Prof. Jeremy Hobart is a consultant neurologist at University Hospitals Plymouth National Health Service Trust, UK, and Professor at the Peninsula Dental School and Peninsula Medical School, University of Plymouth. One of his interests is the diagnosis and management of people living with multiple sclerosis (MS), and he is President of the South Devon branch of the MS Society.

A primary research interest of Prof. Hobart’s is rating scales for measuring health outcomes, demonstrated by his PhD in psychometrics from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (under Prof. Donna Lamping), post-doctoral attachments to the University of Chicago (under Prof. Ben Wright) and, more recently, a secondment to Murdoch University Perth, Western Australia (under Prof. David Andrich).