Education
Everything I believe about teaching comes down to one sentence, learned the hard way:
My dyslexia, diagnosed only in 2017 after years of teaching others, taught me the same lesson from the inside: education fails when it cannot adapt to the learner.
Five years at the bedside of teaching
From 2013 to 2018 I was a Clinical Teaching Fellow, teaching University of Nottingham medical students at Lincoln County Hospital. That classroom became my laboratory. My MMedSci thesis created (PBL-SGT)-Fusion, an active-learning method that combines problem-based learning with small-group teaching and uses pre-test diagnostics to adapt each session’s difficulty to the learners in the room.
It worked better than I dared hope: junior-phase students mastered material written for students two phases ahead. The full story is on the research page.
WatMed Educational and the ID Medical School
Alongside the fellowship I founded WatMed Educational and ran it from 2013 to 2019, teaching more than 500 postgraduate professionals at weekend courses in clinical skills, consultation skills and communication skills. In partnership with ID Medical, a UK healthcare staffing agency, I created and delivered the ID Medical School programme.
Mentoring, then and now
I joined the NHS Clinical Entrepreneur programme in 2017 and have been a Programme Mentor since 2019. This has instilled a deep belief in paying it forward. Most recently, at Bayer, I have been a dedicated developer of talent, working with over 24 early career colleagues helping accelerate their careers. My guiding philosophy: help them achieve career milestones earlier than I achieved them. This is across dual students on placement with Bayer from the Berlin School of Economics and Law, apprentices and graduates. In 2026 I recruited and mentored Sacit Can Soyen, a bioengineering intern who graduated with distinction (1,0 - 1,0), and served as second supervisor of his thesis on generative AI and Generative Engine Optimisation in cardiovascular therapeutics (Hochschule Rhein-Waal, 2026). The same adaptive teaching, applied at the frontier of the intelligence age.
How I supervise technical work without pretending to be the technician:
I read specialist science and comprehend code the way I read an X-ray: not as the radiologist, but well enough to see what matters, ask the right questions, and coach specialists into great teachers.