Dr. Tom Nichols is the IT Director at the Global Research Network. Having qualified as a General Practitioner (Family Doctor) in 2003, he qualified with Merit upon joining the Royal College of General Practitioners in 2008. Since then, Tom has developed a career in Clinical Informatics (the IT subfield related to Health Care) with a special interest in IT used in General Practice. Tom has also worked as a tutor to medical students at the University of Oxford prior to his current role as the GP Clinical Lead for IT at the local health authority, where he runs two development teams.