David Choi graduated with a first class degree in Medical Sciences from Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and went on to complete clinical medicine at Edinburgh University. He completed basic surgical training at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary, and started Neurosurgical training at the Glasgow Institute of Neurological Sciences. He obtained a PhD in neuroregeneration at the National Institute for Medical Research, London, and completed higher surgical training in Neurosurgery at Atkinson Morley's Hospital, London, and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery. He was appointed as a Consultant in Neurosurgery at Queen Square in 2005, and as Clinical Senior Lecturer at the UCL Institute of Neurology in 2009.