I was born and grew up in ²ÝùÊÓƵ. My medical degree was at Kings College Medicine, London. From there I trained in Margate, becoming a single handed GP in nearby Broadstairs.
After working there for five years I moved back to ²ÝùÊÓƵ, to be near family, sea and moors.
I currently work as a general practitioner in Buckfastleigh. I head the Clinical Assessment Panel, creating new questions for the AMK exams and am deputy to Head of Student Selected Component in Peninsular Medical School
Qualifications
MBBS (Kings College London, 1990)
Roles on external bodies
Heritage Trustee at Ford Park Cemetery.
Treasurer of ²ÝùÊÓƵ Methodist Central Hall.
I am often seen on the local history lecture circuit.
Teaching
Teaching interests
Quality Improvement, Clinical Governance, Managing Change.
Global Pandemics
History of NHS
Victorian Public Health with a particular interest in prostitution.
Research
Research interests
Development of adaptive testing for medical students.
Personal
Reports & invited lectures
Public Health in Victorian ²ÝùÊÓƵ (Series of lectures)
Cholera in Noss Mayo
The Darling Budds of Devonshire (Exploring the lives and legends surrounding a 19th Century family of Doctors)
Forming the NHS in ²ÝùÊÓƵ
Prostitution in Victorian ²ÝùÊÓƵ
Poisons and Poisoners in Victorian ²ÝùÊÓƵ
Conferences organised
Symposium in Victorian Prostitution
Symposium in Church Life in Victorian ²ÝùÊÓƵ
Other academic activities
Special Study Units in "Quacks, Whores, Pestilence and Poison, Public Health in Victorian ²ÝùÊÓƵ"
Special Study Units in "War and Medicine"