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Dr. Ross Nortley graduated with first-class honors in medicine from Queen's University Belfast in 2003. While at medical school, he won The Musgrave Prize for Pathology, the Foundation Scholarship, and the Thompson Medal for Medicine.

After completing his first year as a practicing doctor at The Royal Victoria Hospital Belfast, Dr. Nortley was awarded the Allison Postgraduate Clinical Prize for outstanding clinical merit. Continuing his postgraduate training on the Hammersmith Hospital medical rotation, he then took positions in the liver transplant unit at King's College Hospital, followed by the intensive care unit at St. Thomas' Hospital, and finally renal medicine unit at Guy's Hospital. He then completed a four-year neurology specialist training program at King's College Hospital, Guys & St Thomas' Hospital, The National Hospital for Neurology & Neurosurgery, Queen Square, and The John Radcliffe Hospital.

Dr. Nortley was awarded a Wolfson Ph.D Clinical Academic Fellowship in 2012 to conduct translational research into neurodegenerative diseases at The National Hospital for Neurology & Neurosurgery and University College London. His groundbreaking work on deciphering how brain blood flow is reduced in Alzheimer's disease earned him worldwide recognition when published in the prestigious scientific journal Science in 2019. In addition to general neurology, Dr. Nortley specializes in cognitive disorders/dementia and provides specialist cognitive & memory services at The National Hospital for Neurology & Neurosurgery.