I am a consultant gastroenterologist - an 'internal medicine' physician - working at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge since 2002.

I studied clinical medicine in Cambridge from 1984-1987 as a scholar at Christ's College and then as a clinical student at St Thomas' Hospital in London from 1987-1990.  

I graduated with a first class honours degree from Cambridge and was awarded the Darwin Prize in natural sciences, and the Staines-Read prize in morbid anatomy; I was awarded prizes in clinical medicine, pathology, preventive medicine, immunology and paediatrics at St Thomas' hospital and graduated with honours in medicine and pathology.

I worked in junior doctor posts in London - at Guy's hospital, St Thomas' hospital, King's College hospital, the Hammersmith hospital and Kingston hospital - before undertaking specialist gastroenterology training in the West Midlands, working in Walsall, West Bromwich, and central Birmingham hospitals.

Towards the end of my specialist training I completed a PhD thesis on the the development of lymphocytes in the intestinal lining, under the supervision of professors Eric Jenkinson and John Owen, FRS in the department of anatomy at Birmingham University.

I was appointed as consultant gastroenterologist and physician in Addenbrooke's hospital in Cambridge in 2002 where I became head of department in 2019.  

To read more about my consultant career please click here.