Phil Newton

Philip M. Newton, Ph.D. is the Head of Learning and Teaching at Swansea University Medical School in the United Kingdom, where he is also programme director for the Research in Health Professions Education programme. He teaches neuroscience to medical students and the principles of evidence-based education to anyone who will listen.

Phil received his Ph.D from the University of Leeds in the UK where he studied Cell Biology. He was a postdoc and then junior faculty at the University of California, San Francisco where he studied genetic models of posttraumatic stress disorder, alcoholism and addiction to try and determine the neurological basis for these disorders.