Dr Mike Fisher

Dr. Fisher qualified in 1988, having studied medicine at St. Andrews in Scotland and at Manchester Universities and then undertook initial training around Manchester gaining a Cardiology registrar rotation in 1992. He moved to Cardiff in 1995 to undertake research on the role of nitric oxide in the vascular response to injury, culminating in the award of a PhD in 2001. He was then appointed consultant cardiologist with a interest in coronary intervention in 2002, where he has been since.

Dr. Fisher maintains an active interest in research in the field of vascular inflammatory response and the relevance of this to acute and chronic coronary disease, having supervised 4 higher degrees over the course of the last 7 years has been the recipient of 3 nationally competitive grants over the same period, one of which was a BHF clinical training fellowship. He has been the joint theme lead with Dr. Rod Stables for the interventional theme within the Institute for Cardiovascular Medicine and Science, a research and service development collaboration between the Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital, The Royal Brompton and Liverpool and Imperial Universities.

He also maintains a strong interest in medical IT, being the chief clinical information officer for the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen NHS trust, which is one of the national Global Digital Exemplars. More recently his interest in coronary disease has led to a growing involvement with the management of difficult and refractory angina and he is the cardiology lead of the Liverpool Refractory Angina Service.