Contact details

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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.

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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, Medical Research Council (MRC)/British Heart Foundation 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: jd292@medschl.cam.ac.uk

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