Professor of Psycho-Social Medicine and Medical Education, Director, Doubleday Centre for Patient Experience and Chair, Doubleday Medical Schools Collaboration on Patient Partnership at University of Manchester Medical School. Non-Executive Director (Vice-Chairman), Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust. Member of Council, Football Association. Member, NHS England Assembly. Past President Medicine and Society Section, Royal Society of Medicine.

Dame Robina Shah is a Consultant Chartered Psychologist, Professor of Medical Education and Psycho-Social Medicine at the University of Manchester. She is a Chartered Member of the British Psychological Society, a Fellow Member of the Royal Society of Medicine, and Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners.

Robina is Director of the Doubleday Centre for Patient Experience at Manchester Medical School, an author and academic with a specialist interest in psychosocial medicine, person centred education; public health, youth development and learning disability.

She has held Chair/Non-Executive Director roles in the NHS, Social Care, and the private sector. She has also held national advisory/leadership roles with the Department of Health, the Ministry of Justice, Royal College of General Practitioners, General Medical Council, Health Education England. She was a Member of the Prime ministers NHS Future Forum, Board Advisor to the National Patient Safety Agency, Chair of the RCGP Patients and Carers Partnership Group and worked internationally with the World Health Organisation and Institute of Health Improvement in the US.

She is passionate about football and holds several leadership roles with the Football Association (FA). She is a member of the FA Council, an Ambassador for Women’s Football, Vice-Chair, FA Disability Football Committee, Trustees, FA Benevolent Fund, and a core Member of the FA Governance Review Group.

Robina was personally appointed by The Late Queen, High Sheriff of Greater Manchester (2018-2019). She has been a Deputy Lieutenant since 2006 and was Awarded the Title “Dame Commander” in the Kings New Year’s Honours list 2023, for services to patient care.