Personal Statement
I am the NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Hearing Health through the Lifecourse and work in the Department of Eye and Vision Science at the Institute of Life Course and Medical Science, University of Liverpool. I also work at the Liverpool Head and Neck Centre based at Aintree Hospital and as an ENT senior registrar in the North West including at Aintree and Alder Hey Hospitals.

My research interests span any interdisciplinary work allied to ENT.
My current research includes:
a) Hearing, Speech, Communication and Paediatric outcome measures
b) Human factors, Sound and Noise.
c) Global Health and Public Health, focusing on health impacts through the lifecourse, inequity in treatment outcomes and research into socioeconomic deprivation.

Tom 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 the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) in 2013. Following this Tom contributed to Global Health research and teaching through health system strengthening projects around surgery, trauma and ENT in Mozambique, Ethiopia, Tanzania and Sierra Leone and humanitarian de-mining with the HALO Trust in Columbia, Cambodia, Malawi and Afghanistan.
He completed a Wellcome funded PhD in Global Health based at the Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme in Blantyre, focusing on developing a health systems intervention using frugal assistive technology for school age children's hearing loss with regional experts.