Dr Simon Howell

Dr Howell received his undergraduate training in medicine in Cambridge and London and qualified from St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, London in 1984. He was trained in anaesthesia in the Oxford Region of the United Kingdom and spent the period between 1990 and 1997 working at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford. Between 1992 and 1997 he was Clinical Lecturer in Anaesthetics in the Nuffield Department of Anaesthetics in Oxford. In 1995 and 1996 he took one-year leave from his post in Oxford to study Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He moved to the University of Bristol in 1998 and has moved to the University of Leeds as a Consultant Senior Lecturer in Anaesthesia in 2001. Dr Howell is a Section Editor of the British Journal of Anaesthesia, Clinical Director of the West Yorkshire Comprehensive Research Network and a member of the Research Council of the National Institute of Academic Anaesthesia. Dr Howell has conducted research into perioperative myocardial ischaemia and into the epidemiology of perioperative cardiovascular complications. His current research interests include perioperative myocardial injury, perioperative risk stratification using exercise testing, quality of life outcomes after vascular surgery and changes in the cerebral circulation following carotid endarterectomy. Dr Howell has received research funding from the European Society of Anaesthesiology, the National Institute of Academic Anaesthesia, the National Institute of Health Research, Heart Research UK, the Vascular Anaesthesia Society and Yorkshire Cancer Research.