Dr Mark Westwood was educated at St John’s College, Oxford and St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London. His interest in cardiac MRI (CMR) started in 2001 with his thesis of CMR.

He was appointed as a Consultant Cardiologist at the London Chest Hospital in 2008 where he was lead clinician for CMR. He set up, led and developed from scratch the CMR service into one of the largest UK CMR services with a particular focus on the assessment of coronary artery disease.