Welcome to Roisin Haslett, our new Regional Postgraduate Dean

Welcome to Dr Roisin Haslett, our new Regional Postgraduate Dean, who has taken over from Jane Mamelok who retired at the end of December. Roisin, who has lived and worked in the North West her entire life, brings a wealth of experience to the role. Having joined HEE North West in 2016 as Associate Dean, Roisin was our Deputy Dean since 2019.

Raised in Crosby, Roisin graduated in Medicine from the University of Manchester in 1989. She then pursued a career in anaesthesia and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Anaesthetists in 1995.

Roisin became a Consultant in Intensive Care and Anaesthesia at Hope Hospital (now Salford Royal Hospital) in 1999 and was awarded a Fellowship of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine in 2012. In her clinical role, Roisin developed the Intensive Care Follow Up Service at Salford Royal, where she was also Patient Experience Lead and led governance throughout the COVID pandemic.

Throughout her consultant role, Roisin has had an interest in medical education and has held a range of educational roles at Salford Royal, including Intensive Care Tutor, Acute Care Common Stem Track Lead, Foundation Programme Director and Director of Postgraduate Medical Education.

To support this interest, she became a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Educators in 2013 and completed a master’s degree in medical education in 2016. Her dissertation was on factors that affect female doctors’ choice to pursue or reject an intensive care medicine career and whether altering these factors improve the attractiveness of the speciality to women.

Roisin has driven the funding for and development of a new professional support and wellbeing unit for postgraduate learners in the North West, restructured the team to support the newly formed ICSs and has overseen the expansion and redistribution of the medical workforce locally.

Nationally, Roisin is also NHS England’s Lead Dean for Emergency Medicine and Psychiatry, chairs the English Dean Leadership Leads Group and has a strong interest in medical workforce planning.

Roisin is married to an ophthalmologist, has three sons and one daughter and lives in Altrincham.