Prof Simon  Ray

I graduated in medicine from Bristol Medical School in 1983. After HO jobs in Bristol and medical SHO and registrar jobs in Glasgow and Edinburgh I completed my MD as a BHF funded research fellow with Prof Henry Dargie in Glasgow. I continued cardiology training at the Freeman in Newcastle before moving to CTC Liverpool as a senior registrar in 1992. From 1994-95 I was an interventional cardiology fellow in Vancouver BC with Ian Penn, Chris Buller and Donald Ricci before appointment as consultant cardiologist at UHSM in 1995. My clinical and research interests have focussed around valve disease, PFO, cardiac involvement in neuromuscular disease and more recently cardio-oncology. I was clinical director of cardiology at UHSM from 2006-2009, President of the British Society of Echocardiography 2007-2009 and Vice President of the BCS for clinical standards from 2010-2013. Currently I am joint clinical lead for the cardiovascular theme of the Manchester Academic Health Sciences Centre, President of the British Heart Valve Society and Director of Research and Development at UHSM. I was appointed Honorary Professor of Cardiology in 2011.