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The Out Of Programme (OOP) podcast shines a spotlight on clinicians who have ventured beyond the traditional path of clinical training to forge unique and unconventional careers.

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Sep 8, 2026
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Jul 14, 2026

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  1. Episode · Sep 8, 2026

    Episode 39: Dr Hatim Abdulhussein on Becoming an AI Professor With No PhD, Setting Up the Topol Fellowship, and Leading a Health Innovation Network (opens the original)

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    What happens when an "average medical student" co-founds the Topol Programme, becomes an AI professor without a PhD, and rises to run a health innovation network while still seeing patients every Friday? In this episode, we speak with Dr Hatim Abdulhussein , a GP who became CEO of Health Innovation Kent Surrey Sussex and Honorary Professor of Innovation and AI at the University of Surrey — one of the UK's leading clinician-innovators working inside the system. • 🧑 How a foundation doctor in Bedf

  2. Episode · Aug 25, 2026

    Episode 38: Dr David Montgomery on Pharmaceutical Medicine, Running for Parliament, and the Freedom of Founding His Own Consultancy (opens the original)

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    What happens when a surgical trainee and former parliamentary candidate pivots into pharmaceutical medicine, rises to global VP, and then walks away to found his own consultancy on his own terms? In this episode, we speak with Dr David Montgomery , a consultant in pharmaceutical medicine, former global VP at Pfizer, and co-founder of PM Life Sciences, a pharmaceutical advisory firm and consultancy. • 🏗️ The freedom of founding his own consultancy — starting from scratch and the liberation of bui

  3. Episode · Aug 11, 2026

    Episode 37: Dr Patrick Doyle on Surviving Everest, Bootstrapping L2P Into a Leading NHS Platform, and Life After Acquisition (opens the original)

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    What happens when a South African anaesthetist survives cerebral oedema on Everest, bootstraps an NHS appraisal platform with no external funding, and sells it to one of the UK's fastest-growing health tech companies? In this episode, we speak with Dr Patrick Doyle , a consultant anaesthetist who founded L2P — the leading platform for job planning, appraisals and revalidation — which was acquired by Patchwork Health after 15 years of growth. 🏔️ Surviving Everest — getting cerebral oedema at Camp

  4. Episode · Jul 29, 2026

    Episode 36: Dr Nick Appelbaum on How Lord Darzi Changed His Career, Building the First Machine-Readable BNF, and Why Academic Projects Die Without Commercial Infrastructure (opens the original)

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    What happens when a South African surgeon gets plucked out by Lord Darzi, builds the first machine-readable BNF, and spins a company out of Imperial that reduces prescribing errors by 83%? In this episode, we speak with Dr Nick Appelbaum , a surgeon turned entrepreneur who went from inventing spreadsheet-based prescribing safety tools in South Africa to completing a PhD with Lord Ara Darzi at Imperial, leading clinical research at the Helix Centre, and founding Dosium — a company now integrating

  5. Episode · Jul 14, 2026

    Episode 35: Cosima Gretton on Leaving Medicine for Silicon Valley, Why Product Thinking Is the Opposite of Medical Training, and Scaling the UK's Biggest Health Research Programme (opens the original)

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    What happens when a doctor trained in experimental psychology leaves medicine in F2, builds products in Silicon Valley, runs a £10M/day COVID testing programme, and becomes Chief Product Officer of the UK's largest health research study? In this episode, we speak with Dr Cosima Gretton , a medical doctor who left clinical practice to pursue product management in the US, served as Deputy Director at NHS Test & Trace during the pandemic, and is now Chief Product Officer at Our Future Health — a re

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