Professor Kim Fox, Professor of Clinical Cardiology, has accepted appointment as Head of Department for the National Heart and Lung Institute (NHLI) in the Faculty of Medicine, from 1 September 2011. He will succeed Professor Michael Schneider who has led NHLI since 1 January 2009. Professor Schneider has relinquished his role as Head of Department to devote his full efforts to developing the College’s basic and translational cardiovascular research, including strategic recruitment and the relocation of activities to the new L Block at the Hammersmith Campus.
Professor Fox was appointed Registrar at Hammersmith Hospital in 1976 where he completed his early clinical and research training as both Research Fellow and Senior Registrar. He was awarded his MD in 1980 and appointed to the staff of the National Heart Hospital in 1982. He has been a Consultant at the Royal Brompton Hospital since 1990 and appointed Professor of Clinical Cardiology at Imperial College in 2002. Previously he was Editor-in-Chief of the European Heart Journal from 1995-2002 and President of the European Society of Cardiology from 2006-2008. His research has focused on the understanding, investigation and treatment of angina and he chaired the European Angina Guidelines Task Force.
Rodney Eastwood
College Secretary