Contact details
Theme lead: Professor John Danesh
Professor John Danesh trained in medicine at the University of Otago in New Zealand and at the Royal Melbourne Hospital in Australia. During his time as a Rhodes scholar, he received an MSc in Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a DPhil in Epidemiology at the University of Oxford. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 2007.
Current roles
Since 2001, Danesh has been the Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine at the University of Cambridge. He holds a British Heart Foundation Professorship, a European Research Council Advanced Investigator Award, and an NIHR Senior Investigator Award.
He has the following additional roles:
– Head of the University’s 400-person Department of Public Health and Primary Care
- Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine
- Head, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge
- Director, MRC/BHF Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit
- Director, NIHR Blood and Transplant Research Unit in Donor Health and Genomics
- Honorary Consultant in Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology,
- Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Associate Faculty Member, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
Theme lead contact details
Telephone: Professor John Danesh
Email: jd292@medschl.cam.ac.uk
| Name | Job title | Email address |
|---|---|---|
| Professor Nick Wareham | Honorary Consultant | njw1004@medschl.cam.ac.uk |
| Professor Douglas Easton | Honorary Consultant | dfe20@medschl.cam.ac.uk |
| Professor Kay-Tee Khaw | Honorary Consultant | kk101@medschl.cam.ac.uk |
| Professor Simon Thompson | Honorary Consultant | Sgt27@medschl.cam.ac.uk |
| Dr Paul Pharoah | Honorary Consultant | paul.pharoah@medschl.cam.ac.uk |
| Dr Emanuele Di Angelantonio | Honorary Consultant | ed303@medschl.cam.ac.uk |
| Dr Danish Saleheen | Honorary Consultant | ds436@medschl.cam.ac.uk |
| Dr Adam Butterworth | Honorary Consultant | asb38@medschl.cam.ac.uk |