Dr Nick West is the Chief Medical Officer and Divisional Vice-President of Global Medical Affairs of the Vascular Division at Abbott, a global medical device company developing life-changing technologies to reduce the burden of cardiovascular disease and improve patients’ lives. He graduated in medicine from Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge and St. Thomas’ Hospital Medical School, London, and trained in interventional cardiology at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford and Green Lane Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand. His postgraduate research in vascular biology, undertaken in the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Oxford and at Duke University, led to the award of the Sir Lionel Whitby Medal and the Sir Walter Langdon-Brown Prize at the University of Cambridge. Until late 2019 he was a practicing interventional cardiologist at the Royal Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, UK; he has published over 120 peer-reviewed papers & book chapters on topics including coronary physiology/microvascular function, intracoronary imaging/vulnerable plaque detection, acute myocardial infarction and use of bioresorbable scaffolds. He was also a founding member and latterly Chief Medical Officer of the Cambridge-based biotechnology startup, PlaqueTec Ltd.