Following undergraduate training in St Andrews and Manchester Universities, Prof. Sandy Thomson completed higher specialist training in geriatric medicine in the North-Western Deanery. Prof Thomson is a consultant physician and geriatrician at Salford Royal Hospital, where he has worked since 2007. He was awarded fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians in 2011 & is currently a Censor at the RCP London.

Since 2011, he has been education lead for the MSc in Geriatric Medicine at the University of Salford, where he is also lead for the gerontology module. In 2021 he was awarded an honorary chair recognising his role in the masters programme. He has worked for the Royal College of Physicians as a PACES examiner and question-writer for the Specialist Certificate Examination in geriatric medicine. He now chairs the SCE question-writing groups and is a member of the Standard Setting Board.