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Professor Peter S Sever
Professor of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics
National Heart & Lung Institute
Tel: +44 (0)20 7594 1100
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Professor Peter S Sever
Peter Sever is Professor of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics at Imperial College London, Honorary Consultant Physician at the Imperial Healthcare NHS Trust and Co-Director of the International Centre for Circulatory Health.
After graduating from Cambridge, Professor Sever completed his training at St Mary’s Hospital Medical School. Following a succession of appointments in general medicine, cardiology and chest diseases, followed by lectureships in medicine and pharmacology, he became an Honorary Consultant Physician and Senior Lecturer in Medicine in the Medical Unit at St Mary’s Hospital in 1976. In 1980 he was appointed Professor of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics at St Mary’s Hospital Medical School, which was subsequently incorporated into the Imperial College School of Medicine.
During the past decade he established a major research programme in the pathogenesis and treatment of cardiovascular disease. He is Joint Editor in Chief of the Journal of the Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone System. He has been a member of the editorial boards of several journals, including the Journal of Hypertension, Journal of Human Hypertension and Clinical Science. Professor Sever is a past-president of the British Hypertension Society (1989-1991) and past president of the European Council for Blood Pressure and Cardiovascular Research. He is also a Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology and past Chairman of the Fellowships Committee of the British Heart Foundation.
His current research interests include all aspects of cardiovascular disease, including the pathophysiology of vascular disease, the evaluation of anti-hypertensive drug therapy and multiple risk factor intervention in hypertensive populations. He is also interested in the epidemiology of hypertension with particular reference to environmental influences on blood pressure, and ethnic differences.
