Richard Sutton born in Newport, UK, educated at King’s College, London University and King’s College Hospital Medical School graduated in 1964, trained in Medicine and Cardiology in London/North Carolina.

He has been Consultant Cardiologist at Westminster, Chelsea & Westminster, Royal Brompton and St Mary’s Hospitals, London 1976-2011, became Professor of Clinical Cardiology at Imperial College, London 2003, took DSc London 1988, has published >390 peer-reviewed papers mostly on pacing & syncope and was made Emeritus Professor at Imperial in 2011.

He was Co-Founder (1976) & President of British Heart Rhythm Society (then BPEG)1990-1995, and of European Working Group Cardiac Pacing 1998-2000 (now EHRA), Editor-in-Chief of Europace 1998-2006, now Founding Editor & President & Co-Founder of Cardiology section, Royal Society of Medicine (2006), London. He was Heart Rhythm Society Pioneer in Cardiac Pacing and Electrophysiology in 2016.