Drug development
Phase one to four trials in cardiovascular and antiviral medicine
Across Europe and the United States
The Wellness
General practitioner
Dr Heidi Hamer read microbiology and immunology at Cambridge before studying medicine there. She has spent more than thirty years in practice, and several of them on the other side of medicine entirely, designing and running the clinical trials that bring new drugs to market.
That work took her across Europe and the United States, through every phase of testing in cardiovascular and antiviral medicine. She holds the Diploma in Pharmaceutical Medicine and won the Syntex Award for Research in General Practice. Few GPs understand as precisely how a medicine behaves once it leaves the lab.
Her clinic work covers women’s health and family planning, paediatrics and everyday general practice, and she reviews other doctors’ consultations to keep standards high. She is calm, thorough and hard to surprise, and she does not hurry an appointment.
Contraception, menopause and women’s health, with diploma-level training and the manner that makes a sometimes awkward conversation an easy one.
The full range of everyday medicine, acute and ongoing, from someone who has assessed thousands of urgent problems and knows what is serious and what is not.
A rare understanding of how drugs are developed and tested, brought to bear on your prescriptions, your reviews and your second opinions.
MRCGP
Royal College of General Practitioners
MB BChir
University of Cambridge
MA, Microbiology and Immunology
University of Cambridge
Diploma in Pharmaceutical Medicine
Royal College of Physicians
Diploma in Child Health
Royal College of Physicians
Syntex Award for Research in General Practice
1993
Newnham College, University of Cambridge
Designed and led clinical trials across Europe and the US
Phase one to four
Drug development
Phase one to four trials in cardiovascular and antiviral medicine
Across Europe and the United States
Award
Syntex Award for Research in General Practice
1993
Research
Eosinophilia in acute asthma, general practice study AuditPeer review of remote consultations against the RCGP framework
Current
“I had been fobbed off about the menopause three times before I saw her. She listened, set out the options properly, and I feel like myself again.”
“She does not rush. We went well over my time and she never once looked at the clock.”
“She knew the research on the drug I was worried about better than the specialist who prescribed it. That is rare.”
Allow up to forty-five minutes. Dr Hamer takes a careful history, examines you properly, and gives you a clear plan and the reasoning behind it. Bring any recent letters or results if you have them.
Yes. Women’s health and family planning are a central part of her practice, with the diploma-level training and the unhurried manner to match.
Yes. She assesses the full range of acute and ongoing general practice, in person or by video, and is unusually good at telling what is serious from what is not.
You will receive an itemised receipt suitable for insurance claims. Cover varies by policy, so check your eligibility with your insurer before booking.
Every appointment begins with a proper consultation, careful, unhurried and built on a lifetime of clinical judgement.