John is a retired chartered engineer who survived a heart attack in 1995. As a result of John’s experience, he became interested in cardiology and joined his local Community Health Council. In 2003 he was elected as the chair of the British Heart Foundation’s very first Patient Advisory Group. Since then, John has been involved with the Department of Health, NICE, NIHR and elsewhere.
John’s major interest is in research, and maintains participation in several trials, either as team member or independent adviser. He believes that the most promising sources of future patient benefit lie in med-tech for individual patients coupled with AI techniques in big data-sets. This explains his enthusiastic backing of the BHF Data Science Centre.