Charlie Bell is an Academic Clinical Fellow in Psychiatry at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and King's College London. He is also a Fellow, College Lecturer and Director of Studies in Medicine at Girton College Cambridge, holds a PhD (2015) in immunogenetic medicine, and is a Module Leader for the University of London's Global MBA. He will be ordained in the Church of England in June 2021 and will serve his curacy in the Diocese of Southwark; he is currently completing an MA focusing on a theological response to 'total pain'. He is involved in a number of church-based organisations, including Modern Church and Affirming Catholicism. He has published papers in both theology and medicine and was previously the National Medical Director's Clinical Fellow advising the Health and Social Care Committee of the House of Commons and the National Audit Office, where he contributed to a number of reports.