He is a former President of the European Society of Hypertension and the International Society of Hypertension and served as a Member of the British Heart Foundation until 2010. In 2009 he was elected Vice-President of the British Hypertension Society and is currently the serving President He was a Founding Member of the Academy of Medical Sciences and formerly a Member of the Academic Medicine Committee and serves on the Nominations Committee of the Royal College of Physicians. He has editorial board commitments to Hypertension, Journal of Clinical Metabolism & Diabetes, Therapeutic Advances in Cardiovascular Disease, The Open Cardiovascular Medicine Journal, Experimental Physiology, Current Hypertension Reviews, Hypertension, Diabetes and Vascular Disease Research and Blood Pressure. He is a grant reviewer for Health Boards in New Zealand, France, Holland and in the United Kingdom and in 2006 he was the Folkow Lecturer for the European Society of Hypertension and Lecturer of the Year in Belgium. His clinical interests are in high blood pressure and cardiovascular diseases and most recently he led the successful application to designate Manchester as a European Society of Hypertension Centre of Excellence and introduced renal denervation in collaboration with the Department of Radiology and the Manchester Heart Centre at Central Manchester Healthcare Trust. He is an international authority on high blood pressure and is regularly invited to give state of the art lectures at international meetings. He holds an Honorary Consultant contract with Central Manchester Healthcare Trust (Manchester Royal Infirmary) and holds regular clinics for the treatment of high blood pressure as well as General and Internal Medicine. He is a member of the Institute of Health Sciences Diabetes and Obesity Research Network and is a Fellow of the High Blood Pressure Council of the American Heart Association.