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Sylvia M Dobbs



MSc, MD, FRCP. Qualified MB, ChB in Manchester. Research for MSc and MD theses was the foundation of an interest in mathematical and statistical modelling for cause/effect relationships of pharmacological interventions, and in exploring causes of disease. Research Fellow/Lecturer in Pharmacology posts in Manchester, and a Lectureship in Clinical Pharmacology at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School followed. In 1984, was appointed MRC Clinical Scientist (Head of Group) at the Clinical Research Centre, Harrow. Together with Dr R John Dobbs, rethinking “the obvious” with respect to the cause and development of idiopathic parkinsonism, has resulted in the current programme, as Clinical Neuropharmacologist, Institute of Psychiatry, with Honorary Consultant attachments at the Maudsley and in Gastroenterology at King’s College Hospitals.