Dominic Friston

I first studied Neuroscience at the University of Nottingham with a Master’s year in Tokyo, before settling at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital under Imperial College London for a PhD in Clinical Medicine Research. My work there was an enjoyable basic science project elucidating mechanisms of pain and inflammation in burn injury. I was based alongside the hospital’s burns unit and found myself motivated for more directly clinically relevant work, and so subsequently studied medicine. I stayed in London and worked as a doctor in a variety of areas over the foundation programme, including Acute Internal Medicine, Trauma Surgery, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Intensive Care Medicine and General Practice, coming to appreciate the crucial importance both of well-directed, up to date clinical guidance and of taking opportunities to identify and intervene in pathology promptly in the community where possible. I identified OPC/OPRI as a brilliant opportunity to facilitate and perform clinical research targeting these areas and am very excited to have joined as a Medical Scientist set to work on CONQUEST among other projects.