Professor T. A. Poulton is the Head of the e-Learning Unit at St George’s University of London – a research and service unit with research focussed chiefly on innovation in the field of virtual patients and curriculum transformation through scenario-based learning. He has obtained 28 national and international grants in that time. His four most relevant major European grants include (i) leadership of the successful EC-funded programme eViP which, researched the feasibility of, and then developed, a bank of VPs for European-wide use (ii) the development of the Tempus ePBLnet programme, and also leading the curriculum transformation element of that project, (iii) the EC-funded WAVES project. He has authored and co-authored more than 80 publications, and delivered more than 60 keynote presentations.