Trained in medicine at the University of Southampton then spent two years training in adult medicine at Southampton University Hospitals. She trained in paediatrics in Nottingham, Oxford, the Hospital for Sick Children Great Ormond Street, New Zealand, and Manchester and trained in paediatric endocrinology in Manchester whilst studying for her DM thesis on the late effects of childhood cancer. This was followed by a post as a clinical lecturer in paediatrics at the University of Oxford (based in the neonatal unit) where she commenced her research into the endocrinology of the new-born. She has...