Fellows

Dr Sheila Lumley

Sheila Lumley Profile PicDr Sheila Lumley is a Governing Body Fellow and Co-Director of Clinical Medicine (Senior Doll Fellow) of Green Templeton College, University of Oxford. She is also Co-Chair of the Medical Teaching Subcommittee and a member of the Academic Committee at college.

Sheila studied pre-clinical medicine at Selwyn College, University of Cambridge and clinical medicine at Green Templeton College, University of Oxford before working in London and Oxford, specialising in infectious diseases. She was awarded a Wellcome Trust Research Training Fellowship in 2020, completing a DPhil in Clinical Medicine at Trinity College, Oxford, studying the application of viral sequencing to inform clinical practice focusing on SARS-CoV-2 and Hepatitis B virus. She was the recipient of a Royal College of Pathologists Research Medal Award for high impact publications answering critical questions about post-infection immunity. She is currently an NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer in Infectious Diseases working on the design and evaluation of pathogen diagnostics to maximise benefits to individual patients and public health.

She has delivered teaching programmes for UCL and Oxford medical schools, London Deanery and Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, receiving an OUH award for outstanding leadership and an award for service transformation through education for the largest of these programmes. In addition, she has been a reserve medical officer in the Navy since 2015.

Her responsibilities within college include:

  • Overseeing all aspects of teaching for the clinical medical students
  • Leading the team of Doll Tutorial Fellows and Teaching Associates in Green Templeton to deliver the Medical Teaching Programme
  • Academic and professional support
  • Pastoral care
  • Governing Body Fellow
  • Co-chair of Medical teaching subcommittee
  • Member of Academic Committee
  • Member of Management in Medicine steering committee