I live in Bristol with my wife and two children. I do my clinical work at North Bristol NHS Trust and University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust, where I consult on the microbiology service (and occasionally do a bit of ID)

Personal interests
Sports, coffee, and arguing about p-values.

Background

I originally trained in Sheffield for medicine, did my foundation training in Bristol, and did academic training in infection in Bristol. I spent 6 months in New Zealand (Dunedin) doing ED, and a few months in Malawi doing general medicine.

My PhD was at the University of Bristol under Nic Timpson FMedSciand Peter Ghazal FMedSci, where I worked on the genetics of infection susceptibility and severity. At the same time, David Arnold and I spent a lot of time developing a respiratory infection interest that has led to a number of RCTs in pneumonia [ASPECT, n >3000 and counting] and pleural infection. Dave has done all of the work for this.

My post-doctoral time has been supervised by George Davey Smith FRS at the MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, but I’ve worked closely with lots of people, including Alex Mentzer at Oxford, Guillaume Butler-Laporte at McGill/Oxford, Gabriele Pollara at UCL, and a bunch of other folk.