Patron: Her Majesty The Queen
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II was our Patron for more than 70 years, and we are incredibly grateful for her longstanding and kind patronage of the charity. We join the nation in mourning her loss.
Who’s who at the RMBF
What makes the RMBF so effective is that the majority of our Board and our volunteers come from a medical background. This means that as an organisation we understand the unique pressures facing doctors on a day to day basis.
President: Professor Sheila the Baroness Hollins
Baroness Hollins is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry of Intellectual Disability at St George’s University of London and Honorary Professor of Spirituality, Theology and Health, University of Durham.
Sheila has worked as a consultant psychiatrist, teacher, researcher and policymaker in intellectual disability and health. As an Independent Member of the House of Lords, she speaks on mental health, disability issues and adverse childhood experiences.
Baroness Hollins has been President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, President and Chair of the Board of Science of the British Medical Association. She is currently President of the Royal College of Occupational Therapists in the U.K.
Chief Executive: Steve Crone
Steve Crone was appointed Chief Executive of the RMBF in 2011. Steve is an experienced CEO and has worked in the health charity sector for over 30 years including senior roles at the charities QUIT, College of Health, Asthma UK and Counsel and Care.
Steve is a Director of DocHealth, the confidential psychotherapeutic consultation service for doctors, which is supported jointly by the BMA and the RMBF. He was formerly Chairman of the European Network of Quitlines and a member of the European Commission’s Help Campaign Advisory Board.
Treasurer & Trustee: Professor Greg Rubin
Greg Rubin was a GP in the North East of England for 35 years and is Emeritus Professor of General Practice and Primary Care at Newcastle University. With over 200 peer-reviewed publications, his research is in the diagnosis and management of cancer in primary care and at the interface with secondary care, and the configuration of health services to enable this.
He chairs the Cancer Research UK-funded CanTest Collaborative, and has advised the Department of Health and CRUK on the implementation of cancer strategy. He was the Royal College of General Practitioners’ first Clinical Lead for Cancer and is the clinical lead for the English National Cancer Diagnosis Audit. In 2017 he was awarded the CRUK Jane Wardle Prevention and Early Diagnosis Prize for world-leading research in the field of prevention and early diagnosis of cancer.
Chair of Grants and Awards Committee & Trustee: Dr Rachel Liebmann OBE
Dr Rachael Liebmann OBE graduated from Queen’s University Belfast in 1991 and is a past vice President of the Royal College of Pathologists, a specialist breast pathologist at the Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, and Chief Medical Officer at The Doctors Laboratory and Health Services Laboratories.
As well as holding many senior regional and national roles in the recent past, Dr Liebmann has held roles at the Royal College of Pathologists, and has over 20 years’ experience as an NHS consultant. She has been shortlisted for the National Patient Safety Awards and Health Service Journal Clinical Leader of the Year, and was awarded the College Medal for Distinguished Service.
Dr Liebmann was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2020 in recognition of her services to pathology.