We welcomed a stunning line-up of speakers to our inaugural conference and many of them are published authors too.
We’re bringing together a list of the books written by the contributors to our Jenny Vaughan Memorial Conference.
Dr David Sellu, who opened the conference, tells his extraordinary story in Did He Save Lives? A Surgeon’s Story.
Founder and director of Plant-Based Health Professionals UK, Dr Shireen Kassam, has written Plant-Based Nutrition in Clinical Practice.
The books is a guide to the uses, benefits and practical application of a plant-based diet for health professionals, taking a holistic and a systems-based approach.
Emma Wilkinson, freelance health journalist and vice chair of the Medical Journalists’ Association, explores the physiological and psychological differences between the sexes in Ultra Women: The Trailblazers Defying Sexism in Sport.
NHS GP and media medic Dr Punam Krishan released her second children’s book, You and Your Body, in January.
It followed her debut book How to be a Doctor and Other Life-saving Jobs.
Conference speaker books
The panel discussion on the issues facing general practice were built around Why Can’t I See My GP? by DAUK’s vice chair Dr Ellen Welch.
The book is central to DAUK’s campaign work and MP briefings on the GP crisis. All royalties are donated to DAUK.
Dr Rachel Clarke, NHS palliative care doctor, is the author of multiple Sunday Times bestselling books about medicine.
Her most recent, The Story of a Heart, tells the tale of a heart transplant that changed UK legal history, while Breathtaking, which revealed how NHS staff confronted the height of the pandemic, was adapted into a major ITV television series.
You Don’t Have to be Made to Work Here, was a Sunday Times bestseller by Dr Benji Waterhouse, an NHS consultant psychiatrist, and award-winning comedian and writer.
In it, Dr Waterhouse provides a fly-on-the-padded-wall account of medicine’s most mysterious and controversial speciality.
Visit the Book Shelf page on the DAUK website for more details of book offers for members.
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