Dr Peter Fletcher

Dr Peter Fletcher is a Consultant Physician in the Department of Old Age Medicine at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. He specializes in Movement Disorders and shares service delivery with colleagues in Medicine for the Elderly, Neurology, Psychiatry as well as nursing and the allied health professions. He runs clinics on 5 sites across a very rural county and leads a special interest group. He is a founder member of and educational advisor to the Pd Academy and has contributed to all Masterclasses from their inception in 2002 to date. He is immediate past chair of the British Geriatrics Society Movement Disorders Section and president of the Cheltenham branch of the Parkinson’s Disease Society. He is the local principal investigator for the PDMED (Pd medicines) and the PDGEN (Pd genetics) studies and will lead locally for the PDREHAB (Pd rehabilitation) study. He is also a Senior Lecturer and an Undergraduate Medical Dean at the University of Bristol. He has an MSc in Medical Education and leads for the Medical School on inter-professional learning and personal and professional development in the curriculum. He examines for