Professor Simon Capewell

Cardiovascular Diseases

Simon Capewell is currently Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Liverpool. During his career spanning the last 25 years, Simon has worked as a physician, an academic, and as a civil servant in the Scottish Office Home and Health Department. Simon is an expert advisor for the British Heart Foundation Heartstats Advisory Group, a Trustee and Board member for Heart of Mersey (a large primary prevention programme based in Merseyside), and a member of the Faculty of Public Health Cardiovascular Health Working Group. Simon is also a Fellow at the Faculty of Public Health and the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. His research interests include: the epidemiology of coronary heart disease (CHD), heart failure, using modelling to explain CHD mortality trends and contrast future policy options, and randomised trials of therapies for emergency admissions with acute chest pain.

Dr David Taylor-Robinson

Cardiovascular Diseases

David Taylor-Robinson is Clinical Lecturer and Honorary Specialist Registrar in Public Health at the University of Liverpool. He has a research background in evidence synthesis, and was involved in putting together the evidence base for the new WHO malaria guidelines with a team at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. He is currently working with Professor Simon Capewell on a project which uses a computer model to explain coronary heart disease mortality trends and contrast future options.