Meet the Team
Dr John Elder
LMC Chair
Dr John Elder is a GP representing Lincolnshire South West. He has been on the LMC Committee many years.
Dr Carl Deaney
LMC Deputy Chair
Dr Carl Deaney is a GP representing East Lincolnshire. He has been a committee member for a number of years.
Dr Kieran Sharrock
Medical Director
Kieran trained in London where he also started his vocational training. He moved to Lincolnshire in 1999 and completed his VTS in Boston. He then worked as a GP partner in Skegness and then Mablethorpe. He has been a GP trainer since 2005, and has also carried out other roles including GP appraiser, RNLI lifeboat doctor, and Forensic Medical Examiner.
Kieran became an LMC committee member in 2007 and sat on the committee until 2011, when he left the committee due to other work commitments.
Kieran became Medical Director in 2014. Kieran’s role as Medical Director is to support and represent individual GPs, practices, and general practice. Since becoming Medical Director Kieran has worked as a salaried GP at Spilsby Surgery.
Whilst not working Kieran likes to ride his bike and walk his dogs, so that he can eat and drink without piling on the pounds.
Kate Pilton
Chief Operating Officer
Kate joined the LMC in January 2014 as the Practice Development Manager. On 1st April 2017, she became Chief Operating Officer following the retirement of Debbie Burley at the end of March 2017.
Kate is an experienced primary Health Care Manager who has worked both in the UK and overseas. With previous roles in Practice, Training, Consultancy and Clinical IT Systems and having visited over 3000 practices throughout the UK, Kate has a wealth of knowledge to share with GPs, practices & other stakeholders.
Dr William Whitlow
LMC Company Secretary
Dr William Whitlow has been a partner in a training practice of 10,000 patients in urban Lincoln since 1987. He has been an active member of the LMC since 1995 and is Company Secretary of Lincolnshire LMC Ltd. Dr Whitlow’s wife is a salaried GP in a neighboring practice.
Dr Whitlow is a locality lead in our CCG and spent many years as a clinical lead in OOHs until Jul 2017. Dr Whitlow trained in pastoral care for the LMC and is keen to support colleagues. Dr Whitlow’s hobbies include road cycling, walking, skiing and rotary.
Mrs Dawn Hackney 
Nurse Liaison Officer
Dawn is the newest member of our team, having joined the Lincolnshire LMC in August 2019. Dawn trained as a nurse in 1985 at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd, North Wales and then as a midwife. She met her Lincolnshire yellow belly husband and moved to work as Midwife at Scunthorpe General Hospital in 1990. After a short period working as an Independent midwife Dawn joined the Practice Nurse team at Brant Road Surgery developing her role within the team and wider GPN community, chairing the GPN forum, becoming one of the first practices to mentor student nurses.
Dawn undertook specialist FSRH training in 2009 to become a sexual health specialist nurse, with a focus on contraception and works one day a month at the NHS Lincolnshire Integrated Sexual Health Service.
In 2015 Dawn took on a new role as senior GPN at The Ingham Practice, and was given the opportunity to work across the wider health economy representing Primary care at CCG IP&C committee. Dawn is a visiting Lecturer at Bishop Grosseteste University on both HCSW and Post Graduate Certificate in General Practice programmes.
Dawn will continue to wrap around clinical GPN nurse duties around her new LMC role.
Miss Rosa Larner-Peet
Administrative Officer
Rosa joined the Lincolnshire LMC in 2015; prior to working at the LMC Rosa provided administrative support to organisations within the Care sector.
Dr Stephen Savory
Committee Member
Dr Stephen Savory is a GP representing East Lincolnshire and he joined the LMC Committee in 2016.
Dr Luqman Rajput
Committee Member
Dr Luqman Rajput is a GP representing East Lincolnshire and joined the LMC Committee in 2017.
Dr Reid Baker
Committee Member
Dr Reid Baker is a GP representing East Lincolnshire and has been on the LMC Committee a number of years.
Dr Adeel Asim
Committee Member
Dr Adeel Asim is a GP representing East Lincolnshire and has been on the LMC Committee a number of years.
Dr Zubair Alam
Committee Member
Dr Zubair Alem is a GP representing East Lincolnshire and joined the LMC Committee in 2017.
Dr Naseer Khan
Committee Member
Dr Naseer Khan is a GP representing South Lincolnshire and has been on the LMC Committee a number of years.
Dr Jeremy Phipps
Committee Member
Dr Jeremy Phipps is a GP representing South Lincolnshire and has been on the LMC Committee for a many years.
Dr Saleem Ajumal
Committee Member
Dr Saleem Ajumal is a GP representing South Lincolnshire and has been on the LMC Committee many years.
Dr Daniel Petrie
Committee Member
Dr Daniel Petrie is a GP representing South Lincolnshire and is our newest committee member having joined in May 2019.
Dr Matthew Glasson
Committee Member
Dr Matthew Glasson is a GP representing South West lincolnshire and joined the Committee in 2017.
Dr Kesava Vijayan
Committee Member
Dr Kesava Vijayan is a GP representing South West Lincolnshire and has been on the LMC Committee for many years.
Dr David Baker
Committee Member
Dr David Baker is a GP representing South West Lincolnshire and has been on the LMC Committee for many years.
Dr Mark Protheroe
Committee Member
Dr Mark Protheroe is a GP representing West Lincolnshire and has been on the LMC Committee for several years.
Dr Kathryn Fickling
Committee Member
Dr Kathryn Fickling is a GP representing West Lincolnshire and joined the LMC in 2018.
Dr Mekala Mahalingham
Committee Member
Dr Mekala Mahalingham is a GP representing West Lincolnshire and joined the LMC Committee in 2018.
Dr Nazar Iman
Committee Member
Dr Nazar Imam is a GP representing West Lincolnshire and has been on the LMC Committee for a number of years.
Dr Keith Butter
Committee Member
Dr Keith Butter is a Locum GP and has been on the LMC Committee for a number of years.
Dr Sue Marris
Committee Member
Dr Sue Marris is a Locum GP and joined the LMC Committee in 2017.
Dr David Wordsworth
GP Registrar Representative
Dr David Wordsworth is a GP registrar and joined the LMC Committee in 2017.
Dr Jonathan Mills
GP Registrar Representative
Dr Jonathan Mills is a GP registrar and joined the LMC Committee in 2018.
Dr Ashan Shah
GP Registrar Representative
Dr Ashan Shah is a GP registrar and joined the LMC Committee in 2018.
Mr Nick Turner
Practice Manager Representative
Nick Turner is a Practice Manager from a GP practice and joined the LMC Committee in 2019.