Authors

Adam Saville

Chief Editor, Vitality

With over 15 years experience as a journalist and editor within both the Consumer and B2B space, Adam leads the content strategy across Vitality audiences. He has won multiple awards while editor of Cover Magazine, including Protection Journalist at the HeadlinemoneyAwards (B2B) and twice named Protection Journalist of the Year at Protection Review.

Andrew Isaac

RSPH L4, PT L3

Nutrition & Exercise Advisor, Vitality

Andrew is a Personal Trainer and a Nutrition Advisor for the Royal Society of Public Health. Having navigated his own journey with exercise and nutrition earlier in life, Andrew understands the real-world challenges people face. He is a huge believer of Education is better than Dictation. Believing that when we understand our “Why” and “How”, we’re far more likely to succeed in reaching our goals. His approach focuses on building sustainable habits around nutrition, sleep, and movement to not only extend lifespan, but also health span. Living longer in the best possible health is key to enjoying retirement. Ready for our next adventures of life.

Becky Bargh

Consumer Editor, Vitality

Becky is an award-winning journalist and experienced interviewer, who earnt her writing stripes in the newsroom. Since her newshound days, her byline can be found in various national and international publications for both B2B and consumer audiences.

Dr Harpreet Sarna

Chief Medical Officer, Vitality Health

Dr Harpreet Sarna is Vitality Health’s Chief Medical Officer and Responsible Officer. In this role he leads Vitality’s work in clinical leadership, policy, innovation, quality and medical underwriting. Harpreet’s career has spanned multiple markets and he has worked in life sciences at Pfizer, medical risk and litigation at the Medical Protection Society (the largest global mutual indemnifier for health professionals) and held various roles in clinical practice spanning general practice, psychiatry, hospital and palliative medicine. He has a passion for high-quality, sustainable and accessible health solutions – that meets population and customer needs – and encompasses wellness, prevention and great care. Harpreet is also a Trustee at a national drugs, alcohol and mental health charity, and a keen sportsman playing lots of racquet sports, football and strength training.

Dr Katie Tryon

Chief Commercial Officer, VitalityHealth

Dr Katie Tryon is the Chief Commercial Director for Vitality Health in the UK. In this role she leads Vitality’s work in behaviour change and health improvement, and primary, secondary and tertiary care for members. Prior to this, Katie lived in Kenya for seven years where she served as the Head of Health Strategy for IBM Africa and more recently as Head of Strategy and New Projects for CarePay, a health tech financing platform. Earlier in Katie’s career she was an Engagement Manager at McKinsey and prior to this trained as a medical doctor at Oxford University and Imperial College London. Katie is passionate about the development of sustainable healthcare systems and continues to pursue this through the Vitality model.

Dr Marie Edison

Head of Medical Policy, VitalityHealth

Dr Marie Edison’s background is as a urological surgeon with experience across NHS clinical practice, research and innovation. She is Head of Medical Policy at VitalityHealth, where she leads development of evidence-based policy and clinical guidance, supporting patient safety, efficacy and consistency across pathways and programmes. Before joining Vitality, she co-founded a multidisciplinary post-cancer recovery service and has authored national consensus guidance in urology. Marie also serves on national committees for the British Association of Urological Surgeons (BAUS) and the BURST Research Collaborative and continues to be active in research, education, and standards of care.

Dr Milly Marshall

Medical Advisor, Vitality

Dr Milly Marshall qualified as a doctor in 2020 and has gained broad clinical experience across a wide range of settings, including community-based roles and multiple hospital specialties. She has worked in both the UK and Australia, and her diverse clinical background provides a strong foundation in evidence-based practice and patient centred care. Milly now works as a Medical Advisor at Vitality.

Dr Rishi Patel

MBChB MSc MFPH

Clinical Operations Director, VitalityHealth

Rishi qualified as a doctor in 2012 and has experience working clinically in hospital and community settings, both in the UK and Australia. He also has an academic background having worked in international clinical trials and holds a MSc in Global Health and Epidemiology from Oxford University. Rishi worked as a public health doctor in the NHS between 2018 and 2021 and is currently the Clinical Operations Director at Vitality.

Dr Yvonne Umebuani Beresford

Commercial Medical Director, VitalityHealth

Dr Yvonne Umebuani Beresford is Commercial Medical Director at VitalityHealth. She leads the design, delivery and continuous improvement of clinical pathways that ensure members receive high quality care from early diagnosis through to recovery. Yvonne combines clinical leadership with a strong drive for innovation, using data, technology, and partnerships to make healthcare more personalised, proactive, and accessible. She’s led the redesign of several care pathways, improving access, speeding up diagnosis, and making the patient experience smoother. With a clinical background spanning Orthopaedic Surgery and General Practice, Yvonne brings a unique blend of frontline experience and system-level insight. She was previously the Deputy Chief Medical Officer at the UK’s largest digital health provider, where she helped scale their virtual primary care nationally. Her focus now is on scaling patient-centred care through digital transformation, always with an eye on equity and impact.

Isabel Mohan

Freelance Writer

Isabel started her journalism career in celebrity gossip mags in the early '00s but these days loves writing features and opinion pieces related to health, fitness and body image – especially if she can shine a spotlight on women doing amazing, unexpected things. Her own unexpected thing was getting into running during lockdown after almost 40 years of avoiding exercise. She's since run hundreds of parkruns, quite a few half marathons and even proudly completed London Marathon in 2024. She's obsessed with making people, especially women in midlife, feel more confident when it comes to exercise.   

Jennifer Wallis

Freelance Writer

With more than a decade of experience as a trained freelance journalist, Jennifer began her career as a music journalist – writing for some of the world’s top electronic music magazines. In mid-2019, after embarking on her own healing and wellness journey, she pivoted into writing about wellbeing writing for some of the industry’s top titles and is a regular writer for Vitality. Alongside this Jennifer is a fully trained and qualified meditation teacher and Reiki Master Teacher.

Jonny Kibble

Head of Exercise & Physical Activity, Vitality

Jonny is an experienced Personal Trainer with a Bachelor’s in Sports Science and a range of specialist certifications, enabling him to work effectively with clinical populations requiring tailored exercise interventions. He believes health and fitness should feel doable, not daunting. Although founded in science and research, his approach is practical, realistic, and built around your lifestyle. He focuses on what’s manageable for you, with mindset, habits, and mental wellbeing at the heart of staying motivated and consistent.

Olivia Matsell

Content Executive, Vitality

With a background in holistic health and wellbeing, Olivia combines this love with her ambition to support people to make positive change to their lives through words. Also training as a personal trainer, creating content for Vitality Magazine is just one way she is making an impact.

Sally Shore

Freelance Writer

Sally is a freelance contributor with a background in journalism working for leading lifestyle brands, consumer magazines and B2B audiences. After training as a journalist at Cardiff University, she won a BBC radio documentary award, before travelling the world reporting on the best restaurants and bars. These days Sally uses her editorial skills to help brands with their content, from feature writing to strategy. Living in Brighton, she is a keen cyclist and equestrian.

Silvia Cordoba

Senior Mental Health & Wellbeing Coach, Vitality

Silvia is an experienced psychotherapist with postgraduate training in Dance Movement Psychotherapy and 17 years of experience working in mental health and education. Silvia believes we need to understand ourselves better to live healthier and happier lives and sees mental health as vital to everything we do as human beings. Silvia’s approach is focused on the mind-body connection and how it relates to good mental health and emotional wellbeing, and she brings creativity into her practice as a tool for expression and communication. Silvia is passionate about music, dance, yoga and of course psychotherapy.

Vitality

To make people healthier and to enhance and protect their lives

Our online guide to a healthier life, with inspiration from experts and our very own members. We focus on encouraging healthy living and rewarding people for doing so – a key element of our Shared Value model. Get insider tips on being active, eating well and staying healthy.

Yetunde Bankole

Head of Mental Health and Wellbeing, Vitality

Yetunde has a background in mental health nursing with experience in both inpatient and community clinical settings, as well as the tertiary education sector. She is also a qualified Mental Health First Aid England training instructor is passionate about wellness education and likes to focus on the practical things we can do day-to-day to improve and maintain our mental wellbeing.