Professor Timothy Roach was educated at the Lodge School, Barbados, and proceeded to
Clare College, Cambridge, and the Westminster Hospital, London, to complete his
medical degree.

After postgraduate studies at the University of Leeds and at the Royal Brompton Hospital, he returned to Barbados as a Consultant in Medicine at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in 1981. His major interests are in Pulmonary Medicine, HIV/AIDS, Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine, and Sleep disorders.

At the QEH, he was Head of the Respiratory Unit and Director of the AIDS Management Team. He has published research in Asthma, HIV, and Diving disorders and was appointed as Honorary Professor of Respiratory Medicine, University of the West Indies, in 2011. In 2012, he was awarded the Gold Crown of Merit, Barbados, for services to Medicine.

He is a past president of the Barbados Cancer Society, a past member of the National HIV/AIDS Commission, and is a commissioned reserve officer in the Barbados Defence Force.

Professor Roach retired from the QEH in 2016 but continues his interest in clinical medicine and, as Director of the Belleville Sleep Centre, is actively promoting the benefits of restful sleep. He is married to Catherine, a retired nursing tutor, and has one son, James, a qualified helicopter pilot.