emily Lear is Consultant Anaesthetist at Mid-Cheshire NHS Foundation Trust, Leighton Hospital. She has a special interest in preoperative assessment and optimisation prior to surgery, including risk stratification and shared decision making. She is currently the Associate Medical Director for Surgery, Cancer, Critical Care, Anaesthetics, Pain and Perioperative medicine; a role she shares with a colorectal surgical colleague.
Throughout training, Emily engaged widely with medical education. She was an Advanced Life Support instructor; wrote and delivered the undergraduate anaesthetic curriculum at Liverpool University; and developed an anatomy handbook for core anaesthetic trainees, attending the Mersey School of Anaesthesia exam courses. As a consultant, she spent 5 years leading the Mersey regional teaching programme for core trainees in Anaesthesia, and remains a regular contributor. In addition, she was deputy Undergraduate Tutor at Leighton Hospital for three years, where she provided support for the education team and medical students on placement.
In more recent years, Emily has focussed on clinical leadership, including departmental and divisional governance, service development and quality improvement. She continues to work closely with the nurse-led preoperative assessment service, as it navigates the lasting impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on surgical waiting lists.
Emily has more recently expanded her portfolio to include Appraisal Lead for the Trust and Deputy Responsible Officer. Supporting doctors through professional and personal difficulties is challenging but rewarding. This lived experience provides Emily with an excellent foundation for her Associate Adviser role, supporting NHS Resolution in delivering courses to help everyone ‘do it well’.
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