Matthew Ellis

Matthew Ellis (1958-) was born in Liverpool, studied archaeology and anthropology at Cambridge University before training as a paediatric doctor at Alder Hey Hospital. He practiced and researched child health in Ethiopia and Nepal and published a travel health manual for children before returning to the NHS and raising two daughters. He has maintained an academic partnership in child health with Nepali colleagues for 30 years and founded a course in global health at Bristol University where he was a Senior Lecturer. On his retirement from the NHS he cycled to Greece, a journey he writes about in 'Life Cycle - a soul journey to a Greek olive grove' released December 2020 on Kindle. He has since been working on a forthcoming humanitarian adventure story 'Changing Lives' drawing on his experiences in Nepal. He now spends much of his time in the Peloponnese, Greece where he tends his olives, helps to keep the old mulepaths clear and is researching his next work provisionally entitled 'Old Mani Ways'.