David Oxborough is Reader in Cardiovascular Physiology at Liverpool John Moores University and a member of the Liverpool Centre for Cardiovascular Science. He is also an echocardiographer with over 20 years of experience in primary, secondary and tertiary healthcare settings. He has been awarded a fellowship from the British Society of Echocardiography (BSE) and is the Co-lead of the Research and Audit Committee and a member of the Education Committee. As an academic and researcher, Dr Oxborough has published over 120 peer reviewed papers on quantitative echocardiography and its application in Clinical and Exercise Cardiology. He has continuously worked in the imaging-based assessment of sudden cardiac death syndromes and pre-participation screening environment and has screened thousands of athletes contributing significantly to our understanding of the Athlete’s Heart and its differentiation from cardiomyopathy. Prof Oxborough is also an Associate Editor for EHJ Case Reports.