Ed Nicol MD, MBA, DAvMed, FRCP, FRCR, FRAeS, FACC, FSCCT, RAF is a Royal Air Force consultant cardiologist who works as an honorary consultant at both the Royal Brompton and Chelsea & Westminster Hospitals. He is an honorary senior lecturer at both Imperial College, London (Cardiology) and Keele University (Healthcare Leadership) where he gained his Doctorate and MBA respectively. He has published over 120 original papers, book chapters and a book covering cardiovascular CT, cardiology, military and aviation medicine, and healthcare leadership.

He sits on the SCCT Board of Directors as Vice President, he is Chair of the UK cardiovascular imaging Council, is the UK Royal College of Radiologists’ Travelling Professor of Cardiovascular Imaging and a  past President of the British Society of Cardiovascular Imaging and British Society of Cardiovascular CT.

He is an Editor-in-Chief of both Royal College of Physicians’ journals, Clinical Medicine and Future Healthcare Journal and an associate editor of the RCR Clinical Radiology journal.