Francesco Paolo Cappuccio graduated in Medicine in Naples in 1981 and, in 1983, he completed his specialty in Diabetes and Metabolic Disorders. He completed his post-graduate training in General Internal Medicine working in London at Charing Cross and St. George’s Hospitals, as a Clinical Academic. In 1993, he completed a Master's in Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine where he then worked for three years training in Public Health. In 2005, he moved to the University of Warwick to take up the Cephalon Chair of Cardiovascular Medicine and Epidemiology. In 2012, he was awarded a High Doctorate (DSc) by the University of Warwick. His main interests are in the prevention, detection, and management of hypertension and its complications of the heart, brain, kidneys and circulation. His research interests are the epidemiology of cardiovascular disease, nutrition and health, metabolic abnormalities and cardiovascular risk, risk in ethnic minorities, both in developed and developing countries, and sleep epidemiology. He was the founder of the Sleep Health and Society Programme of Teaching and Research at Warwick. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Faculty of Public Health, British and Irish Hypertension Society (Past-President 2017-19), American Heart Association, and European Society of Cardiology. Since 2008, he has been the Director of the ESH Centre of Excellence and Head of the World Organization Collaborating Centre for Nutrition.
