Julian Halcox is the Professor of Clinical Cardiology in Swansea University Medical School. He trained in Medicine at Queens College Cambridge and Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School in London (now Imperial College). His specialist clinical training was in London teaching hospitals including St Bartholomew’s, The London Chest and The Heart Hospital. During his specialist training, he spent three years as a Fogarty International Research Fellow and Visiting Scientist in The Cardiology Branch of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda USA, where he studied human coronary and peripheral vascular physiology using a range of invasive and non-invasive methods.