I am a Consultant Cardiologist at the Heart Hospital, University College London. I qualified from the University of Southampton, School of Medicine in 1992 and completed my postgraduate specialist training in cardiology at the Sussex Cardiac Centre, Brighton and St George's Hospital, London. I was awarded a MD degree from Imperial College, London after completing my thesis on the clinical problem of heart failure with preserved systolic function. I have published many papers in the field of heart failure and I am a certified cardiac device specialist of the Heart Rhythm Society, USA. I undertook a one-year senior fellowship in the advanced heart failure and cardiac transplantation service at the Royal Perth Hospital in Western Australia.I am trained in all aspects of general cardiology but have specialist interests in the management of heart failure and device therapy, including pacemaker, cardiac resynchronisation and defibrillator implantation.