Dorian Haskard

Dorian Haskard obtained his undergraduate education at the University of Oxford, before moving to the Middlesex Hospital in London for clinical training. Following a residency in Internal Medicine, he spent two years as a Fellow with Morris Ziff at UT Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, where he developed an interest in vascular inflammation.  Upon returning to London in 1986, he completed specialist clinical training in Rheumatology, after which he was awarded a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellowship to develop his own laboratory. He joined the Royal Postgraduate Medical School at Hammersmith Hospital as Senior Lecturer in the Department of Medicine in 1990. In October 1995 he was appointed to the BHF Sir John McMichael Chair of Cardiovascular Medicine and to a Personal Chair in Rheumatology at the RPMS.  Within Imperial College,  he is currently Head of Vascular Sciences within the National Heart and Lung Institute; Head of Immunology and Inflammation within the Department of Medicine;  and Chief of Service of Vascular Rheumatology.  Research interests include the regulation of vascular endothelial gene expression in inflammation; the pathogenesis of accelerated atherosclerosis in inflammatory rheumatic diseases, and mechanisms of dysfunctional inflammation Behçet’s syndrome.