Professor Roger Boyle

* Appointed as National Director for Heart Disease in March 2000

* Chairman of the National Taskforce for CHD

* Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and the European Society of Cardiology, and a member of the Council of the British Cardiac Society

* Previously Clinical Director for General Medicine, and General Manager at York District Hospital and a member of the Joint Committee on Higher Medical Education

* Professor Boyle qualified from London Hospital Medical College in 1972, and trained in cardiology in London, Manchester and Leeds