Dr Andrew R Houghton MA(Oxon), DM, BM BCh, FRCP (Lond) studied medicine at the University of Oxford and undertook postgraduate training in cardiology in Nottingham and Leicester. He has also trained at Stanford University in California and at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. He was appointed as a consultant cardiologist at the United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust, UK, in 2002. His subspecialty interest is in cardiac imaging (echocardiography and cardiovascular MRI). He is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (London). He has published several textbooks in cardiology, including Making Sense of the ECG (winner of the Royal Society of Medicine's Richard Asher Prize and the BMA's Student Textbook Award), Making Sene of the ECG: Cases for Self Assessment and Making Sense of Echocardiography (Highly Commended at the BMA's Medical Book Awards).