Jessamy Bagenal

About

Jessamy Bagenal is an award winning physician-surgeon turned editor. She works as a Senior Executive Editor at The Lancet where she sits on the senior management team, leads the clinical strategy, and champions open access and research integrity policies. Jessamy qualified from medicine in 2009 and trained as a surgeon in the NHS for just under a decade. In 2015 she won a National Clinical Director's Fellowship with the Faculty of Leadership and Management. This made her want to have a larger impact on patient care and health more broadly. Jessamy is driven by a commitment to improve the health of both people and the planet. She works across a range of health and public health topics but is particularly interested in women and health, technology and health and climate and health.

Honors and Awards

Margaret Whitt Prize for Clinical excellence
2017, Royal College of Surgeons

Molnlyke Bursary
2016, Royal College of Surgeons

BOSTIC Surgical Trials Dragons Den best trial design
2016, Bristol Clinical Trials Unit

Macmillan Leadership Award
2015, Macmillan

Severn Deanery Core Trainee of the Year
2013, Severn School of Surgery

Global Surgical Frontiers Conference prize place
2012, Royal College of Surgeons

Best Audit Presentation Severn Research and Audit Day
2012, Severn School of Surgery

Core Trainee of the Year
2012, Gloucestershire Trust Hospitals

Norman Tanner Surgical Safety Prize
2012, Royal Society of Medicine

Research Activities

• Women and health
• Technology and health
  
• Climate and health
  
• Public health
  
• Surgery
  
• Health systems
  

Service Activities

I'm interested in mentoring and developing students.

Key Publications

Scientific Publishing and Generative AI: urgent questions, difficult answers. Bagenal, Jessamy (2024). The Lancet.
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Brext and health: 4 years on. Bagenal, Jessamy, Mckee, Martin (2024). The Lancet.
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Healthcare students: committed to health but frustrated. Bagenal, Jessamy (2023). The Lancet.
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Education