My current role
I work part time (40%) looking after acutely sick patients in the medical admissions unit and in our ambulatory care unit in Clinic 5.
I am vice chair of the Clinical Ethics Advisory Group within the hospital, and of the system wide ethics committee within the region. I chair resuscitation services in the hospital, and am on the executive of the Resuscitation council UK, where I also chair the subcommittee for ReSPECT (Recommended Summary Plan for Emergency Care and Treatment).
This clinical work links with the research I do in applied clinical ethics. I am focused on identifying areas of clinical practice that raise ethical questions and applying rigorous empirical and ethical analysis to explore the issues and find effective solutions.
I lead undergraduate medical ethics teaching for medical students at the University of Cambridge, and am actively involved in teaching students throughout their six year course. I am interested in how system changes can improve patient care and trainees’ education.
Previous history
I studied Medicine at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and Imperial College London, qualifying in 2001. I trained in Acute Medicine in London and Cambridge, while also undertaking a PhD at the University of Warwick, and took up a consultant post at Addenbrooke's in 2012.
Membership/ accreditations
- 2018 Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP).
- 2016 PhD, University of Warwick.
- 2004 Member of the Royal College Physicians (MRCP).
- 1998—2001 MBBS (Hons), Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine.
- 1995—1998 BA (Hons), Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge.
Personal interests
Luckily some of my personal interests elide with my professional ones: I like reading and teaching and writing – I have advised on and written children's books for Usbourn on the Human Body and on coming to hospital. I also like theatre and music, and can be found listening to (and sometimes preforming!) both.