I graduated in Experimental Psychology from the University of Oxford in 1993 and subsequently completed a DPhil in Oxford studying the neuropathology of Schizophrenia from which I completed in 1997.

I then trained in medicine at the University of Birmingham from 1997-2002. Following this, I moved to Sheffield, to train in neuropathology, gaining the European Fellowship of Neuropathology in 2008 and FRCPath in 2009.

On completing this training in 2009, I took up an MRC/Motor Neurone Disease Association Lady Edith Wolfson Fellowship to study Motor neurone disease. I became a Senior Clinical Lecturer in Neuropathology in 2012.

I also work as a Consultant Neuropathologist for the South and East Yorkshire Neuropathology Network, which provides diagnostic neuropathology services to the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and the Hull and East Yorkshire NHS Trust. I am also a Royal College Examiner.

I am a consultant pathologist at University Hospitals Plymouth. My interests are autopsy pathology, skin and thoracic pathology. I enjoy the challenge of autopsy pathology and am autopsy clinical lead at University Hospital Plymouth. I plan to take over as DI over the next year, and am shadowing this role. I am also lead for the CHAT exam. Plymouth is a port and naval dockyard and we see much asbestos related lung disease, as well as trauma, immersion in water and toxicological cases. I am a keen educator and regularly teach in autopsy and thoracic pathology locally and regionally. I am looking forward to working on the pathology portal to add my extensive teaching slide collection. I am involved in undergraduate education teaching year 4 in the professionalism domain at medical school as well as year 3 pathology. I am involved in some ongoing educational research and innovation.