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R John Dobbs DCH, MD, FRCP



Graduated from Manchester Medical School, with Surgical Clinical Prize. Accreditations in Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, General Medicine and Geriatric Medicine. As Research Fellow at University College, and then Lecturer in Clinical Pharmacology at St George’s Medical School, London, worked in human cardiovascular pharmacology in normal volunteers and patients, and on isolated tissue preparations (Sir James Black, Nobel Laureate). Spent a year as Senior Medical Officer, Medicines Division (now MHRA), Department of Health, to gain experience in licensing of medicines. Current programme as Clinical Neuropharmacologist at the Institute of Psychiatry, with Honorary Consultant attachments at the Maudsley and in Gastroenterology at King’s College Hospitals. Breaking down clinical and academic boundaries has been crucial to problem solving, wide ranging clinical and scientific experience useful. Together with Drs Sylvia Dobbs, is bringing the full thrust of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics to bear on the management of parkinsonism. This forms a platform for the introduction of research findings, on the role of infection and inflammation in cause and development, into clinical practice.