Teaching
Cardiac Electrophysiology, Physiology and Pharmacology
I am "Science System Lead in Cardiology" for the MBChB Programme, so co-lead the first and second-year cardiology blocks. I am also involved in the final year Undergraduate Life Sciences Cardiovascular and Respiratory Pharmacology (Life313/401) module in which I teach the basics of cardiac electrophysiology, the pharmacology used in the treatment of arrhythmias, acute coronary syndromes, and future directions for putative cardioprotective interventions/drugs.
Vascular Physiology and Pharmacology
In Life330 I teach the basics of vasomotor control, including the fundamentals of vascular reactivity to constrictor and dilator compounds. I also develop this into the underlying pathophysiological changes that occur within blood vessels in hypertension and what tools are available for treating these disorders.
Ion channel physiology and calcium homeostasis
Ion channels are a fundamental part of every physiological or pathophysiological response in the body. Understanding the basics of ion channel behaviour can help in understanding normal physiological responses right through to complex diseases. I teach the measurements of ionic currents, and the mechanisms of channel behaviour together with how this couples to intracellular calcium homeostasis on several courses within the University of Liverpool, but also on an internationally attended electrophysiology workshop hosted at the Marine Biological Association in Plymouth, the site of pioneering electrophysiological measurements by Hodgkin and Huxley in the 1950's.
Modules for 2025-26
CARDIOVASCULAR PHARMACOLOGY
Module code: LIFE401
Role: Teaching
Cardiovascular and Respiratory Pharmacology
Module code: LIFE313
Role: Teaching
Communication and Study Skills for the Life Sciences
Module code: LIFE130
Role: Teaching
PHARMACOLOGY RESEARCH PROJECTS
Module code: PHAR660
Role: Teaching
PRACTICAL PHARMACOLOGY
Module code: LIFE234
Role: Teaching
Techniques in Biological and Biomedical Sciences Research
Module code: BIOS775
Role: Teaching
The Cardiovascular System in Health and Disease
Module code: LIFE330
Role: Teaching
Supervised Theses
- Identification of differentially expressed genes and their functional activity in rat vascular tissues
- Investigating The Roles That G Protein-Coupled Receptor Kinase 2 Plays in Arterial Smooth Muscle Proliferation
- Investigation into novel gut-microbiome mediated pathways in cardiovascular disease
- Modulation of ion channels as cardioprotective targets in ischaemic injury
- The Protective Effects of Remote Ischaemic Preconditioning on Pressure Overload-Induced Myocardial Remodelling
- The response of isolated ventricular cardiomyocytes to acute changes in metabolic substrates
- The role of the intrinsic cardiac nervous system in cardiac physiology and disease
- Ventricular myocyte sarcolemmal Kir6.1/SUR2B potassium channels; A potential effector of cardioprotection