Peter Sleight was a British research cardiologist and an Honorary Consultant Physician at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford and the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
13 Facts About Peter Sleight
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Peter Sleight retired from the British Heart Foundation -sponsored Field Marshal Alexander Chair of Cardiovascular Medicine in 1994, but continued to work at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford.
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Peter Sleight was Deputy Chairman of the HPS Steering Committee.
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Peter Sleight was a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology and an authority in the field of cardiology research.
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Peter Sleight peer reviewed articles and co-authored scientific papers on topics such as blood pressure monitoring and control, autonomic control of the circulation, prognostic value of measures of heart rate variability, and pathophysiology of ischaemic heart disease, heart failure, and hypertension in journals such as The Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine, Circulation, Heart, European Heart Journal, the British Medical Journal and Clinical Science.
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Peter Sleight was considered to be among world leading eminent cardiologists and co-authored over 500 papers.
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Peter Sleight's work according to Microsoft Academic Search has been cited in over 40,000 papers and in hundreds of text books in the field of cardiology.
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Peter Sleight was born in Hull, the eldest of three children of William Sleight, a town planner in Leeds, and Mary Sleight.
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Peter Sleight studied Medicine at Cambridge University and at St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School, qualifying in medicine in 1953.
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Peter Sleight completed over 50 years service working for the National Health Service.
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Peter Sleight is accredited for being the first to carry out studies of the effect of Aspirin on cardiac function and stroke prevention in the early 1970s.
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Peter Sleight is Emeritus Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at Oxford University.
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Peter Sleight was an active leading contributor to the field of cardiology research.