Oxford Textbook of Medicine: Cardiovascular Disorders

Professor David Warrell is one of the world's leading figures in tropical medicine, and is the founding director of the Centre for Tropical Medicine and Wellcome Trust-Mahidol University Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Programme, Thailand. He has advised, among others, the British Army, the Foreign Office, the Royal Geographic Society and the World Health Organisation, on tropical medicine. Professor Cox is Professor of Medicine at the University of Cambridge, with clinical responsibility in acute internal medicine and metabolic diseases at Addenbrooke's Hospital. He qualified in medicine in 1971 and has conducted scientific investigations principally on inborn errors of metabolism. Dr Firth is a deputy medical directors of Cambridge University Hospitals. He qualified in medicine from University of Cambridge (pre-clinical) and University of Oxford (clinical), trained in general medicine and nephrology in London and Oxford, and first worked as a consultant (supported by the Wellcome Trust) in Oxford before moving to Cambridge as an NHS consultant physician in 1996. He is a Council member and Trustee of the Royal College of Physicians. Consultant Cardiologist and Senior Lecturer John Radcliffe Hospital Oxford. Clinical Lecturer Keble college Oxford. Subspecialty interests: Heart Failure and pulmonary hypertension. Thames Valley Network Lead for Heart failure. Previously: Consultant Cardiologist North Bristol Trust 1994 - 2001. BHF research Fellow 1989 -1992 Oxford.