James Dear PhD, FRCP

James began his medical training at University College London and completed a PhD in Pharmacology before finishing my clinical training at Brasenose College, Oxford University. After junior medical jobs at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford and a variety of London teaching hospitals, he spent 2 years at a research fellow at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA. This time was spent learning proteomic and imaging techniques as applied to acute kidney injury. Since 2005, he has been a Clinical Lecturer then Consultant/Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer in Clinical Pharmacology at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh/Edinburgh University. In 2012, he was awarded an NHS Research Scotland (NRS) Career Research Fellowship.