Dr Rhys Roberts

Academic Background and Clinical Training:

Dr Roberts trained at the University of Cambridge, graduating with consecutive First Class results for his undergraduate BA(Hons) in Natural Sciences in 1997, followed by being awarded Distinctions in Medicine, Surgery and Obstetrics and Gynaecology during his Final MB BChir examinations in 2002. As a clinical student, he was part of the University MB PhD programme, working at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge and later as a visiting Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Southern Denmark, leading to the award of a PhD in 2002.

Following post-graduate training in medicine at the Hammersmith and Whittington Hospitals in London, Dr Roberts completed higher specialist training in Neurology in the East of England, working at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery at Queen Square in London. During this time, he developed an academic research interest in diseases of the peripheral nerves, particularly the Charcot-Marie-Tooth diseases, and was awarded a Wellcome-Beit Prize and Intermediate Clinical Fellowship from the Wellcome Trust in 2011. He has published numerous original research papers is a principal investigator in a number of ongoing multi-centre clinical studies.

Current NHS position:

Dr Roberts was appointed a Consultant Neurologist at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge in 2011 and sees patients presenting with a wide variety of neurological symptoms both in the outpatient and inpatient settings. He is currently the Specialty Lead for Neurology at Addenbrooke's. Dr Roberts runs the specialist peripheral nerve service in Cambridge and is also Director of the Cambridge Motor Neurone Disease (MND) Care Centre, providing multidisciplinary input to people and their families living with MND across the East of England.

Dr Roberts is heavily involved with medical education and is currently the Training Programme Director for Neurology in the East of England and is an Associate Lecturer at the University of Cambridge. He is also the Vice Chair of the Neurology Specialty Advisory Committee at the JRCPTB (Joint Royal Colleges of Physicians Training Board), which is the national body that oversees the training of neurologists in the UK.

Professional Memberships:

Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP)
Association of British Neurologists
British Peripheral Nerve Society