Alexander Rothman MA, BM BCh, MRes, PhD, MRCP, EEGC

Dr Alex Rothman trained in medicine at Cambridge and Oxford and joined the University of Sheffield in 2008 as an Academic Clinical Fellow working as part of a team investigating the therapeutic tractability of inflammation in patients suffering heart attacks (the MRC ILA Heart study). Through his MRC Clinical Research Training Fellowship, he developed an interest in the pathology and treatment of cardiovascular diseases and has been closely involved in studies investigating new therapies and devices for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension, atherosclerosis, and heart failure. He is currently a Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellow and an Honorary Consultant Cardiologist at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.