Peter Collins

Peter Collins is Professor of Clinical Cardiology, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, and Consultant Cardiologist at the Royal Brompton Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, London. He studied at Caius College, University of Cambridge and St Thomas' Hospital Medical School (now part of King's College London). He trained as a junior doctor in London. Professor Collins studied for a research degree at the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff. He received his MD degree from the University of Cambridge, where he won the university’s Sir Walter Langdon-Brown prize for his thesis. In 1989, he joined Royal Brompton Hospital as a consultant cardiologist. In 2001, he was appointed a Professor of Clinical Cardiology at Imperial College London. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London, the American College of Cardiology and the European Society of Cardiology as well as a member of the British Cardiac Society and the Association of Physicians of Great Britain and Ireland. He is currently the Chairman of the Task Force on Gender of the European Society of Cardiology. His principal clinical interests are in cardiovascular disease, and in particular coronary heart disease, intractable angina, heart failure, valvar disease, hypertension, cardiovascular disease and vascular effects of hormones in women, hyperlipidaemia. He has published extensively in these areas and has investigated coronary flow mechanisms in the human coronary arterial system. He has been instrumental in establishing (in 1993) and running the weekly ‘Women’s Heart Clinic’ at the Royal Brompton Hospital, one of the first of its kind in the UK and Europe.