Tom is an Ear Nose and Throat Surgery Registrar in the Mersey Deanery with an interest in Paediatrics.
He graduated in Medicine in London from Imperial College and then trained as a junior doctor whilst living in Swindon, Bath, Bristol and Brighton.
He studied for the Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene at LSTM in 2013. Tom has contributed to health system strengthening projects in Mozambique, Ethiopia, Tanzania and Sierra Leone and humanitarian de-mining efforts with the HALO Trust in Columbia, Cambodia and Afghanistan.
He is planning to relocate to Malawi where he will undertake part of his PhD research at the Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme in Blantyre, focusing on developing a health systems intervention for school age children's hearing loss with regional experts.
Tom's research interests include any interdisciplinary work allied to ENT including hearing, speech, communication, the airway and antimicrobial resistance. He's interested in health impacts through the lifecourse and research into socioeconomic deprivation.