Veena is Emeritus Professor of Public Health & Medical Education, University of East Anglia. She has been involved in curriculum design, delivery, and assessment; educator development and mentoring; faculty management and strategic leadership of educational programmes at a senior level for several years at Norwich Medical School and at regional and national level. She was the Course Director of the Clinical Education Masters level course at the University of East Anglia between 2016-21 and has introduced several options for engagement with teaching, learning & assessment for undergraduate medical students at Norwich Medical school.
She uses a variety of contemporary pedagogical methods and technology to make learning engaging and to facilitate reflection and professional development. She has developed and is the lead educator of four fully online Massive Open Online Courses on Clinical Supervision on the FutureLearn platform.
Her area of expertise is educator development with a particular focus on developing clinical and educational supervisors for postgraduate medical and other health professional learners.