Nara Orban is a consultant ENT surgeon at Barts Health NHS trust. As an experienced clinical surgical immunologist, her undergraduate medical studies were at Imperial College where she went on to do a Masters in Surgical Education as well as a PhD in immunology. She is Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (having studied for her Membership at the same institution prior to that), obtained her Diploma in Otolaryngology, and is a passionate experienced healthcare leader and innovator. She has particular inerest in bringing novel therapies and digital healthcare applications to market, as well as affecting positive organisation change in complex healthcare systems.
She volunteers as part of the BioIndustry Association mentoring scheme, is a public governor of Chelsea & Westminster Hospital Foundation Trust, and is an executive board member and honorary secretary of ENTUK. As part of a dedicated team, she has helped steer Phaim Pharma from a UK start-up to a growth company embarking on clinical trials in type 1 diabetes and with discovery pipeline in multiple other autoimmune diseases. She understands the challenges faced by UK lifescience health and medtech companies, and is focused on embedding the Royal Society of Medicine at the very heart of the innovation engine of the UK.