I qualified from the University of Wales, College of Medicine (now part of Cardiff University) in 2003 and completed my postgraduate training in Wales. I gained membership of the Royal College of GPs in 2007 and continue to work part-time as a GP in East Lancashire alongside my academic role. From 2008-14, I was site co-investigator in 9 multi-site Phase II-Phase IV research studies at the GP surgery in Cheshire where I was practising. I also completed my MSc in Allergy at Imperial College, London in September 2014, for which I was awarded the Dean's Prize for Allergy in 2015. My dissertation reported on our pragmatic randomised controlled trial involving recommendation for protective measures against respiratory infections, for which the treatment group received standard advice plus advice to take probiotic capsules and their free availability. I was appointed to the new position of Mackenzie Primary Care Research Fellow at UCLan in November 2017, which is funded by East Lancashire CCG for a fixed term of 2 years. I was supervisor for the 2018 UCLan Undergraduate Research Intern Project that won the undergraduate poster presentation prize.