Current Appointment:

  • Consultant Cardiovascular Physician and Clinical Hypertension Specialist, Barts Health Trust
  • NHS Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, NIHR Barts CV BRU, William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary University London

Positions of responsibility:

  • Director Barts Blood Pressure Clinic
  • Chair Joint UK Societies Consensus Group for Renal Denervation
  • Section Editor ‘Hypertension’ Journal of the American College of Cardiology (from 06/2015)
  • Chief Investigator EnligHTN II study, ROX Coupler Study and ROX Global Registry
  • Steering Committee Member: Target BP1 Study, CALM 2 Study, Radiance Pivotal Trial
  • Principal Investigator Wave IV Study
  • Special Adviser to NICE: Renal Denervation/Baroreflex Activation
  • Former Chair of Trust New Drugs Committee and Co-Chair Trust Prescribing Group

Medical School:

  • University of Manchester Medical School

Qualifications:

  • 1989

    Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery MB ChB.

Post Graduate:

  • 2015

    Fellow of the British Hypertension Society

  • 2010

    Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP London)

  • 2000

    PhD Thesis (Vascular Biology), University of London

Registration

  • The General Medical Council (No: 3325506)

Specialty Training:

  • Clinical Hypertension Specialist of the European Society of Hypertension
  • Cardiovascular and General Internal Medicine
  • Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics

Professional Memberships:

  • Fellow of the American College of Cardiology
  • Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology
  • Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, London
  • Fellow of the British Hypertension Society

Consultancy

  • Advisory boards: Medtronic, St Jude Medical, Cardiosonic, ROX Medical
  • Board Member: GiveBackBox® (Los Angeles, California, USA)