Meet Professor Peter Coventry, Head of School of Medicine Keele

Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OUtz-LzxJ4

Meet Professor Peter Coventry, Head of School of Medicine at Keele University.

This video was published on Friday 17 October 2025.

Congratulations on receiving an offer to study in the School of Medicine at Keele.

You'll be joining a diverse, innovative and multi-professional school with highly dedicated staff who will ensure that you develop the knowledge, skills, and, where appropriate, professional behaviours to ensure that you will flourish in your future careers.

All of our programmes share an ethos of producing excellent graduates and practitioners, many of whom will make positive contributions to the care and support of people with social and health needs, including at individual level, community level and population level.

Future patients, service users, clients, communities and populations lie at the heart of all we do. We have a wide range of practitioners, biomedical, behavioural and social scientists who will ensure that everything you learn is directly related to your future career.

Keele has an international reputation for the excellence of its research, including in areas such as global health, neuroscience, cardiology, mental health and musculoskeletal disorders.

Depending on your course, you will be learning in state-of-the-art teaching and simulation facilities including our Anatomy and Surgical Training centre, our simulation centres, and also working in placements across the region. These placements will ensure that you're superbly well prepared for your profession and that you excel in your career.

Our staff are very focused on helping individual students achieve excellence. We will support you, we will work with you and we will enable you to do your very best.

I hope to welcome you to Keele soon.