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Nick Ward trained in medicine at Charing Cross & Westminster Hospital in London, where he obtained an intercalated degree in Neuropharmacology. His postgraduate training in neurology continued at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, and the Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel. In 1999, he was awarded a Clinical Fellowship in Stroke Medicine by the Stroke Association. He then joined Professor Richard Frackowiak at the Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging (WCHN) at UCL as a Wellcome Trust funded clinical research fellow, using fMRI to study motor recovery after stroke. His work earned him an MD from the University of London. In 2003, he was appointed Consultant Neurologist at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, where he was awarded a Wellcome Intermediate Clinical Fellowship to investigate the relationship between post-stroke brain function and motor impairment. In 2007, he received the HEFCE ‘new blood’ Clinical Senior Lecturership and was promoted to Reader in Clinical Neurology in 2011, followed by his appointment as Professor in Clinical Neurology and Neurorehabilitation in the Department of Clinical and Motor Neuroscience at UCL in 2017. He established the Queen Square Upper Limb Neurorehabilitation Programme, an intensive rehabilitation service for stroke patients, which also became a focus for related research into stroke motor recovery at UCL.