Dr Ayan Panja (born June 1973, Rochford, Essex) is an English doctor and television presenter.He is a partner in a NHS GP town centre practice in St Albans.Ayan presents and reports for a monthly show on BBC World News called Health Check with Claudia Hammond. He is the resident doctor for the channel and regularly appears on the flagship news programme Impact on a weekly or fortnightly basis covering the latest in global health.