Professor Hugh Rickards is a self-avowed "HD-nerd".  He loves all things HD and has been running a service for people with HD in Birmingham, UK since 1997.  He's particularly interested in how people with HD view the world.  He founded the HEATED project (Huntington's Equal Access to Effective Drugs) in 2020 to identify any barriers to effective treatment for people with HD and to find ways to overcome them.  He is also the current chair of the Huntington's Disease Association (England and Wales).  In his spare time, he is a barista in the local park and plays the piano a lot.