New NHLI Head

Professor Kim Fox, Professor of Clinical Cardiology, has accepted appointment as Head and he will succeed Professor Michael Schneider.

Professor Kim Fox, Professor of Clinical Cardiology, has accepted appointment as Head of Department for the National Heart and Lung Institute (NHLI) in the Faculty of Medicine from 1 September 2011.

He will succeed Professor Michael Schneider, who has led the NHLI since 1 January 2009. Professor Fox was appointed Registrar at Hammersmith Hospital in 1976, where he completed his early clinical and research training as a research fellow and senior registrar. He was awarded his MD in 1980 and appointed to the staff of the National Heart Hospital in 1982. He has been a consultant at the Royal Brompton Hospital since 1990 and was appointed Professor of Clinical Cardiology at Imperial in 2002.