I completed my preclinical and clinical medical training at the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford respectively; this included a research year working as part of the Longo Lab (headed by Professor Frank Longo) at the Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University. I completed my PhD at the Stroke Research Centre, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, under the supervision of Professors David Werring and Rolf Jäger. My thesis focussed on the role of cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) and other cerebral small vessel diseases in cognitive impairment, neurodegeneration and stroke.