Dr Jonny Acheson

Emergency Medicine doctor living with Parkinson’s
University Hospitals Of Leicester NHS Trust

Jonny has been an Emergency Medicine Consultant in Leicester since 2009. His Postgraduate Emergency Medicine education work from 2012-2015 was recognised nationally with an HSJ award in 2016 and he was appointed as an Honorary Associate Professor in Medical Education the same year. Having been the Clinical Lead for Assessment at the University of Leicester Medical School he is now working with the GMC implementing the CPSA. Diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 2016 he strives to live as well as he can everyday with a focus on exercise, diet and reducing stress. He took up art as a hobby again a few years ago and uses this to educate about Parkinson’s but also to draw people’s pets and nursery wall art.