Dr Mark Lillicrap

Mark Lillicrap is a Consultant Rheumatologist at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge and Hinchingbrooke Hospital in Huntingdon. His particular interest is in medical education. He is an Associate Lecturer and Curriculum Sub-Dean at the University of Cambridge, an Educational Supervisor for Postgraduate Trainees, a lecturer on the Cambridge PGCert in Medical Education and the Director of the Undergraduate Clinical Supervisor Programme in Cambridge. He has worked as the Director of Medical Education at Hinchingbrooke and is a Postgraduate Educational Supervisor. He works with Arthritis Research UK on developing educational resources for clinicians and patients and is also involved with the Association for the Study of Medical Education, facilitating educator development and educational leadership.

He did his preclinical medical degree (BA – medical sciences) at the University of Cambridge (Robinson College) before moving to the “dark side” and graduating from the University of Oxford in 1992 (BMBCh). He did the usual tour of junior doctor posts, including a brief spell in New Zealand; obtaining his MRCP in 1996. He then returned to Robinson College to complete a PhD in T cell immunology (2000), looking at mechanisms of immune tolerance and their relevance to inflammation. He then went on to train in rheumatology in the Eastern Region (Cambridge and Norwich), developing his current interest in medical education, at both the University of Cambridge and the University of East Anglia (in Norwich).

He took up his current consultant posts in 2004, became a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) in 2006, a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP) in 2009 and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Educators (FAcadMEd) in 2010.

He has 2 children, is married to Jo (whom he met at Robinson College in his student days), enjoys all aspects of his work (both clinical and educational) and plays the saxophone in a local rock band!