Prof. Nigel Lawes

After acquiring a medical degree Prof. Lawes worked as a clinical scientist with the Medical Research Council at the Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London.  Following that, Prof Lawes became a lecturer in anatomy at Sheffield University.  After Sheffield, he taught neuroscience to physiotherapy students at the University of East London.  His next move was to St Georges, University of London.  There he taught on several degree courses, but mainly on two medical courses, including the graduate-entry, problem-based course that has been adopted here in Limerick.  From London he moved to Limerick to participate in our new Graduate Entry Medical School, delivering the same problem-based course.  He has also spent much of the last 25 years giving short neuroscience courses to graduate physiotherapists.  Previous research involved the autonomic innervation of the stomach and the anatomy of brains.  Recent research has involved diffusion tensor imaging, a magnetic resonance imaging technique that looks at white matter pathways in living human brains.