Fellow

Professor Christopher Mathias is Professor of Neurovascular Medicine at Imperial College and at the Institute of Neurology. He has made important contributions to our understanding of the role of the autonomic nervous system in health and disease, particularly in relation to the neural and neuro-hormonal control of the cardiovascular system in humans. He is a clinical investigator par excellence who has studied patients with lesions of the autonomic nervous system resulting either from trauma or disease. His work illustrates how the study of supposedly rare disorders, when studied with flair, can yield information of enormous value to both physiology and medicine.