Prof Simon A McG Thom MD FRCP

Simon Thom is Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and Pharmacology at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London.  He is a Consultant Physician at St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington and Co-director of the Peart-Rose Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Clinic based in the International Centre for Circulatory Health.  He is also co-director of the NW London Diabetes Research Network – part of the UK national Clinical Research Network.

He trained at St Mary’s Medical School and subsequently in Bath, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and London.  He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, holds an MD from the University of London and was recently a member of the Executive Committee of the British Hypertension Society and the national hypertension guidelines group.

His clinical interests include general medicine, hypertension, cardiovascular disease prevention and hypertensive complications in pregnancy.  Research interests include vascular pharmacology and physiology, structure and mechanics of the circulation and haemodynamics in relation to vascular disease.  He leads clinical trials of cardiovascular treatments – currently the multi-centered UMPIRE trial evaluating a “cardiovascular polypill” that includes collaborators and participants in India, Australia, the Netherlands, Ireland and UK. 

Research support comes from the British Heart Foundation, the Wellcome Trust, the European Commission, the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and the pharmaceutical industry.

Selected Publications