My current role
In my current role as an academic clinician with a research interest in how oxygen availability affects development, focusing on the programming of cardiovascular traits (eg. high blood pressure). This includes research into how low oxygen delivery in pregnancy impacts the long-term cardiovascular health of the baby. I also study the mechanisms underlying hereditary syndromes causing tumours of the adrenals and paraganglia (pheochromocytoma/ paraganglioma), which are strongly associated with genetic mutations affecting oxygen sensing.
I deliver outpatient and inpatient specialist hypertension services. A large part of this work involves screening patients for secondary causes of high blood pressure, including possible genetic causes.
I am involved in teaching pharmacology across all levels of medical training, including lecture provision for Cambridge University Clinical School and undergraduate pharmacology courses. I also contribute to the Genomic Medicine Master’s program, where I co-lead and examine a module on Pharmacogenomics: the study of genetic factors contributing to individual variation in the response to drugs, and how this can be used to optimise drug safety and efficacy.
Previous history
I studied pre-clinical Medicine at Gonville and Caius college, Cambridge, followed by Clinical Medicine at the University of Oxford. I completed the Academic Foundation Programme in Oxford before going on to train in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, working in Basingstoke, Southampton, and Oxford.
I completed my DPhil in Oxford in 2018 and subsequently gained an Academic Clinical Lecturership in Clinical Pharmacology through the Experimental Medicine Initiative. (opens in a new tab)
Alongside my training in Clinical Pharmacology, I also undertook a post-doctoral Clinical Fellowship at the Francis Crick Institute, and I was awarded a Wellcome Early Career Fellowship in 2023.
Membership and accreditations
- Fellowship of the Royal College of Anaesthetists (FRCA)
- Membership of the British and Irish Hypertension Society
- Wellcome Trust Early Career Fellow
Personal interests
I am a keen long distance runner and I enjoying competing in local races. I enthusiastically recommend running as a form of exercise that is free, widely accessible, and great for both physical and mental health.