| I trained at Cambridge and Westminster Medical School, qualifying in 1983. After junior medical training in London and Oxford I became registrar in Cardiology and Clinical Pharmacology at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital. I then became an MRC Clinician Scientist and undertook PhD training at the National Institute for Medical Research with Tony Magee studying posttranslational lipid modifications of small GTP-binding proteins. Thereafter I spent 3 years in Peter Weissberg’s group in Cambridge before being appointed Senior Lecturer in Cardiology in Sheffield, where I am active in coronary intervention and general cardiology and am Director of the Sheffield Clinical Research Facility. My major research interest is non-viral gene delivery using ultrasound, with an increasing involvement in the vascular biology of pulmonary hypertension and some aspects of diabetes. As well as serving on the BSCR committee, I am currently honorary secretary of the British Atherosclerosis Society, Chairman of the Basic Science Panel of Heart Research UK and member of a BHF Project Grants committee. |
