Editorial
Professor M J Davies, Editor Heart 1992-99
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With this issue of Heart, Professor Michael Davies relinquishes the Editorship, which he has held for the past seven years. He leaves to take up the post of Assistant Medical Director (Research) of the British Heart Foundation.
I was extremely fortunate to have been taught by Mike Davies both as an
undergraduate medical student and as a research fellow. His approach to
his work has always been characterised by a friendly but relentlessly
fierce scientific objectivity. Over the years he has acquired many
friends among senior cardiologists and cardiac surgeons. He has,
however, never compromised in explaining the truth as he saw it from a
pathologist's perspective, even when he knew that this was not what
his friends wanted to hear. His pre-eminence in the fields of coronary
artery pathology,1-3 sudden death,4 an
understanding of valvar pathology,5 6 and
cardiomyopathies together with his outstanding abilities as a teacher,
made him
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