David Grimes was born in Salford in 1943, and was brought up in Prestwich, north Manchester. His secondary education was at Stand Grammar School in Whitefield, and then at Manchester University. He qualified in medicine in 1966, undertaking training posts at the Manchester Royal Infirmary. Further training was at St George’s Hospital London as a registrar, returning to Manchester as a senior registrar. In 1977 he was appointed a consultant physician with a special interest in gastroenterology, at the Blackburn hospitals.
His extensive day-to-day clinical practice meant that the wards and the outpatient clinics became his focus for research. This clinical experience together with extensive reading and research led to his realisation that vitamin D held the key to understanding many illnesses after he realised that his darker skinned and less sun exposed patients were especially prone to illness. He believes that the main thing predisposing people to severe outcomes when they suffer from infections is vitamin D deficiency. For a thesis based on his research he was awarded the degree of MD University of Manchester in 1993.
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