Tony Avery is a GP, Professor of Primary Health Care and an NIHR Senior Investigator. He is also National Clinical Director for Prescribing. He undertook his undergraduate medical degree at the University of Sheffield; completed GP training in Nottingham and has been a clinical academic at the University of Nottingham since 1992. He led a major expansion of the Division of Primary Care from 1998 - 2012, securing membership of the NIHR School for Primary Care Research in 2009. He was appointed as the Director of Research for the School of Medicine in 2013 and was Dean and Head of School 2015-2019.