Dr Helen Ashdown

Gender: Female
Primary qualifications: BMBCh MA (Cantab) MRCP MRCGP DCH PGDip (Health Research)

Dr Ashdown works in the practice on Tuesdays and has clinical interests in respiratory disease and child health. She also teaches basic life support to the team. Dr Ashdown is an academic GP and spends most of her time as a clinical researcher at the University of Oxford where she is carrying out research into the primary care diagnosis and management of respiratory disease.

She is Research Lead of the Primary Care Respiratory Society and Tutor at Somerville College where she teaches medical students. She enjoys hillwalking (now with children in tow) and her claim to fame is winning an IgNobel prize for her research on speed bumps in the diagnosis of appendicitis!