Shera Chok NIHR
Shera is a GP and the Chair of the multi award-winning Shuri Network which she founded in 2019. She is passionate about increasing diversity, innovation and safety and empowering women from minority ethnic groups to lead and engage with digital transformation. She is a non-executive director with the London Ambulance Service and the national lead for research in community settings with the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR).
She has extensive experience of working in acute, community and primary care settings, commissioning organisations and national leadership roles including Chief Medical Officer at NHS Digital. She was awarded the international Richard von Weizsäcker Fellowship by the Robert Bosch Academy in Berlin in 2023 to examine the German digital health strategy and help develop new insights and perspectives to deliver safer, more equitable and innovative care.
Shera has led complex national and local programmes to improve patient outcomes, safety and workforce development. She was the Director of Primary Care at Barts Health, the largest acute trust in the NHS for six years, helping to improve patient pathways across organizational boundaries.
She has helped to develop and implement health policy as a national clinical advisor on new models of care, system transformation and Integrated Care Systems with NHS England and advised ministers as a member of the NHS Independent Reconfiguration Panel for seven years. She is a member of the Sciana Network for European health leaders.
She has completed an M.B.A., M.A. in Inter-professional Education and a Nuffield Trust Fellowship on cross-organizational learning with Sunderland Athletic Football Club. In 2023 she was awarded the Zenith Global Health Special Recognition Award for her contribution to patient care and equity, and has also won national awards including the HSJ Award for race equality in 2021 and DHSC AI Visionary in 2025.
Shera has volunteered as a clinician in countries including Sudan, Laos, Indonesia and Greece with NGOs working in war and disaster zones and with displaced populations. She studied at the Institute of Healthcare Improvement, Kennedy School of Government and the Harvard School of Public Health on an NHS Executive Leadership programme, focusing on quality improvement, community engagement and leading change.