Dr Gashirai Mbizvo is one of the most decorated young Zimbabwean doctors working in the diaspora. Dr Mbizvo is a specialist registrar in neurology at The Walton Centre – the UK’s only specialised centre for neurology and neurosurgery. He is a Member of the UKs Royal College of Physicians, having passed all three parts of the examination in just over a year. He has extensive clinical experience in both general medicine and neurology and was ranked third in the UK’s open competition for entry into the national neurology training programme in 2019. He graduated from Liverpool Medical School with Honours grade in 2012, obtaining Distinction grade in an intercalated Masters in Clinical Research, and he was subsequently ranked second (of 87 applicants) in open competition for general medical training in 2014. Following general medicine, he branched out into clinical research and commenced a three-year PhD programme at The University of Edinburgh in 2016, exploring epilepsy-related mortality using nationwide datasets. Dr Mbizvo has since published over 30 scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals and presented his research at a similar number of international conferences. This includes a specialised invitation to the Scottish Houses of Parliament to present his work on mortality to various Members of the Scottish Parliament in 2019. Dr Mbizvo has won several prestigious awards over the years, including runner up in the Clinical Neurology Prize 2020 at the European Academy of Neurology (the biggest neurology conference in history, attended by 42,500 neurologists from across the world), the Charles Symonds Prize for best neurology platform presentation at the Association of British Neurologists Annual Meeting 2019, Best Oral Platform Presentation Prize at the Internationale League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) British Chapter conference in 2018, and the Best Overall Presentation Prize at the Scottish Association of Neurological Sciences Annual Meeting in 2017. Dr Mbizvo plans to continue working both as a clinician and researcher in neurology and eventually plans to dedicate a significant amount of his time to helping to educate other young Zimbabwean doctors on clinical neurology as well as academic research methods.
Outside of clinical work, Dr Mbizvo takes a keen interest in investment, particularly in emerging markets. His adventurous investment portfolio, through St. James's Place Wealth Management, spans asset classes mainly in Asia and Pacific, North American, UK, and European Equity.