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Finbar initially graduated from Oxford with a MA (Hons) in Modern History in 1983 before going on to study medicine at Bristol University Medical School, graduating in 1990. He worked as a junior paediatrician in Bristol, Bath and Birmingham before undertaking a Fellowship in Neonatology at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada. On returning to the UK, he was awarded a Wellcome Trust training fellowship in clinical epidemiology, completing an MSc in Epidemiology at University of London and Diploma of London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, before working with the MRC Environmental Epidemiology Unit in Southampton. This was followed by appointment as Senior Clinical Research Fellow at the National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford where he ran the Oxford Registry of Early Childhood Impairment (ORECI). He was awarded his PhD in Clinical Epidemiology from the University of Bath in 2002. Finbar completed his paediatric neurology training in Southampton and was appointed Consultant Paediatric Neurologist in Bristol in 2003. He was appointed Reader in Paediatric Neurology at the University of Bristol in 2011. He moved to UCL GOS Institute of Child Health in 2013 and was appointed Professor of Paediatric Neuroscience in 2017. Currently his clinical work is based predominantly at Great Ormond Street Hospital but he continues to run the supra-regional tuberous sclerosis clinic in Bath.

Finbar was President of the British Paediatric Neurology Association (2018-2020) and was previously Secretary of the European Paediatric Neurology Society (2013-2017). He was appointed Fellow of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health in 2004 and Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 2010.