Neil Poulter FMedSci

Professor Neil Poulter graduated from St Mary's Hospital, London, in 1974, following which he trained in General Medicine, and in 1980 moved to Kenya to co-ordinate a collaborative hypertension research program between the Kenya Medical Research Institute and St Mary's Hospital.

On his return to the UK, he attended the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, wherein in 1986 he acquired an MSc in Epidemiology with distinction. During this year he also became accredited with the Royal College of Physicians as a general physician, following which he was based at the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at University College London Medical School (UCLMS) where he was Co-Principal Investigator and Study Co-ordinator of the WHO international collaborative case-control study of cardiovascular disease and steroid hormone contraception.

He is an Honorary Consultant Physician and Epidemiologist at the Peart-Rose (Hypertension) Clinic based at St Mary's Hospital, London, where he is actively involved in the treatment of patients with hypertension and related problems.

In 1997 he was appointed Professor of Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine at Imperial College London, where he is co-Director of the International Center for Circulatory Health and co-Director of the Imperial Clinical Trials Unit. He was President of the British Hypertension Society from 2003-to 2005. In 2008 he was elected as one of the Inaugural Senior Investigators of the NIHR in the UK and in 2009 he was also elected as a fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences.