I am Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at University of Manchester, National Institute for Health Research Advanced Fellow, and Honorary Consultant Cardiologist at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust.

I qualified in Medicine with Honours from Manchester in 2003. As an undergraduate I completed an intercalated degree in Physiology, graduating with First Class Honours. Following junior clinical posts on the South Manchester medical rotation, I became a Member of the Royal College of Physicians (UK) in 2006, and in 2007 started as a NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow and Cardiology Registrar. In 2008 I undertook a cardiovascular magnetic resonance training fellowship at Royal Brompton Hospital. In 2010 I was awarded a NIHR Doctoral Research Fellowship, ‘The diagnosis of cardiac allograft disease using cardiovascular magnetic resonance’. In 2013 I undertook a visiting research fellowship in advanced cardiovascular imaging at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, under Andrew Arai, and was awarded a NIHR Clinical Lectureship. In 2016 I was awarded a NIHR Clinician Scientist Fellowship, ‘Targeting the extracellular matrix to improve the outcome of patients with heart failure’. I completed my clinical cardiology training and was appointed as a Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant Cardiologist in Manchester, established clinical services for patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, and cardiomyopathies, at Wythenshawe Hospital, and became the Cardiovascular Medicine Group Leader in the Wellcome Centre for Cell-Matrix Research. I was awarded the 2020 Michael Davies Early Career Award by the British Cardiovascular Society, which is ‘to honour researchers who have recently established themselves as independent investigators and who have made an outstanding contribution to cardiovascular science’. In 2021 I was awarded a NIHR Advanced Fellowship (senior level), ‘Precision medicine to improve the outcome of patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction’, was appointed as Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, and elected to FRCP. I co-lead the Living With and Beyond Cancer theme in the NIHR Manchester BRC.

I am Deputy Chair of the NIHR-BHF Cardiovascular Partnership, Director of the BHF Manchester Centre for Heart and Lung Magnetic Resonance Research, and Associate Medical Director for Research and Innovation at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust. I am a member of the European Heart Failure Association Scientific Committee for Heart Failure with Preserved and Mildly Reduced Ejection Fraction, the British Society for Heart Failure Research Group and the BHF Clinical Research Collaborative Steering Group. I am immediate Past-Chair of the British Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Research Group, and previously served on the British Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Board.

Abdallah Al-Mohammad. Sheffield.

Alistair Revell. Manchester.

Andrew Arai. NIH.

Bernard Keavney. Manchester.

Bill Newman. Manchester.

Cathie Sudlow. BHF Data Science Centre.

Cliff Garratt. Manchester

Erik Schelbert. Minneapolis.

Gerry McCann. Leicester.

James Moon. UCL.

Jamil Mayet. Imperial.

Janine Beezer. Sunderland.

John Greenwood, Leeds.

John Radford. Manchester.

Jorgen Vestbo. Manchester.

Josephine Naish. Manchester.

Karen Piper Hanley. Manchester.

Karl Kadler. Manchester.

Kim Linton. Manchester.

Matthias Schmitt. Manchester.

Mark Petrie. Glasgow.

Martin Wilkins. Imperial.

Niels Peek. Manchester

Paula Williamson. Liverpool.

Peter Kellman, NIH.

Philip Kalra. Manchester.

Rebecca Hyland. Salisbury.

Rob Cooper. Liverpool.

Sanjay Prasad. Imperial.

Simon Ray. Manchester.

Stefan Neubauer. Oxford.

Susanna Dodd. Liverpool.

Sven Plein: Leeds.

Tim Cootes. Manchester.

Theresa McDonagh. Kings.

Tom Lumbers. UCL.

European Heart Failure Society

European Society of Cardiology

Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians

British Cardiovascular Society

Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance

British Society for Heart Failure

British Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance

2021 FRCP

2016 Certificate of Completion of Training in Cardiology

2014 Level 3 Accreditation in Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance

2013 PhD Medicine (Cardiovascular).

2010 British Society of Echocardiography Adult Transthoracic Echocardiography Accreditation

2006 MRCP (UK)

2003 MB ChB with Honours.

2000 First Class BSc with Honours in Physiology.