Subject
MedicineFellow type
Honorary FellowPositions
Honorary Fellow, Alumnus 1962 Medicine
Biography
Peter Sever is Professor of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics at Imperial College London and Honorary Consultant Physician at the Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. He is Senior Investigator of the National Institute for Health Research.
Professor Sever is a past President of the British Hypertension Society and the European Council for Blood Pressure and Cardiovascular Research and past Chairman of the Fellowships Committee of the British Heart Foundation. In 2010, he was presented with the AstraZeneca Award from the International Society for Hypertension for his contribution to the clinical pharmacology and therapy of arterial hypertension. Professor Sever’s research interests include the pathophysiology of vascular disease, the evaluation of antihypertensive drug therapy and the impact of multiple risk factor intervention for the prevention of cardiovascular disease.