Mr Tom Revington

Course Director for the MSc in Surgical Science and Practice and PGCert in Patient Safety and Quality Improvement.

Module lead: Quality Improvement Science and Systems Analysis.

Biography

Mr Tom Revington read Biochemistry at Oxford University and carried out research into the T cell response to Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) at Oxford's Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine.

An interest in travel and international affairs led him to enter the diplomatic service of the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office for a role encompassing policy development, conflict resolution and inter-governmental negotiations.  After an overseas posting as deputy head of political office in Istanbul he returned to London to lead a team producing financial, economic and political analysis of EU countries responding to needs of senior officials and ministers at the UK Treasury, Bank of England, Financial Services Authority and the Prime Minister’s Office.  He was responsible for the Prime Minister’s briefing service at quarterly European Council meetings of EU leaders and the Chancellor’s briefing service at monthly meetings of European Finance ministers.  During this time he studied for a Postgraduate Certificate in Economics at Birkbeck College, University of London.

Between 2004-2012 he worked at McKinsey & Company, mainly on improvement programmes at healthcare providers.  His focus was increasingly on developing the leadership and improvement capabilities of those organisations.  After returning to the classroom 2012-2014 to obtain an MSc in psychology, Tom set up an educational consultancy to design and run programmes building the leadership and improvement capabilities of clients.  In 2016 he began teaching on the Surgical Science and Practice courses at Oxford University.  He is now the Course Director for the MSc in Surgical Science and Practice and the PGCert in Patient Safety and Quality Improvement, as well as the Module Lead for the Quality Improvement Science and Systems Analysis module.