He is Cephalon Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine & Epidemiology at the University of Warwick and Consultant Cardiovascular Physician at University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust. He is Head of the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Nutrition and Director of the E.S.H. Centre of Excellence in Hypertension and Cardio-Metabolic Research. He is the Immediate Past-President, British and Irish Hypertension Society. He graduated in Medicine at the Federico II University Medical School in Naples in 1981 and moved to the UK in 1983. He trained in General Medicine (with Cardiovascular and Hypertension) at Charing Cross and St George's Hospitals, and in Public Health in the North Thames Region in London. He obtained a Master in Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 1993 and was awarded a DSc at the University of Warwick in 2012. He holds FRCP, FFPH, FBIHS, FAOP, FAHA and FESC.
