Porf.John Wallwork , Papworth Hospital, Cambridge

John Wallwork, Bsc, MBChB, FRCS(E), FRCS, FRCP(E), FRCP(London), FMedSci, MA, is currently Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Director of Transplant Service at Papworth Hospital in Cambridge. He qualified at Edinburgh University and has held previous appointments in cardiothoracic surgery at Edinburgh, Glasgow and London in the UK and at Adelaide Hospital in South Australia. Before taking up his appointment at Papworth Hospital in 1981, he was Chief Resident at Stanford University Hospital in California for nearly 2 years, where he first became involved in heart and heart-lung transplantation. He has major interests in all adult cardiac surgery and has written and lectured widely on cardiac surgery and transplantation. He has a particular interest in heart-lung transplantation and cardiac surgery in the elderly, together with research into xenotransplantation, right heart failure and the evaluation of left ventricular assist devices for long-term mobilisation and heart failure.