Junior Doctor of the Year award winner's showcase

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Junior doctors could be excused for not having the time to make noteworthy contributions to health care in this country. However some exceptional young doctors manage to juggle their every day commitments with projects that considerably enrich the world around them.

Dr Dan Magnus, Paediatric Registrar, Severn Deanery, UK

Dan is a paediatric registrar with a special interest in Global Child Health, lecturer in Maternal and Child Health, and Co-Founding Trustee of KOP – a UK registered charity committed to improving the lives of orphans and vulnerable children in western Kenya. Dan has shown a long term commitment to charity work in the developing world. He co-founded the Kenyan Orphan Project in 2001 whilst a medical student at Nottingham University and continues to act as a trustee. The Project  supports a wide range of grassroot  projects which are then taken forward by local communities  and  over 800 medical and other students at 12 universities have taken part in  programmes at rural outreach medical camps.

Dan is also in charge of developing global health teaching  for medical undergraduates at the University of Bristol and sits on the committee of the international child health group at the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.

Dan Magnus (below, left) said:

"When you work hard for something you passionately believe in, you don’t imagine that there will be any reward or acknowledgement. I was delighted and humbled to even be shortlisted for this award because I have been so focused on trying to improve the lives of children in the UK and overseas and this kind of recognition means a great deal. There is still much to be done to champion the rights of children and to inspire a new generation to work towards improving health and alleviating suffering but this award has certainly spurred me on to work even harder."