Medicine Chapter Editors

Each issue of Medicine is planned, commissioned and produced in conjunction with Chapter Editors, who are regarded highly within their own specialty. Brief biographical details of Chapter Editors for the most recent series of Medicine appear below.

Acute medicine
Derek Bell MD FRCP FRCPE FRCPG
is Professor of Medicine at Imperial College, London, UK.

Mike Jones
is Clinical lead and Consultant in Acute Medicine at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, UK.

Autoimmune diseases
Mark Little

Karim Raza

Cardiovascular disorders
Philip MacCarthy

Bernard Prendergast DM FRCP
is Consultant Cardiologist at the Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester, UK.

Clinical Pharmacology
D John Reynolds MA DPhil FRCP
is Consultant Physician and Clinical Pharmacologist at Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust, Oxford, UK, and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer in the University of Oxford.

Contraception and Hormone Replacement Therapy
Anna Glasier MD FRCOG MFFP
is Honorary Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Edinburgh and in the Department of Public Health and Policy at the University of London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK, and Director of Family Planning and Well Woman Services for NHS Lothian.

Dermatology
Nigel P Burrows MD FRCP
is Consultant Dermatologist and Associate Lecturer at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK.

Sue Handfield-Jones FRCP
is Consultant Dermatologist at the West Suffolk Hospital NHS Trust, UK.

Diabetes

Simon R Heller DM FRCP
is Reader in Medicine at the University of Sheffield and Honorary Consultant Physician at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, Sheffield, UK.

Sean F Dinneen MD FRCPI FACP
is Senior Lecturer in Medicine at the National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland and Consultant in Diabetes and Endocrinology at University College Hospital, Galway.

Endocrine Disorders
Karim Meeran MD FRCP
is Senior Lecturer and Consultant Endocrinologist at Charing Cross and Hammersmith Hospitals, London, UK.

Waljit S Dhillo PhD FRCP
is Senior Clinical Lecturer and Honorary Consultant Endocrinologist at Imperial College and Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK.

Ethics and communication skills
Tony Hope MA PhD FRCPsych MFPH
is Professor of Medical Ethics and Director of the Ethox Centre at the University of Oxford, UK, and an Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist. His research interests include neuroscience, Alzheimer's disease and medical ethics.

Glyn Elwyn PhD FRCGP
is Professor of General Practice Research at Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK, and was formerly Foundation Chair of Primary Care at the School of Medicine, Swansea University. His interests include shared decision-making and quality improvement.

Gastroenterology
Rebecca Fitzgerald MA MD FRCP
is Programme Leader at the MRC Cancer Cell Unit, Hutchison-MRC Research Centre, Cambridge, and Honorary Consultant in Gastroenterology, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK. She qualified from Cambridge University, trained at St Barts and the Royal London, and Stanford University, California, USA. Her research interests include malignant transformation processes in the oesophagus.

Miles Parkes MA DM MRCP
is Consultant Gastroenterologist at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, and Associate Lecturer at the University of Cambridge, UK. He qualified from Oxford University and St Mary's Hospital, London and undertook specialist training and research in Oxford. His research interests include the genetics of Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, for which he leads the UK IBD Genetics Consortium.

Haematology
Ted Gordon-Smith MA FRCP FRCP(ed) FRCPath FAcadMedSci
is Professor of Haematology and Honorary Consultant Physician at St George's Hospital Medical School, London, UK. His main interests are aplastic anaemia, stem cell transplantation and disorders of RBCs.

Emma Morris MA PhD MRCP FRCPath
is Senior Lecturer in Immunology and Consultant Haematologist at the Royal Free and University College Medical School, London, UK.

HIV and AIDS
Andrew M L Lever FRCP FRCPE FRCPath FMedSci
is Professor of Infectious Diseases at the University of Cambridge and Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK. His research interests include the molecular biology of retroviruses, and the use of retroviruses for gene delivery and gene therapy.

Sani H. Aliyu MSc MRCP MRCPI FRCPath
is Consultant in Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK

Infections
George E Griffin PhD FRCP FRCPE
is Professor of Infectious Diseases and Medicine at St George's Hospital Medical School, London, UK. His research interests include the host response to infection in metabolic and immunological terms.

Thomas S Harrison MA MPH MD FRCP
is Senior Lecturer at St George's Hospital Medical School and Honorary Consultant Physician at St George's Hospital, London, UK. His research interests include the interaction between host and intracellular pathogens, and systemic fungal infections.

Liver disorders
Roger W Chapman MD FRCP
is Consultant Gastroenterologist at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK, and Honorary Senior Lecturer in Clinical Medicine in the University of Oxford. He qualified from St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, and trained in gastroenterology and hepatology at the Royal Free Hospital, London and in Oxford. His research interests include the pathophysiology and management of autoimmune hepatobiliary diseases.

Ian Gilmore MA PRCP
is President of the Royal College of Physicians and Consultant Physician at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Liverpool, UK. He qualified from the University of Cambridge, and undertook research at St Thomas' Hospital, London and the University of California, San Diego, USA. His interest is liver disease.

Neurology
Yvonne Hart MD FRCP
is Consultant Neurologist at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, UK. She qualified from the Royal Free Hospital, London. Her main interest is epilepsy.

Angus Kennedy MD MRCP
is Consultant Neurologist at Charing Cross Hospital, London, UK. His interests include the neurology of general medicine, and the assessment and management of degenerative dementia.

Nutrition
M E J Lean MA FRCP
is Professor of Human Nutrition, University of Glasgow, UK and Honorary Consultant Physician at Glasgow Royal Infirmary, with clinical and academic responsibilities in general medicine, diabetes, nutrition and obesity. His research interests in human nutrition link basic sciences, clinical applications and public health impact.

Oncology
Malcolm D Mason MD FRCP FRCR
is Cancer Research Wales Professor of Clinical Oncology at the University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff, UK. He qualified from St Bartholomew's Hospital, London. His research interests include the biology and treatment of urological cancers.

Palliative Care
Ilora G Finlay FRCP FRCGP
is Professor of Palliative Medicine at the University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff, UK, Medical Director of Holme Tower Marie Curie Centre, Penarth, and Consultant to Velindre NHS Trust Regional Oncology Centre, Cardiff. She is also President of the Royal Society of Medicine. Her special interests are education, clinical ethics and oral Candida.

Poisoning
Allister Vale MD FRCP FRCPE FRCPG FFOM FAACT FBTS
is Consultant Clinical Pharmacologist and Director of the National Poisons Information Service (Birmingham Unit) and the West Midlands Poisons Unit, City Hospital, Birmingham, UK. He is a Past-President of the British Toxicology Society and of the European Association of Poisons Centres and Clinical Toxicologists.

D Nicholas Bateman MD FRCP FRCPE FBPharmacolS FBTS
is Professor in Clinical Toxicology and Director of the National Poisons Information Service (Edinburgh Unit) at the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, UK. He is the Past-President of the European Association of Poison Centres and Clinical Toxicologists.

Psychiatry
A H Young PhD MRCPsych
is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. His research interests are the causes and treatment of severe psychiatric illness, particularly mood disorders.

I Nicol Ferrier MD FRCP FRCPsych
is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. His research interests include the relationship between structural and functional changes in the brain in severe affective disorders, and psychopharmacological strategies in treatment-resistant conditions.

Renal Disorders
Edward Kingdon FRCP
is a Consultant Nephrologist at Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust, UK. He qualified at the Royal Free Hospital, London, and trained in nephrology on the North Thames rotation.

Mark Harber MRCP PhD
is a Consultant Nephrologist at the Royal Free Hospital, London, UK. He qualified at the University of London and was awarded a PhD in Immunology from the University of Bristol.

Respiratory Disorders
Martin F Muers MA DPhil FRCP
is Consultant Respiratory Physician in the Respiratory Unit at Leeds General Infirmary, Leeds, UK. His research interests include management of lung cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, respiratory palliation and mesothelioma.

Michael Polkey PhD MRCP
is Consultant Physician and Reader in Respiratory Medicine at the Royal Brompton Hospital and the National Heart and Lung Institute, London, UK. His research interests include diaphragm function and respiratory failure.

Rheumatology
David Isenberg

Anisur Rahman

Sexually Transmitted Infections
Jonathan Ross

Ashish Sukthankar

Tropical Infections
Philip Gothard

Christopher Whitty