TEAM

Dr Iain Broadley is a medical doctor, published scientist, 2019 BBC Food and Farming award winner and co-founder of Nutritank - an award-winning information and innovation hub for food, nutrition and lifestyle medicine. On a mission to fill the medical curricula gap with greater nutrition and lifestyle medicine training.

During his medical studies at Bristol university, Iain co-founded Nutritank, having found that nutrition and lifestyle medicine education, within the medical curricula, was not adequate to combat the rising level of lifestyle-related chronic disease. Nutritank now has 25 medical student-led Nutritank branches across the U.K, where students coordinate, organise and execute educational workshops within this space.

Iain is also a regular speaker at medical innovation conferences and has raised the issue on multiple major media publications, such as BBC Radio 4s’, “The Food Programme”, BBC News online and cooking alongside Jamie Oliver on his show “Jamie and Jimmys Friday Night Feast” (December 28th 2018).

Following the show, Iain and his team helped Jamie's campaign team to organise the “#nutrition4medics” media campaign. This was successful in adding a clause to the NHS Long Term Plan introducing a commitment to increase nutrition education for medical professionals.

Iain has recently graduated as a foundation year one doctor, and volunteered to enter the NHS early to help out during the COVID-19 pandemic. He currently lives in Brighton.

Dr Ally Jaffee is a London-based, multi-award-winning NHS Junior Doctor and is planning on specialising in Psychiatry. Ally qualified from Bristol Medical School in 2022 and also holds a BSc degree in Medical Humanities & Creative Arts from Imperial College London. She is the author of 5 publications in leading Science Journals such as The Lancet and The BMJ. Whilst at Medical School, Ally co-founded Nutritank, an acclaimed Nutrition & Lifestyle Start-up with a nationwide network of healthcare professionals and students. She has contributed to key policy-change work: getting a nutrition education clause (2.19) added to the 2019 NHS Long Term Plan and the creation of a gold-standard nutrition education curricula for medical students led by the AFN ( Association For Nutrition). Regarding Nutritank, Ally has appeared on TV alongside Jamie Oliver on Channel 4. She also received a place on the NHS Clinical Entrepreneurship Programme and a Fellowship at the Royal Academy of Arts (FRSA).

Nathan is a medical and life science entrepreneur with 15 years experience of being an executive director and 25 years experience of being in the medical and life science business sector. In addition to his role at Nutritank he is the CEO of the Fratrem Group Ltd. He also lectures at Universities on entrepreneurship. He is a teetotal, 6am ice-bath, clean eating cross-fit athlete that has a passion to promote lifestyle medicine. He views his primary roles in life as father, husband and being an executive third. In his spare time he supports non-for profits across children's education and autism.

Juliet is a medical student at the University of Birmingham with a keen interest in nutrition and lifestyle medicine. She joined the Nutritank Team in July 2019 with a view to help promote national education to all trainee doctors, with a particular emphasis on how food interacts with our mental health. Her vision is to eventually be able to facilitate patients taking ownership of their own wellbeing and encouraging a view of holistic health encompassing mind, body and soul. In her spare time she can be found at the stables horse riding or cooking up a storm in the kitchen.

Manisha has recently completed her masters in Sport Psychology at Liverpool John Moores University. She is interested in helping others to perform well and throughout transitions across sporting careers. She has had various experiences within the community, higher education and in dance.

She started her role with Nutritank in February 2022. Alongside other coordinators, she is the first point of contact for our student branches where she will be supporting them with freshers events, helping them with access to guest speakers and to recognise the incredible work they have done.

Her motivation behind this role and the mission of Nutritank, is that she enjoys student-facing roles and helping them to succeed in whatever it is that they need. She also has a huge interest in mental health and wellbeing and the relationship with food and lifestyle.

In her free time she loves to go to dance classes, teach dance, go to the gym and Netflix her way through many series!

Simone is one of our branch coordinators. She is currently studying medicine at the University of Leeds. She works on recruiting new branches for the Nutritank community and supporting the existing presidents. Ever since meeting Ally and Iain at a Nutritank conference, she has been passionate about how important nutrition-based education is, in the healthcare field. She has a background in food science from GCSEs to A-levels and she truly believes that food brings people together and it's important to understand and teach others about the nutritional benefits. Since being at University she had fallen in love with cheerleading and trying new activities like snowboarding, and skateboarding. She also loves keeping up with the gym and catching up with friends over a barbeque!

Rachel is a registered dietitian who graduated in 2016 from Kings College London. She works part time in the NHS working with oncology patients, but has worked across a number of medical specialties including intensive care, surgery and respiratory. She also runs her own company Rachel White Nutrition providing sports nutrition advice to athletes.

Rachel joined Nutritank as Lead Dietitian in March 2021 to help promote evidence based nutrition for medics and support the wider team with this mission. She believes that increased nutrition training for Doctors and medical students will not only enhance the care provided to their patients but also improve collaborations with dietitians and registered nutritionists. Her role includes supporting the social media team with nutrition content, writing articles, creating the fortnightly newsletter and providing quality assurance with all Nutritank projects and collaborations.

In her free time you will often find Rachel trail running - preferably running up some hills, cycling or baking cakes.

Dr Charlie Timms is a second year GP speciality trainee in Bristol. He is currently working in a small and friendly practice near Bath.

This is his second year as a co-lead of the Junior Doctor Network alongside Dr Emma Astaire who set up the JDN last year and have been involved in initiating several projects including research on the food environment in hospitals and the annual junior doctor teaching programme.

Nutrition and lifestyle medicine has always been an area of interest for Charlie, with malnutrition being the topics for both his undergraduate BSc and MSc dissertations. However, it was when he starting postgraduate medicine and working on the wards that the vital role nutrition and lifestyle play in the prevention and treatment of multiple illnesses became apparent. Five years ago, at Bristol University, he set up a nutrition teaching session for medical students, this was when I learnt about the amazing work Nutritank had been doing to improve and widen nutrition and lifestyle medicine education. Working in the community, he acknowledges the difficulties long term conditions have on patients and the opportunities we have with lifestyle medicine to help them.

Out of work he is generally playing, watching or talking about football, listening to some terrible 00s indie or losing at a pub quiz.

Fran is a Registered Associate Nutritionist (ANutr) with a BSc (Hons) in Nutrition and an MSc in Nutrition and Behaviour. Alongside her role in Nutritank, she works in the NHS, Research and Health writing. She started working with Nutritank in 2020 as a volunteer developing recipe resources for primary schools and supporting with social media content. She then moved into the Farming Project Lead position due to her interests in the food/agriculture industry, nutrition, nature connection and mental health and how this encompasses sustainability and planetary health.

The Farm Project educates healthcare students on the connection between climate education, agriculture, food systems and nature connection, and how these elements relate to mental wellbeing. This role involves proof reading and writing, creating social media content, networking and event planning.

She is deeply passionate about the importance of all the elements of lifestyle medicine as a results of her own lived experiences and she believes that it is a key tool through which we can connect with others and support our own wellbeing. In her free time she enjoys listening to music or podcasts and curling up to read, volunteering at her local community gardens or getting out in nature and exploring.

Aga graduated from University of Hertfordshire in 2013 where she gained a HR degree. For the last 4 years she has been working for the NHS, supporting individuals suffering from mental health issues to gain sustainable employment. She also owns a Virtual Assistant business.

She has been working for Nutritank for nearly two months now and her role is to provide behind the scenes support! She is responsible for HR, accounts and customer service.
Nutritank’s values very closely matches those of her own. She is very passionate about well-being and improving mental health.

In her free time she enjoys spending time outdoors with her horse and dogs, travelling and discovering new cultures and places. She is a petrol head and enjoys spending time around cars, especially american classics!

Veronica is the Social Media Lead at Nutritank. She graduated in Business & Marketing last year and now she is doing what she loves the most, digital marketing!

She deeply resonates with Nutritank's mission since and believes that a holistic approach to health is fundamental to optimal well-being.

She is also highly passionate about fitness and is a qualified yoga teacher, so in her free time you'll probably find her walking in nature or teaching yoga!

Alice has a BSc and MSc in Nutrition, and has worked over the past 10 years in the food industry, agriculture, nutrition education and research, most recently at University of Oxford where she was on placement pre pandemic, investigating breast and bottle feeding nutrition and nociception in neonates. She is a registered nutritionist with Association for Nutrition in the domain of Nutrition Science, and currently an MSc Psychology student at University of Wolverhampton. She has a keen interest and passion for research in the areas of nutritional psychiatry and psychotraumatology, and works in a freelance capacity as a Nutritional Scientist, doing consultancy work, as well as volunteering as a career development advisor for newly graduated nutritionists and dietitians looking to work in industry and research. Alice is head of partnerships for Nutritank, co supervises the university placement students with our lead dietitian and serves as a representative for the nutrition implementation coalition. She also volunteers as part of Nutritank's writing and research teams. Aside from Nutritank, Alice is a vicar's wife, a mum to three small children, a yoga teacher and plays for her local ladies' football team. Overall, her ambition is to empower others to live healthier lives using nutrition and lifestyle strategies, contribute to the field of nutritional psychiatry as a researcher, and see more women empowered to pursue careers in research and education in the field of nutritional science.