Heart Disease and Diabetes: Edition 2

Miles Fisher graduated from Glasgow University in 1979. He worked as a research fellow in the Department of Diabetes in Gartnavel General Hospital in the 1980s, where his interests were diabetes and the heart, and hypoglycaemia. He received his MD in 1988 for his thesis on 'Evidence for a diabetic cardiopathy.' From 1992-2001 he was a consultant physician at the Royal Alexandra Hospital, Paisley, and since 2001 has been a consultant physician at Glasgow Royal Infirmary. In 2010 he was made an Honorary Professor in the University of Glasgow. He was on the steering committee of the DIGAMI 2 study and was the Scottish co-ordinator. He was an events adjudicator for the HOPE and HOPE-TOO studies and is currently an events adjudicator for the ACE Trial. Miles Fisher is the author or co-author of over 130 original papers and review articles. He is the editor or co-editor of four books on heart disease in diabetes, and two books on hypoglycaemia.