Dr Christoph Lees, MD MRCOG, Reader in Obstetrics and Fetal Medicine at Imperial College London; Honorary Consultant in Obstetrics and Head of Fetal Medicine at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, Centre for Fetal Care, Queen Charlotte’s and Chelsea Hospital; Visiting Professor at the Department of Development and Regeneration, KU Leuven, Belgium; Founder, Doctors Policy Research Group, Civitas. His non-clinical interests are in the field of medical regulation. He spoke to me about lessons that Irish medical regulation could learn from the UK, ahead of his address at the Medical Advocates’ conference ‘Fit for purpose: The role of just culture in transforming medical regulation in Ireland’, on Friday 6th October '17. http://imn.ie/risking-reputation-doctors-gmc/