Acute aortic dissection and other syndromes

Graham Cooper trained in Leeds, Manchester, Sheffield, London and Paris. He has been a consultant cardiac surgeon at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals since 1996, with an interest in thoracic aortic surgery. He has been Clinical Director and Clinical Lead. In addition, he is Regional Medical Examiner for North East and Yorkshire and National Clinical Advisor for Acute Aortic Dissection to NHS England. He is a past president of the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery, trustee of the Think Aorta campaign and medical advisor to Aortic Dissection Awareness UK and Ireland.

Simon Ray graduated from Bristol University in Pharmacology in 1980 and in Medicine in 1983. After HO jobs in Bristol and medical SHO and registrar jobs in Glasgow and Edinburgh he completed my MD as a British Heart Foundation funded research fellow with Prof Henry Dargie in Glasgow. Simon continued cardiology training at the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle before moving to CTC Liverpool as a senior registrar in 1992. From 1994-95 he was an interventional cardiology fellow in Vancouver BC before appointment as consultant cardiologist at University Hospitals of South Manchester  in 1995. He was appointed Honorary Professor of Cardiology in 2011. Simon's clinical and research interests have focussed around valve disease, cardiac involvement in neuromuscular disease and more recently cardio-oncology. He was clinical director of cardiology at UHSM from 2006-2009, President of the British Society of Echocardiography 2007-2009, Vice President of the British Cardiovascular Society for clinical standards from 2010-2013 and President of the British Heart Valve Society from 2013-2016. Currently Simon is joint national lead for GIRFT in cardiology and President of the British Cardiovascular Society.