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Dr Sylvia Bartley
Science, Medicine & Engineering Senior Global Director, Medtronic Philanthropy

Sylvia, yet another example of an expatriate black Briton
doing great things in the United States, leads on the
execution of a new philanthropy model that was designed
to enable Medtronic PLC to consistently deliver 2 per cent of
pre-tax profits to charitable causes.
Since taking up the post 15 months ago, Sylvia, who
started as a sales rep at Medtronic in 2001, has further
expanded Medtronic’s impact by consistently delivering
structured and sustainable global philanthropic
programmes that build capacity in underserved
communities, while increasing access to healthcare.
Sylvia is focused on using her story and knowledge
of neuroscience to help break the stigma around
acknowledging emotional health and galvanize black
people to seek help and embark on their own paths towards
mindful healing. So far, she’s reached over 500 people.
A true globetrotter, living in three different countries
and working in more than 20, developing and exceeding
strategic goals is a hallmark of her work; the strategies and
training models she developed have proven beneficial for
businesses, patients, and physicians alike. Sylvia is now
a Senior Global Director in Philanthropy, a position that
lets her use her influential leadership style to advance an
environment of compassion and humanity at work.
Since moving to Minneapolis in 2010, Sylvia has devoted
her free time to improving the health, education and
Joy Odili economic status of underserved communities. She has
Consultant plastic surgeon leadership roles for six prominent non-profit organisations
and is a recipient of a 2014 Bush Foundation Fellowship,
awarded for extraordinary achievement and potential to
Joy Odili was Britain’s first black female consultant plastic lead change and strengthen the community. In 2017, Sylvia
surgeon. She generally practises skin oncology, but she also published her first book, Turning the Tide: Neuroscience,
has a special interest in general plastic surgery, aesthetic Spirituality and My Path Toward Emotional Health.
and reconstructive surgery of the ear and breast, vascular
malformations and weight-loss surgery.
Based at St George’s University NHS Foundation
Hospitals, London, she is an honorary Senior Clinical
Lecturer at St George’s University.
Joy has been the Educational Lead Consultant for plastic
surgery at the hospital, where she has mentored medical
students, taught undergraduate students and been involved
in the open days arranged by the Royal College of Surgeons
(England) and the British Association of Plastic Surgeons,
which introduce school children and medical students to
careers in plastic surgery.
Her support to students has meant that many have gained
invaluable work experience places in her hospitals and she
is keen to work with newer schools and organisations to
promote the role of women in surgery.
Joy practises from the private Hospital of St John and St
Elizabeth, Wimbledon’s Parkside Hospital, and the Portland.
A graduate of Glasgow University Medical School, she
conducted research looking at the detection and treatment
of malignant melanoma. Some of her most notable accolades
include an MD by the University of London and a Hunterian
Professorship by the Royal College of Surgeons for her
research into malignant melanoma in 2002.
Additionally, she is part of the INSPECT group, a network
of European hospitals that are looking at the treatment of
skin cancers with electrochemotherapy.

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