Contributors

Brian Angus

Director, Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Oxford, UK

Chapter 5: Infectious and tropical diseases

Jim Ballinger

Honorary Senior Lecturer, Imaging Sciences, King’s College London, UK

Chapter 14: Nuclear medicine

Martyn Bracewell

Senior Lecturer in Neurology and Neuroscience, Bangor University, Bangor, UK

Chapter 9: Neurology

Joanna Brown

Respiratory Consultant, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK

Chapter 8: Respiratory medicine

Tanya Chawla

Staff Radiologist and Assistant Professor, Joint Department of Medical Imaging, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Chapter 13: Radiology

Colin Dayan

Professor of Clinical Diabetes and Metabolism, Division of Infection and Immunity, Cardiff University School of Medicine, Cardiff, UK

Chapter 2: Endocrinology and metabolism

Vanessa Foggo

Consultant Haematologist, Royal London Hospital, London, UK

Chapter 3: Haematology

Gopinath Gnanasegaran

Consultant Physician in Nuclear Medicine, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Guy and St Thomas’ Hospital, London, UK

Chapter 14: Nuclear medicine

Emma Greig

Consultant Gastroenterologist, Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton, UK

Chapter 7: Gastroenterology

Andrew R Houghton

Consultant Cardiologist and Visiting Fellow of the University of Lincoln, United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust, Lincolnshire, UK

Chapter 6: Cardiology

Alison Jones

Pro Vice-Chancellor (Health Strategy) and Executive Dean, Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health, University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia

Chapter 11: Poisoning and overdose

Suzanne Lane

Consultant Rheumatologist, Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust, Ipswich, UK

Chapter 12: Rheumatology

Sarah McCloskey

Speciality Trainee in Nephrology, Department of Renal Medicine, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

Chapter 10: Renal medicine

Gavin Spickett

Consultant Immunologist, The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle, UK

Chapter 4: Immunology and allergy

Charles Tomson

Consultant Nephrologist, Department of Renal Medicine, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

Chapter 10: Renal medicine

My thanks, also, to those who contributed to the first edition: John Axford, Keith Dawkins, and Praful Patel. Also to those who contributed to the second edition: James Dunbar, A Frew, Stephen T Green, Val Lewington, Rommel Ravanan, Dr Penelope Sensky, Adrian Williams, and Lorraine Wilson.