About the editors

Andrew R Houghton studied Medicine at the University of Oxford, before undertaking training posts in Oxford, Nottingham and Leicester throughout the 1990s. In 2001 he participated in the Visiting Clinician Program at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, USA. In 2002 he was appointed as Consultant Physician & Cardiologist at Grantham & District Hospital, Lincolnshire, UK, and is also a Visiting Fellow at the University of Lincoln. He has written a number of medical textbooks, including Making Sense of Echocardiography, and (with David Gray) the award-winning Making Sense of the ECG and its companion volume Cases for Self-Assessment. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and a member of the British Cardiovascular Society, the European Association of Echocardiography, and both the British and American Societies of Echocardiography.

David Gray qualified as a Physiotherapist in the Royal Air Force before studying medicine at Nottingham University Medical School. He had training posts in Nottingham, Lincoln, the West Midlands and the East Midlands and gained accreditation in general internal medicine and cardiovascular medicine. He is a Reader in Medicine at the University of Nottingham and an Honorary Consultant Physician and Cardiologist at University Hospital, Nottingham.He has written a number of medical textbooks including the double award-winning Making Sense of the ECG and its companion volume Cases for Self-Assessment (both with Andrew Houghton) and the award-winning Introduction to Symptoms and Signs in Clinical Medicine (with Peter Toghill). Essentials of Physical Health in Mental Illness (with Irene Cormac) is in press. He is a former Visiting Fellow of Duke University Medical Centre, North Carolina USA, a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Public Health.