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Jeffrey Aronson: Oxford Handbook of Practical Drug Therapy (2005)

Jeffrey Aronson is Reader in Clinical Pharmacology at the University of Oxford, Honorary Consultant Physician and Consultant Clinical Pharmacologist in the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals Trust, and a Fellow of Green College, Oxford. He trained in general medicine and clinical pharmacology in Glasgow and Oxford. His research interests include the control of ion transport systems in response to drugs and diseases, adverse drug reactions and interactions, and the clinical pharmacology of cardiovascular drugs. He is Chairman of the Editorial Board of the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, Editor-in-Chief of the International Encyclopedia of Adverse Drug Reactions (formerly Meyler's Side Effects of Drugs) and of its annual update volumes (Side Effects of Drugs Annuals), and Vice-Chairman of the UK Government's advisory body, the Medicines Commission. He is co-author of the Oxford Textbook of Clinical Pharmacology and Drug Therapy (OUP).

Jeffrey Aronson's website

Sabaratnam Arulkumaran: Oxford Handbook of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (2004)

Professor Arulkumaran qualified with MBBS Hons from University of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) in 1972. He obtained the additional degrees of DCH (Cey), LRCP & MRCS (UK), MRCOG, FRCS Ed by examination and his MD and PhD (Sing) by thesis. He received the Honorary fellowships of FSOGC (Canada), FACOG (America), FSCOG (Sri Lanka) and FAMS (Singapore). His current appointments and positions include Professor and Head, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, St.George's Hospital Medical School, University of London, and Secretary General of the Federation Internationale of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO). He is Editor-in-Chief of Best Practice and Research in Clinical Obstetrics & Gynaecology; Associate Editor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Survey, Current Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Paediatrics, Journal of the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine Medicine, International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology), and O&G Survey. He has published over 200 International reviewed articles, around 125 Chapters in books and edited or authored 18 books. Prior to his current appointment he was Professor (1997 to 2001) at The University of Nottingham, Non-Executive Director (1997-2001) of Southern Derbyshire Acute Hospital NHS Trust and Professor (1993 to 1997) and Head (1995 to 1997) of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, National University of Singapore.

Michael Barnes: Oxford Handbook of Rehabilitation Medicine (2005)

Michael Barnes is Professor of Neurological Rehabilitation at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He is a Past-President of the British Society of Rehabilitation Medicine and is current Founder President of the World Federation for Neuro-rehabilitation.

Edwina Brown: Oxford Handbook of Dialysis, 2/e (2004)

Edwina Brown is a consultant nephrologist at Charing Cross Hospital. Her main clinical areas of interest are the management of chronic renal failure and peritoneal dialysis. She trained at Somerville College, Oxford and University College Hospital, London. After SHO jobs, she spent 2 years at Yale (1975-1977), where she first started her research work in peritoneal dialysis. She has now been at Charing Cross since 1979, first as a senior registrar and now consultant. Over the years, she has done extensive clinical research, which has centred round complications of long term dialysis, cardiovascular risk factors in renal failure, and peritoneal dialysis. As well as the Oxford Handbook of Dialysis, she has co-edited 2 other books for OUP: 'Complications of Long Term Dialysis' (published 1998) and 'Supportive Care for the Renal Patient' (to be published 2004). She also is involved in organising a number of regular postgraduate renal courses in the UK: PD Academy, Advances in Nephrology and Supportive Care in Renal Disease.

Jim Cassidy: Oxford Handbook of Oncology (2002)

Jim Cassidy qualified MB ChB from Glasgow University in 1981 and following house jobs in Glasgow spent a year in south Wales training in general medicine. He returned to the medical rotation in Glasgow and passed the MRCP exam in 1985, then specialised in Medical Oncology with a Lecturer's post in Edinburgh followed by two consecutive CRC pharmacology fellowships at Glasgow University. During this time he obtained a degree in pharmacology and also an MD on 'drug delivery and targeting systems'. It was also during this time that he decided to pursue a sub-specialist interest in GI cancer. He then became Senior Lecturer in Glasgow and was Head of the Pharmacology section for about 2 years. His major research interests at the time were new drug development and drug delivery systems. In 1984 he moved to Aberdeen to become their first Prof of Oncology. He established a clinical trials unit which eventually became a CRUK 'key clinical centre'. He also established a very active laboratory program with significant external grant income and high quality output of publications. During this time his own clinical practice concentrated on colorectal cancer and phase 1 trials. In 1992 he returned once more to my 'alma mater' as CRUK Professor and head of the academic unit. Outside Medicine my main interests are Scottish history soccer and cycling.

Gavin Clunie: Oxford Handbook of Rheumatology, 2e (2006)

Gavin Clunie is a consultant rheumatologist at Ipswich Hospital. He trained in rheumatology in London (UCL) and has a research background in musculoskeletal imaging and nuclear medicine techniques. He now has research and clinical interest in Spondylarthropathy conditions (ankylosing spondylitis, psoriatic arthritis etc) and runs a bone density (DXA)scanning and mini-metabolic bone service in the hospital. Prior to medicine Gavin was employed in Tennis and had modest success as a professional and had taught widely in the USA and Australia notably. Nowadays a whole range of sports account for a steady string of injuries and a gradual decline into decrepitude. Further titles by this author can therefore be found in the 'self-help' sections of large book shops.

Simon Cross: Oxford Handbook of Medical Sciences (2006)

Simon Cross is a Reader in Pathology in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University of Sheffield. and a Honorary Consultant Histopathologist at the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. An Intercalated BSc in pathology at Guy's Hospital started his enthusiasm for the more scientific and laboratory-based aspects of medicine and he completed his histopathology training at Nottingham, Cardiff and Sheffield. His main research interest is the molecular pathology of cancer particularly the differential expressions of proteins. He has a wide experience of undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and tries to follow a visual approach with as many graphical methods of presentation as possible. As a long standing fan of the Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine he was delighted to be asked to co-author the Oxford Handbook of Medical Sciences. Outside medicine his interests include playing guitar in a jazz band and analogue photography.

James Dawson: Oxford Handbook for the Foundation Programme 2/e (2008)

After graduating from Sussex in Biochemistry with Neurobiology, James found that research was not his bag and embarked upon a medical degree in Leicester. It was during his undergraduate medical training that James became involved with publishing after contacting a publisher after being frustrated at the number of mistakes in one of his physiology books. During his final year he was asked to write his first book on undergraduate pharmacology. Having been exposed to many teachers and numerous textbooks, both good and bad, James appreciates that learning can be difficult and frustrating, and endeavours to simplify education at any opportunity. James had a broad post-graduate education and initially trained towards a career in Emergency Medicine, though after passing these membership examinations decided he wanted to be an anaesthetist. James is now happily based in theatres, being an active participant and critic in that field. Outside of work James enjoys digital photography, classic and modern film, Greek Mythology, natural sciences and most of all time with friends. James, like Archimedes, does his best thinking whilst in the bath, another of his favourite pastimes. Archimedes, however, unlike James, wasn't ginger, a few pounds overweight or balding.

Alastair Denniston: Oxford Handbook of Ophthalmology (Publishing Spring 2006)

Alastair Denniston is a Specialist Registrar in the West Midlands and has recently been appointed as Clinical Lecturer for the University of Birmingham Unit of Academic Ophthalmology. His special interests are Immunology and Immune Privilege, and animal eyes. He hopes to pursue one of these as a PhD.

Alan Hakim: Oxford Handbook of Rheumatology, 2e (2006)

Alan qualified in 1991 having trained as an undergraduate and clinical graduate at Cambridge University. He started his career at Addenbrookes Hospital in 1992 with a House Officer and then Senior House Officer medical rotation before moving to University College London Hospitals in 1994. Here he embarked on a Specialist Registrar programme in General Internal Medicine and Rheumatology. After gaining accreditation in 2000, Alan chose to pursue a clinical academic career and was awarded an Arthritis Research Campaign Clinical Research Fellowship. During his period of research in Twin and Genetic Epidemiology at St Thomas' Hospital, London, he was also appointed an Honorary Lecturer and Consultant in Rheumatology and Medicine at Whipps Cross University Hospital. In 2003 his was also appointed an honorary consultant at the Centre for Rheumatology, University College London Hospitals. Alan's clinical research interests include soft tissue epidemiology, hereditary disorders of connective tissue, and patient centred out-come measures. His publications include seminal work on the genetic epidemiology of soft tissue disorders. As well as his clinical and local teaching commitments, he continues to enjoy the privileges of research, writing and lecturing at a national and international level, and is a medical advisor to the UK hypermobility charity, HMSA.

Nathalie Hurley: Oxford Handbook for the Foundation Programme, 2e (2008)

Nathalie qualified from the University of Manchester medical school in 2006 with a long-time ambition of becoming a paediatrician and entered the Foundation Programme in only its second established year. Her first year as a doctor was spent training at Macclesfield District General Hospital in posts in endocrinology, care of the elderly and general surgery. Her F2 posts are also at the Trust and consist of paediatrics, general practice and A&E. However, after experiencing 4 months of sick children, she has now decided that paediatrics isn’t actually the career for her and has turned a full circle to follow a career in palliative care, a speciality she first encountered at Macclesfield as a 3rd year medical student. The Oxford Handbook for the Foundation Programme is Nathalie’s first experience with medical writing. She jumped at the opportunity to get involved as she managed to pass her finals largely thanks to the Oxford Handbook series and is still frequently one of those doctors who stands there thinking ‘What on earth do I do now?’. Nathalie is also a keen skier, enjoys vernacular photography and cooking, as well as spending time with her friends. She is also a lifelong Manchester United supporter, but please don’t hold that against her.

Jeremy Levy: Oxford Handbook of Dialysis, 2/e (2004)

Jeremy qualified originally from Cambridge University and the Royal London Hospital Medical School, and after completing SHO posts at the Hammersmith and Whittington Hospitals in London he then absconded to spend 6 months skiing and ski-mountaineering in Europe, and climbing volcanoes in Indonesia. Having emptied his bank account, he returned to a Registrar post in Oxford before undertaking a PhD on the immunobiology of Goodpasture's disease at the Hammersmith Hospital, becoming the Lecturer and finally a Consultant Nephrologist at Charing Cross and Hammersmith Hospitals. He has a large practice in haemodialysis, acute and chronic renal failure, SLE, vasculitis and immune mediated renal diseases, has a long-term interest in medical education, previously ran an MSc course in Nephrology, and now organises renal teaching for Imperial College London, has developed web based teaching schema, and teaches extensively to medical students, paramedical staff, junior doctors (for the MRCP exam) and specialists in Nephrology both nationally and internationally. He writes renal questions for the Royal College of Physicians. He continues to undertake research in vasculitis and immune-mediated renal disease, and coordinates various trials on novel therapies for these conditions at the Hammersmith Hospital (most recently using infliximab in vasculitis), and has an increasing research interest in chronic kidney disease and renal function. He continues to ski and ski-mountaineer, undertakes cross country ski marathons (rather slowly unfortunately), and now takes his children up volcanoes with him (the chickens and dog generally stay at home to look after the house). He is delighted that he does not share a name with his wife who is about to publish an undoubtedly best-selling book on paedophile priests (Fallen Order - buy your own copy NOW), but will maintain the important competition to see whose books sell most...

John Lilleyman: Oxford Handbook of Clinical Haematology, 2/e (2004)

John Lilleyman DSc MD FRCP FRCPath FRCPCH, is President of the Royal Society of Medicine. Qualified in 1968 from Barts. Consultant at the Children's Hospital, Sheffield from 1975 and Professor of paediatric haematology at the University of Sheffield prior to becoming professor of paediatric oncology at Barts and The London School of Medicine in 1995. President of the Association of Clinical Pathologists 1997-98, President of the Royal College of Pathologists 1999-2002, and President of the Royal Society of Medicine 2004-06.

Laura Mitchell: Oxford Handbook of Clinical Dentistry, 4/e (2004)

Qualified BDS in 'bonny' Dundee in 1981. Married a certain David Mitchell shortly after qualifying on 5th November 1981 (little did she know where that would lead!). After junior jobs in Dundee and Newcastle she was appointed a Lecturer in Child Dental Health in Newcastle. Whilst in this post she did speciality training in Orthodontics; a Masters degree and also co-wrote the Oxford Handbook of Clinical Dentistry with David. The first edition was published in 1991 and one of her most treasured moments was going to the local academic bookshop and seeing it on the shelves for the first time. In 1992 she was appointed Consultant Orthodontist at Middlesbrough General Hospital and Honorary Lecturer, Newcastle University Dental School. During this post she wrote An Introduction to Orthodontics (OUP), which was first published in 1996, by which time she had moved to a Consultant post in Bradford. Her present post is Consultant Orthodontist at Bradford and Honorary Senior Lecturer at Leeds Dental Institute. A number of national roles are also fitted around producing new editions of both books.

Philip Murray: Oxford Handbook of Ophthalmology (2006)

Philip Murray is Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Birmingham, and Honorary Consultant Ophthalmologist at the Birmingham and Midland Eye Centre. His main clinical and laboratory interest is intra-ocular inflammation (uveitis) and he has published over 100 papers on this subject. He is also the author of three ophthalmology textbooks. He is frequently asked to lecture in the UK and abroad, runs postgraduate revision courses for Part 1 and Part 3 MRCOphth and is an examiner for Part 3 MRCOphth and the Fellowship Assessment. He is also a member of the Education Committee of the Royal College of Ophthalmology, Chairman of the Specialist Training Committee for Medical Ophthalmology, and Secretary of the International Uveitis Study Group.

David Pencheon: Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice 2/e (2006)

David Pencheon is a UK trained Public Health Doctor and is currently Director of the NHS Eastern Region Public Health Observatory, serving the East of England, based in Cambridge. He also works part time in the Public Health Team for East Cambridgeshire and Fenland Primary Care Trust and the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Public Health Network. The Observatory provides better access to population based data, information, methodologies and expertise in the East of England in order to improve health and reduce inequalities. This work is mainly done to support local agencies especially the Primary Care Trusts and national organisations such as the Department of Health. The Public Health Observatory works closely with its partner agencies such as the Regional Public Health Team, NHS partners throughout the 6 counties of East of England, the East of England Development Agency's Observatory, the Government Office for the East, and the Health and Social Exclusion Panel of the Regional Assembly. Nationally, it works closely with the Health Development Agency and other PHOs in the UK and the rest of Europe. David Pencheon has worked as a Public Health Training Programme Director in the East of England and overseas with Save the Children Fund (UK). His main interests and areas of research and publication are: underpinning local and national public health action with good information and evidence, training and professional development, medical informatics and decision support, education in evidence based practice, access to health care. For the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Public Health Network, he takes a lead on training, information, transport, and access.

Drew Provan: Oxford Handbook Clinical Haematology, 2/e (2004) and Oxford Handbook of Clinical and Laboratory Investigation, 2/e (2005)

Drew Provan is currently a senior lecturer in haematology at Bart's & The London, Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry. He studied molecular genetics at Leicester University before studying medicine. He qualified in 1984 and, after house jobs in Glasgow, he started training in surgery. He soon saw the light and jumped ship to medicine and has never looked back! His initial introduction to haematology was in Glasgow and from there he moved to Southampton where he was a Leukaemia Research Fund fellow from 1989, and appointed senior registrar in 1991. He rotated to Bath and then to the Dana-Farber Center Institute on Boston, on an American travelling fellowship awarded by the Medical Research Council. After five years as a consultant in Southampton, he moved to take up his present post in July 2000. Although he would describe myself as a general haematologist, his main area of interest within haematology is immunohaematology, which is essentially the study of the effects of the immune system on the blood. Immunohaematological diseases include autoimmune thrombocytopenia (ITP), neutropenia and haemolytic anaemia. He is currently attempting to establish a clinical and laboratory database of patients with ITP and has recently set up a UK and Intercontinental Adult ITP Registry. This will allow the collection of clinical information relating to adults with ITP throughout the UK, Europe and other countries, in addition to obtaining DNA samples for analysis of a variety of different cytokine and other genes, in an attempt to determine the underlying mechanisms leading to autoantibody production. They are also hopeful of identifying surrogate markers of likely clinical outcomes and perhaps they might even be able to identify treatment response genes. Drew enjoys writing, editing and typesetting and has been involved with the production of a number of books, such as Molecular Haematology (Blackwell Science, co-editor Dr John Gribben), Oxford Handbook of Clinical Haematology and Oxford Handbook of Clinical & Laboratory Investigation, and the ABC of Clinical Haematology (BMJ books). He lives in North London with his wife (Val), 8 year old son (Fraser) and an adopted cat (Lucky).

Punit Ramrakha: Oxford Handbook of Acute Medicine, 2/e (2004) and Oxford Handbook of Cardiology (2006)

Punit graduated from Cambridge (MA, 1st Class Hons.) and Oxford University (BMBCh) with many university prizes. He has trained in General Medicine at Hammersmith Hospital, Royal Brompton Hospital, St Thomas's Hospital and National Hospital Queen Square in London, before undertaking his cardiology training as a Registrar at the Hammersmith Hospital, Charing Cross Hospital and St Mary's Hospital, London. He has a good foundation in Molecular Medicine and the Basic Sciences, and spent 4 years doing a PhD into endothelial adhesion molecules; he received University and International Awards for this work. He was appointed as Consultant Cardiologist in 2002. His expertise is in interventional cardiology, heart failure and hypertension based at Stoke Mandeville Hospital and Hammersmith Hospital. Punit has extensive experience in writing and teaching: he is Editor of the Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine 3rd Edition (OUP, 1993), the Oxford Handbook of Acute Medicine (OUP, 1997), and QBase Medicine 1 (GMM, 1998). He has been teaching on courses for the MRCP and MRCPCH in London since 1994 and co-founded 123Doc Medical Courses in 2000.

123 Doc website

Grace Robinson: Oxford Handbook of Respiratory Medicine (2005)

Grace Robinson qualified from St Mary's Hospital Medical School in 1995. Her SHO training was in Bristol and London. She hold a respiratory / general medicine NTN in Oxford, and will finish registrar training in 2006. Her research has been in functional MRI in OSA and sleep deprivation.

Stephan Sanders: Oxford Handbook for the Foundation Programme 2/e (2008)

Stephan has wanted to be a doctor since the age of 12, shortly after becoming disillusioned with the astronaut pension scheme. He trained at Nottingham medical school where he wrote a "Crash Course" textbook on the endocrine and reproductive systems during his paediatrics attachment. Surprisingly he still passed the paediatrics exam and decided this was clearly a good speciality. After medical school he worked in Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham then Derbyshire Royal Infirmary, Derby. He eventually hopes to train as a clinical geneticist and will soon be starting a paediatrics rotation at Northwick Park, Harrow. Alongside genetics Stephan is also interested in high altitude and expedition medicine. He enjoys travelling, cycling, mountaineering and skiing in his spare time. In the future he hopes to unite the fields of quantum physics and ward based medicine to explain several medical phenomena including why you can never locate the notes and drug chart at the same time.

Crispian Scully, CBE: Oxford Handbooks of Dental Patient Care (2005)and Applied Dental Sciences (2003)

Crispian Scully is Secretary of the International Academy of Oral Medicine; Secretary of the International Academy of Oral Oncology; member of the International Committee of the American Academy for Oral Medicine and Past-President of the European and British Associations of Oral Medicine. Professor Scully is Co-director of the World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre for oral health, disability and culture, a member of the Medical Research Council Cross Board Committee, a member of the National Centre for Clinical Excellence (NICE) advisory subcommittee on CJD, and Visiting Professor at Helsinki University and the University of the West of England. Professor Scully has lectured worldwide on oral medicine, oral pathology and special care dentistry. He has written 30 books, and numerous chapters, research papers, and reviews on clinical problems. He has over 680 papers cited on MEDLINE. He is involved in several journals, including as Editor of Oral Oncology, co-Editor of Oral Diseases and on the editorial boards of journals such as the International Journal of Oncology, Acta-Oto-Laryngologica, Archives of Oral Biology, Continuing Professional Development in Dentistry and Oral Biosciences and Medicine.

Eastman Dental Institute website
WHO Collaborating Centre for Research, Education and Service in oral health, disability and culture website
University of Helsinki, Institute of Dentistry website
International Academy of Oral Oncology website
European Association of Oral Medicine website
Professor Scully's Personal website

Roy Spence: Oxford Handbook of Oncology (2002)

Professor Roy Spence has been a Consultant Surgeon at the Belfast City Hospital since 1986. He is an Honorary Professor at The Queen's University of Belfast and an Honorary Professor at the University of Ulster. He acquired the Fellowships of the Royal College of Surgeons and Edinburgh and Ireland in 1981. He received an MD Degree from Queen's University in 1984 and an MA Degree in 'Medical Ethics and Law' from Queen's University in 1997. His major clinical interests are as a General Surgeon with a Specialist interest in Breast Cancer and Endocrine Surgery. He has an interest in the organisation of Cancer Services and is Lead Cancer Clinician in the Belfast City Hospital Trust. He is a Council Member of the Ulster Cancer Foundation and Chairs the Research Advisory Panel, and is Chairman of the Council of the Ulster Cancer Registry. He spent a four year term as Trust Board Director of the Belfast City Hospital Trust (1993-1997). He is also a Member of the Council of the University of Ulster. He is an Examiner in the Fellowship of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of Edinburgh and Ireland and is currently an Examiner in the Intercollegiate Examination in Surgery. He sits on a number of Cancer Committees in Northern Ireland. He has over 150 abstracts and papers published, along with 11 chapters in books. He is also a co-author of 12 academic textbooks, either published or in press. In 2004 he was appointed the Penman Visiting Professor for South Africa for 2005. From 1993 to 2001 he was a member of the Police Authority for Northern Ireland and for 3 years was Chairman of the Community Relations Committee. He is also a Justice of the Peace. He was appointed an OBE in the New Year's Honours 2001. In 2002 he was appointed Pro Chancellor of the University of Ulster.

Gavin Spickett: Oxford Handbook of Clinical Immunology and Allergy, 2/e (2006)

Gavin Spickett is currently consultant immunologist and allergist in the Regional Department of Immunology, Royal Victoria infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne. He also still undertakes acute general medicine on the acute medical admissions unit, in addition to leading the regional clinical immunology and allergy service and directing the regional immunology laboratory. Prior to taking up the substantive post in Newcastle, he had a spell as a locum at Leicester Royal Infirmary. His training in immunology was undertaken at the MRC Cellular Immunology Unit in Oxford, with Don Mason, the MRC Clinical Research Centre at Northwick Park, with David Webster, and at the John Radcliffe in Oxford, with Helen Chapel. General medical training was undertaken in Ipswich. The Handbook was written primarily as the book he wished he had when training in immunology, and now a repository of all the information acquired but at risk of being forgotten if not put down on paper.

John Stradling: Oxford Handbook of Respiratory Medicine (2005)

John Stradling trained at the Middlesex Hospital with junior jobs at the Hammersmith Hospital and Oxford. He was an MRC travelling fellow to Toronto 1984/5, Welcome Senior Research Fellow in 1985, NHS consultant since 1989, and was awarded a personal chair (respiratory medicine) in 1999. His previous OUP publication was 'Handbook of Sleep Related Disorders of Breathing' (1993). His main research is in the area of sleep related disorders of breathing: epidemiology, cardiovascular consequences, simplified methods of diagnosis, and randomised controlled trials of therapy.

Ian Symonds: Oxford Handbook of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (2004)

Dr Ian Symonds DM BM BS BMedSci MRCOG ILTM, is Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant in Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Qualified from Nottingham University 1983 and trained in Nottingham, Hull and Birmingham. Gained research doctorate for work on ovarian cancer in 1995 and completed specialist training in 1997. 16 years clinical experience in Obstetrics and Gynaecology and as a Consultant have played the leading role in the local introduction of out-patient hysteroscopy, 'one-stop' clinics for the rapid assessment of postmenopausal bleeding and dedicated antenatal clinics for substance abusers and HIV positive women. Course co-ordinator for Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Nottingham since 1997 with responsibility for curriculum development, assessment and pastoral care. Helped to develop programmes of interprofessional learning, primary care based learning, distance learning and overseas study. Closely involved in the setting up of a new Graduate Entry Medical programme at Derby as the lead for admissions and in developing the reproductive medicine module of the PBL course. Editor / co-author of 3 undergraduate textbooks on obstetrics and gynaecology. Current research interests include infra-red spectroscopy, monoclonal antibodies, ovarian cancer, cervical screening and medical education.

John Wass: Oxford Handbook of Endocrinology and Diabetes (2002)

John Wass graduated from Guy's Hospital Medical School in 1971 obtaining MRCP in 1973. He completed his higher professional training in 1982 with accreditation in endocrinology, diabetes mellitus and general internal medicine. He was awarded an MD in 1980 and FRCP in 1986. From 1982 to 1995 he was Honorary Consultant at Bart's and latterly in 1989 Professor of Clinical Endocrinology and Honorary Consultant Physician. He moved to Oxford in 1995 and is now Professor of Endocrinology at the University of Oxford and Consultant Physician at the Churchill Hospital and the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford. He is a Fellow of Green College where he is Admissions Tutor. He is head of endocrinology and supervises an active research group. His special interests are pituitary tumours including acromegaly, growth hormone therapy and osteoporosis. He is involved in clinical endocrinology nationally and internationally. Nationally he is currently secretary of the Society for Endocrinology and until recently was chair of the Clinical Committee of the Society for Endocrinology. Internationally he is President of the European Federation of Endocrine Societies and currently serves on the Research Committee of the American Endocrine Society and is on the Board of Directors of the Pituitary Society where he is chair of the Nominations Committee. In the past he has been Linacre Fellow at the Royal College of Physicians. He co-founded the Pituitary Foundation and is a current trustee. He is a Governor of the Purcell School. He lectures nationally and internationally and has edited the Oxford Textbook of Endocrinology and Diabetes.

Max Watson: Oxford Handbook of Palliative Care (2005)

Max Watson completed degrees in Theology and Medicine at Edinburgh University before undertaking General Practice training in Northern Ireland. As a junior hospital Doctor he became a devotee of the Oxford Handbook series as a practical help and support through the loneliness of many an on-call night. Interest in medical literature which is concise, accurate and practical has become something of a life obsession! Married to a GP Max and his wife spent the next eight years in semi-rural Nepal where they worked in a busy general hospital at Tansen, 200 miles west of Kathmandu. They were involved in establishing Tansen as a GP training centre and developed protocols, guidelines and handbooks for rural GPs modelled on the Oxford handbook series. Returning to the UK in the late nineties Max took up a career in Palliative Care, with SPR training in both London and Belfast. During this training period he developed the eight week Certificate in Essential Palliative Care at The Princess Alice Hospice, and the guidelines for two London cancer networks. He is currently involved in research in cancer cachexia at the Belfast City Hospital and is a Locum Consultant at the Northern Ireland Hospice.

George Webster: Oxford Handbook of Gastroenterology and Hepatology (2006)

George Webster is a consultant in gastroenterology and hepatopancreaticobiliary medicine at University College Hospital (UCH), and an honorary senior lecturer within the UCL Institute of Hepatology. After qualifying from the Royal Free Hospital in 1991 he undertook junior training posts at The Hammersmith, Royal Brompton, and Whittington hospitals. His clinical registrar training also took place in north London, with general gastroenterology and endoscopy training at the Whittington and Edgware hospitals, hepatology and liver transplantation at The Royal Free, and hepatobiliary training and ERCP at The Middlesex/UCH and The Royal London hospitals. He received an MD for his thesis on the immunopathogenesis of hepatitis B, carried out within UCL. He undertook a fellowship in hepatobiliary medicine in Sydney in 2003, before returning to London to take up his post at UCH. The HPB unit at UCH (which moved to a new state-of-the-art site in summer 2005) is one of the busiest in the UK, performing > 1000 ERCPs each year. His areas of clinical and research interest include hepatology, pancreaticobiliary medicine, and interventional endoscopy (particularly ERCP). To date, he has published 20 peer reviewed papers, 6 review articles, and 7 book chapters. He has a longstanding interest in education, including the coordination of undergraduate hepatology/gastroenterology teaching at UCH, regular lecturing for the MRCP exam, and consultant-directed teaching on a number of courses, including within UCL and The Royal College of Physicians. He is also actively involved in hands-on training of registrars in ERCP and interventional endoscopy. The chance to co-author the new Oxford Handbook of Gastroenterology and Hepatology provided an exciting opportunity to extend his interest in clinical teaching..

Sophie West: Oxford Handbook of Respiratory Medicine (2005)

Sophie West qualified at Leicester University in 1996 and did medical jobs in Peterborough, Leicester and London, before joining the Oxford specialist registrar rotation in respiratory and general medicine. She is currently researching the relationship between sleep apnoea and diabetes.

Robert Wilkins: Oxford Handbook of Medical Sciences (Publishing early 2006)

Robert Wilkins graduated in Physiology from University College in 1990. He subsequently undertook a research degree in the Laboratory Physiology, studying the cellular physiology of cartilage. After successfully completing his D.Phil., he was awarded a Junior Research Fellowship at Christ Church. Two fixed-term Fellowships at Trinity and Wadham followed, associated with a Research Fellowship from the Arthritis Research Campaign. In January 2004 he was appointed to a University Lectureship in Epithelial Physiology. At St Edmund Hall, Dr Wilkins holds the American Fellowship in Physiology; as the medical tutor, he overseas the teaching of the four or five pre-clinical students in each year and provides tutorials overing cellular and systems physiology.

Jonathan Wyatt: Oxford Handbook of Accident and Emergency Medicine, 2/e (2005)

Jonathan Wyatt qualified from Sheffield University, then attracted by the snow and ice of the Highlands, moved north to receive postgraduate training in Scotland. He has a full experience of many aspects of Accident and Emergency, partly due to a road traffic collision, which resulted in a one year sabbatical. This included six months languishing in an orthopaedic ward. Perhaps affected adversely by global warming, he gave up on Scottish winter mountaineering to return to the south-west of England as consultant in A&E in Cornwall. He has an MD and continuing interest in forensic medicine.