Speakers for WellMedix UK

Oscar is a GP, broadcaster and author who brings warmth, insight and lived experience to his work across healthcare and media. He has appeared on BBC1’s How the NHS Changed Our World, ITV’s Dr Google, and co-hosted The Surgery on BBC Radio 1. He is also known for Channel 4’s 24 Hours in A&E, and for fronting the powerful BBC2 documentary Born Too White, which explored the persecution of people with albinism in East Africa.

Born with albinism himself, Oscar has long been an advocate for diversity and inclusion in medicine. He speaks regularly at schools and conferences, and is a proud ambassador for Jeans for Genes.

Medically, Oscar graduated from King’s College London in 2010 and holds a Master’s in Internal Medicine. He is a dual member of both the Royal College of General Practitioners and the Royal College of Physicians, with additional training in family planning, sexual and reproductive health. His clinical experience spans everything from emergency departments to transplant centres.

Dr Olivia Donnelly leads a Parliamentary-award winning Staff Psychology Team at North Bristol NHS Trust, which includes a dedicated service for doctors.
Olivia’s background was as a cancer specialist psychology, with a particular interest in supporting patients to make complex decisions about complex surgery. 
Her work is now focused on supporting healthcare professionals to work well and stay well under pressure. Alongside her work at North Bristol NHS Trust, she offers supervision and coaching, and is also working as part of a Royal College of Surgeons improvement collaborative supporting surgeons following adverse events.
Olivia has a particular interest in practical, values-based approaches to promoting psychological safety within teams and across healthcare organisations, based on the foundation that ‘resilience is between us, not just within us’.

Mark is a consultant Anaesthetist in Cardiff and has a personal interest in resilience, performance and burnout. His talks on mental toughness, his tookit and bakers dozen have been presented to and used by medics around the UK.

Mark is a keen cyclist and, when he's not trying to coax Mike out onto the mountain bike trails around Cardiff, uses his bike to keep fit as well as his primary mode of transport. Not only to get to work, but more recently to cycle for charity all the way to the South of France to see Wales beat Australia in the Rugby World Cup.

Mark was a keynote speaker at WellMedix in 2023 and enjoyed himself so much, as well as bringing all his expeerince and expertise to the delegates and faculty alike, that he has been signed up to be involved again in 2026.

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Mental Toughness Toolkit

Our amazing teachers at mountain yoga will be taking our through a diverse range of tutorials including yoga and flexibility sessions, mindfulness practices, breathwork, and even invigorating cold water therapy sessions all carefully designed to enhance your overall wellbeing and elevate your daily life.