ABSTRACT
Professor Colin R. Martin is a qualifi ed Nurse and Chair in Mental Health at the University of the West of Scotland and Adjunct Professor at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), Melbourne, Australia. Professor Martin is a Chartered Health Psychologist and a Chartered Scientist. Having originally trained in psychiatric nursing, he specialised in the addictions and following further training, worked as a community psychiatric nurse and then as an addictions counsellor in the NHS. On completion of BSc and PhD degree’s in psychology, Professor Martin worked in senior management posts in the NHS followed by academic posts in the UK and the Far East, during which he conducted original research in both the addictions and the mental health aspects of chronic disease. He has published many scientifi c papers in psychology, biology, medical and nursing journals. Professor Martin is honorary Consultant Psychologist to The Salvation Army, UK and Eire Territories and was instrumental in formulating the addictions policy of the Salvation Army (UK and Eire) over recent years to develop high quality and evidencedbased clinical care and services. Victor R. Preedy BSc, PhD, DSc, FIBiol, FRCPath, FRSPH is Professor of Nutritional Biochemistry, King’s College London, Professor of Clinical Biochemistry, Kings College Hospital and Director of the Genomics Centre, King’s College London. Presently he is a member of the Kings College London School of Medicine. Professor Preedy graduated in 1974 with an Honours Degree in Biology and Physiology with Pharmacology. He gained his University of London PhD in 1981 when he was based at the Hospital for Tropical Disease and The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. In 1992, he received his Membership of the Royal College of Pathologists and in 1993 he gained his second doctoral degree, i.e., DSc, for his outstanding contribution to protein metabolism in health and disease. Professor Preedy was elected as a Fellow to the Institute of Biology in 1995 and to the Royal College of Pathologists in 2000. Since then he has been elected as a Fellow to the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health (2004) and The Royal Institute of Public Health (2004). In 2009, Professor Preedy became a Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health. In his career Professor Preedy has carried out research at the National Heart Hospital (part of Imperial College London) and the MRC Centre
at Northwick Park Hospital. He has collaborated with research groups in Finland, Japan, Australia, USA and Germany. He is a leading expert on the mechanisms of disease and has lectured nationally and internationally. He has published over 570 articles, which includes over 165 peer-reviewed manuscripts based on original research, 90 reviews and 20 books. Ross J Hunter AKC BSc MBBS MRCP PhD trained in medical sciences at King’s College London (Times University ranking 11th in UK). He spent a further year at Imperial College London (Times University ranking 3rd in UK) and was awarded his BSc in Cardiovascular medicine in 1998. Since returning to his medical training at King’s College School of Medicine, he has remained an honorary research fellow at The Department of Nutritional Sciences, researching the effect of different nutritional states and alcoholism on the cardiovascular system. He was awarded his bachelor of medicine & surgery (MBBS) with distinction in 2001. He trained in general medicine in London and Brighton and was made a member of the Royal College of Physicians (UK) in 2005. He trained as a Registrar in cardiology and general internal medicine from 2005-2008 in the London Deanery. Since 2008 he has been a research fellow at the Department of Cardiology & Electrophysiology at St Bartholomew’s Hospital London, conducting clinical research and clinical trials in cardiology and electrophysiology, and was awarded his PhD in 2011. He was a young investigator of the year fi nalist at the Heart Rhythm Society (USA) in 2011. He has published over 60 scientifi c articles of various kinds and is Editor of 4 books.
