Our Authors

Lauren E Abrey

MD Associate Professor, Department of Neurology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA

Fast Facts: Brain Tumors, 2nd edn

Karen L Agnew

MBChB FRACP Consultant Dermatologist, Chelsea & Westminster and Charing Cross Hospitals, London, UK

Fast Facts: Skin Cancer

Multiple Authors

Fast Facts: Collection (32 titles)

Michael J Bailey

Consultant Urologist St George’s Hospital London, UK

Fast Facts: Bladder Cancer, 2nd edn

Jonathan Barker

MD FRCP, FRCPath Professor of Clinical Dermatology and Head of Division of Skin Sciences, St John’s Institute of Dermatology, St Thomas’ Hospital, London, UK

Fast Facts: Psoriasis, 3rd edn

David H Barlow

BSc MD FRCOG MRCP FMedSci, Executive Dean of Medicine and Professor of Reproductive Medicine, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK

Fast Facts: Menopause, 2nd edn

Peter J Barnes

MA DM DSc FRCP Professor of Thoracic Medicine, National Heart and Lung Institute, and Consultant Physician, Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK

Patient Pictures: Respiratory Diseases

Simon E Barton

BSc MD MRCOG Clinical Director, St Stephen’s Centre Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London, UK

Patient Pictures: Genitourinary Medicine

John Berth-Jones

Consultant Dermatologist, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, Coventry, UK Specialist Registrar in Dermatology Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals Norwich, UK

Fast Facts: Eczema and Contact Dermatitis

Vincenzo Bettoli

MD Assistant Professor, Department of Dermatology, University of Ferrara, Italy

Fast Facts: Acne

Manoop S Bhutani

Professor of Medicine Co-Director, Center for Endoscopic Research, Training and Innovation Director, Center for Endoscopic Ultrasound University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston Texas, USA

Fast Facts: Diseases of the Pancreas and Biliary Tract

Martin Birchall

MD FRCG FRCS (Otol) FRCS (ORL) Professor of Laryngology University of Bristol and Southmead Hospital, Bristol, UK

Patient Pictures: Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT)

David G Borenstein

MD Clinical Professor of Medicine, The George Washington University Medical Center, Arthritis and Rheumatism Associates, Washington, DC, USA

Fast Facts: Low Back Pain, 2nd edn

Deborah CM Boyle

MD MRCOG DFFP, Locum Consultant, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Royal Free Hospital, London, UK

Fast Facts: Religion and Medicine

John C S Breitner

Director, Centre for Studies on Prevention of Alzheimer's Disease, Douglas Mental Health University Institute Research Centre, and Pfizer Chair in Prevention of Dementia, Department of Psychiatry McGill University, Faculty of Medicine Montreal, Québec, Canada

Fast Facts: Dementia, 2nd edn

Martin J Brodie

MB ChB MRCP MD FRCP, Director, Epilepsy Unit, Division of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, Western Infirmary, Glasgow, UK

Fast Facts: Epilepsy, Revised 5th edn

Robert W Buchanan

Chief, Outpatient Research Program, Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Fast Facts: Schizophrenia, 3rd edn

Christopher B Bunker

MD FRCP Consultant Dermatologist Chelsea & Westminster and The Royal Marsden Hospitals, Professor of Dermatology, Imperial College School of Medicine, London, UK

Fast Facts: Skin Cancer

Andrei Calin

Consultant Rheumatologist Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases Bath, UK

Fast Facts: Low Back Pain, 2nd edn

Culley Carson

Professor and Chief of Division of Urology, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA

Fast Facts: Erectile Dysfunction, 4th edn

Carlo Catassi

Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Ancona, Ancona, Italy

Fast Facts: Celiac Disease, 2nd edn

K Ray Chaudhuri

MD FRCP DScProfessor of Neurology and Movement Disorders, and Consultant Neurologist, National Parkinson Foundation Centre of Excellence, King’s College Hospital and University Hospital of Lewisham, London, UK
 

Fast Facts: Parkinson's Disease, 3rd edn

Timothy J Christmas

Consultant Urological Surgeon Charing Cross and Chelsea and Westminster Hospitals London, UK

Patient Pictures: Bladder Disorders

Duncan Churchill

Imperial College School of Medicine at St Mary’s, London, UK

Patient Pictures: HIV Medicine

Christopher G Clough

MD FRCP Medical Director King’s College Hospital London, UK
 

Fast Facts: Parkinson's Disease, 3rd edn

Graham Collins

Department of Haematology, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK

Fast Facts: Lymphoma

Juliet E Compston

FRCP FRCPath FMedSci Professor of Bone Medicine University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine and Consultant Physician, Addenbrooke’s Hospital Cambridge, UK

Fast Facts: Osteoporosis, 6th edn

Philip Conaghan

MB BS PhD FRACP FRCP Professor of Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Leeds, Consultant Rheumatologist, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust & Leeds Primary Care Trust, West Yorkshire, UK

Fast Facts: Osteoarthritis, 2nd edn

Michael J Cousins

AM MD FFPMANZCAHead of Anaesthesia and Pain Management, Department of Anaesthesia, Royal North Shore Hospital, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Fast Facts: Chronic and Cancer Pain, 2nd edn

Barry Coward OBE

Editor

Succeeding as...: a Practice Management Team, 2nd edn

Donald E Craven

Professor of Medicine Tufts University School of Medicine Boston, Massachusetts Chair, Department of Infectious Disease Lahey Clinic, Burlington Massachusetts, USA

Fast Facts: Respiratory Tract Infection, 2nd edn

Seamus Dalton

MB BS FACSP FACRM FAFRM Consultant in Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine, North Sydney Orthopaedic & Sports Medicine Centre, Sydney, Australia

Fast Facts: Soft Tissue Disorders, 2nd edn

Gilbert H Daniels

MD Associate Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School Co-Director, Thyroid Clinic Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Fast Facts: Thyroid Disorders

Alun H Davies

MA DM FRCS Professor of Vascular Surgery and Honorary Consultant Surgeon, Department of Vascular Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College School of Medicine, Charing Cross Hospital, London, UK

Fast Facts: Vascular and Endovascular Surgery Highlights 2011-12

Colin M Dayan

MA FRCP PhD Head of Clinical Research Henry Wellcome Laboratory for Integrative Neuroscience and Endocrinology University of Bristol, Bristol, UK

Fast Facts: Thyroid Disorders

Giuseppe Del Priore

MD MPH Mary Fendrich Hulman Professor, Director of Gynecologic Oncology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, USA

Fast Facts: Gynecologic Oncology, 2nd edn

David W Dodick

Associate Professor Mayo Medical School Consultant Neurologist Department of Neurology Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale Arizona, USA

Fast Facts: Headaches, 2nd edn

Maxime Dougados

MD Professor of Rheumatology Hôpital Cochin René Descartes University Paris, France

Fast Facts: Ankylosing Spondylitis

Jo Douglass

MB BS MD FRACP Head, Department of Clinical Immunology and Allergy, Royal Melbourne
Hospital and Honorary Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne

Fast Facts: Asthma, 4th edn

Paul Durrington

MD FRCP FRCPath FMedSci Professor of Medicine, Cardiovascular Research Group, School of Clinical and Laboratory Science, University of Manchester, UK

Fast Facts: Hyperlipidemia, 5th edn

Anne Edwards

MD FRCP, Consultant Physician, Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer, Genitourinary Medicine, Oxford University Medical School, The Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, UK

Fast Facts: Sexually Transmitted Infections, 2nd edn

Alessio Fasano

Professor of Pediatrics, Medicine and Physiology, and Director, Mucosal Biology Research Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA

Fast Facts: Celiac Disease, 2nd edn

Martine F Flament

Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology, Director, Youth Research Unit, University of Ottawa, Institute of Mental Health Research, Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre, Ottawa, Canada

Fast Facts: Eating Disorders

Wytske J Fokkens

Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Fast Facts: Rhinitis, 2nd edn

J Colin Forfar

MD PhD FRCPE FRCP Consultant Cardiologist/Senior Lecturer in Medicine John Radcliffe Hospital and Oxford University, Oxford, UK

Patient Pictures: Cardiology, 2nd edn

Steve Furniss

MA MBBS FRCP Consultant Cardiologist, East Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust, Eastbourne, East Sussex, UK

Fast Facts: Cardiac Arrhythmias, 2 edn

Rollin M Gallagher

MD MPH DABPM FAAPM FAPA Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Anesthesiology and Director for Pain Policy Research and Primary Care, Penn Pain Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

Fast Facts: Chronic and Cancer Pain, 2nd edn

Julio Garcia-Aguilar

Professor of Surgery, Chair, Department of Surgery, City of Hope, Duarte, California, USA

Fast Facts: Colorectal Cancer, 3rd edn

Ailsa E Gebbie

MB ChB FRCOG FFSRH Consultant Gynecologist, NHS Lothian Family Planning Services Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Fast Facts: Contraception, 3rd end

Peter J Gilling

FRACS Consultant Urologist Promed Urology Tauranga New Zealand

Fast Facts: Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia, 7th edn

Guy Goodwin

FMedSci FRCPsych Professor of Psychiatry, University of Oxford Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, UK

Fast Facts: Bipolar Disorder, 2nd edn

David Green

MD PhD Professor of Medicine Feinberg School of Medicine Northwestern University Chicago, Illinois, USA

Fast Facts: Bleeding Disorders, 2nd edn

Jane Gunn

PhD MBBS DRANZCOG FRACGP Chair Primary Care Research Head, Department of General Practice, Melbourne Medical School, University of Melbourne, Australia

Fast Facts: Depression, 3rd edn

Mark Haddad

PhD RGN RMN Clinical Research Fellow, Institute of Psychiatry at King’s College London, UK

Fast Facts: Depression, 3rd edn

David Haslam

Chair, National Obesity Forum; Senior Partner, Watton Place Clinic, Watton-at-Stone, Hertfordshire; and Physician in Obesity Medicine, Luton & Dunstable Hospital, Luton, UK

Fast Facts: Obesity

Chris Hatton

Department of Haematology, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK

Fast Facts: Lymphoma

Brian Hazelman

MA FRCP Consultant Rheumatologist and Director Rheumatology Research Unit Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, UK

Fast Facts: Soft Tissue Disorders, 2nd edn

Paul R Healey

MBBS BMedSc MMed PhD FRANZCO, Clinical Senior Lecturer, Dept Ophthalmology, Uni Sydney and Centre for Vision Research, Westmead Millennium Institute & Save Sight Institute, and Glaucoma Specialist, Eye Associates, Sydney, Australia

Fast Facts: Glaucoma

Malcolm Hilton

BM BCh FRCS (Eng) FRCS (Otol) FRCS (ORL) Consultant in Otolaryngology Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Trust, UK

Patient Pictures: Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT)

Stephen T Holgate

MD DSc FRCP FMedSci MRC Clinical Professor of Immunopharmacology, School of Medicine, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, UK

Fast Facts: Asthma, 4th edn

Geoffrey Holmes

Consultant Physician and Gastroenterologist, Derbyshire Royal Infirmary, Derby, UK

Fast Facts: Celiac Disease, 2nd edn

John D Isaacs

PhD FRCP Professor of Clinical Rheumatology and Director, Wilson Horne Immunotherapy Centre
Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle University, UK

Fast Facts: Rheumatoid Arthritis, 2nd edn, Patient Pictures: Rheumatology, 2nd edn

Alison Jones

FRCP Consultant Medical Oncologist Royal Free Hospital London, UK

Fast Facts: Breast Cancer, 4th edn

David Joseph

MBBS FRACR MRACMA Clinical Professor Medical Director, Cancer Division and Director of Radiation Oncology St Charles Gairdner Hospital Perth, Australia

Fast Facts: Breast Cancer, 4th edn

Norman M Kaplan

MD Professor of Medicine Department of Internal Medicine University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dallas, Texas, USA

Fast Facts: Hypertension, 4th edn

Professor Bonnie J Kaplan

Professor, Department of Paediatrics Faculty of Medicine University of Calgary and Alberta Children’s Hospital Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Fast Facts: Specific Learning Difficulties

Gerry Kaye

MBChB MD FRCP FRACP Consultant Cardiologist and Associate Professor of Cardiology, Department of Cardiology, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Woolloongabba, Brisbane, Australia

Fast Facts: Cardiac Arrhythmias, 2 edn, Fast Facts: Heart Failure

Mohammed RS Keshtgar

BSc, MBBS, FRCS (Gen), PhDSenior Lecturer and Consultant Surgical Oncologist Department of Surgery, Royal Free and University College Medical School, UCL Hospitals NHS Trust, London, UK

Patient Pictures: Breast Cancer

Dr Amanda Kirby

Director The Dyscovery Centre Cardiff, UK

Fast Facts: Specific Learning Difficulties

Roger S Kirby

Professor of Urology, Director, The Prostate Centre, London, UK

Fast Facts: Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia, 7th edn, Fast Facts: Prostate Cancer, 7th edn, Patient Pictures: Prostate Diseases and their Treatments, 3rd edn, Patient Pictures: Urological Surgery, 2nd edn, Succeeding as...: a Hospital Doctor, 3rd edn

Kenneth L Koch

Professor of Medicine and Chief Gastroenterology and Hepatology North Carolina Baptist Hospital Wake Forest University Winston-Salem North Carolina, USA

Fast Facts: Dyspepsia, 2nd edn

Dariusz Korczyk

IntMedSpec(P) FRACP FCSANZ MHFA Cardiologist, Heart Failure Unit, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Australia.

Fast Facts: Heart Failure

Patrick Kwan

MD PhD, Associate Consultant and Honorary Associate Professor, Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, Hong Kong

Fast Facts: Epilepsy, Revised 5th edn

Malcolm H Lader

Professor of Clinical Psychopharmacology Institute of Psychiatry The Maudsley Hospital London, UK

Fast Facts: Anxiety, Panic and Phobias, 2nd edn

Michael J Lancaster Smith

Consultant Gastroenterologist and Director of Research and Development Queen Mary’s Hospital Sidcup, Kent, UK

Fast Facts: Dyspepsia, 2nd edn

Alison M Layton

MB ChB MRCP Consultant Dermatologist, Harrogate District Hospital, Harrogate, UK

Fast Facts: Acne

Men-Jean Lee

FACOG, Associate Professor, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, USA

Fast Facts: Religion and Medicine

Robert Lemery

MD FHRS FACC FRCP FESC Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology, Division of Cardiology, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Fast Facts: Cardiac Arrhythmias, 2 edn

Jeremy Levy

MD PhD ILTM FRCP Consultant Nephrologist, Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust, London, UK

Fast Facts: Renal Disorders, 2nd edn

Shôn W Lewis

BSc MD FRCPsych, Professor of Adult Psychiatry, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

Fast Facts: Schizophrenia, 3rd edn

Alan Lucas

Medical Research Council Professor, University College Professor of Paediatric Nutrition, Director of Childhood Nutrition Centre, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children and Institute of Child Health, London, UK

Fast Facts: Infant Nutrition

Christopher A Ludlum

PhD FRCP FRCPath Professor of Haematology and Coagulation Medicine University of Edinburgh Director of the Haemophilia and Thrombosis Centre Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, UK

Fast Facts: Bleeding Disorders, 2nd edn

Graham A MacGregor

FAHA FRCP Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry London, UK

Fast Facts: Hypertension, 4th edn

William MacNee

MB ChB MD FRCP Professor of Respiratory and Environmental Medicine ELEGI Colt Laboratories University of Edinburgh Medical School Edinburgh UK

Fast Facts: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, 2nd edn

Thomas Mahl

MD University of Buffalo School of medicine Buffalo, New York, USA

Fast Facts: Liver Disorders

Howard I Malbach

Professor of Dermatology, University of California, San Francisco, USA

Fast Facts: Eczema and Contact Dermatitis

Thomas H Marwick

MD PhD MPH FRACP FESC FRCP FACC Section Head, Cardiovascular Imaging, Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic,Professor of Medicine, Lerner College of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

Fast Facts: Heart Failure

Warren P Mason

Staff Physician Department of Medical Oncology and Hematology Pencer Brain Tumor Centre Princess Margaret Hospital Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Fast Facts: Brain Tumors, 2nd edn

Chris G McMahon

Associate Professor, University of Sydney, and Director, Australian Centre for Sexual Health, Berry Road Medical Centre, St Leonards, Australia

Fast Facts: Erectile Dysfunction, 4th edn

Alan Menter

MD Chief, Department of Dermatology, Baylor Medical Center, Dallas and Clinical Professor, University of Texas, Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, USA

Fast Facts: Psoriasis, 3rd edn

Larry W Moreland

MD Margaret J Miller Professor of Arthritis Research and Chief, Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University of Pittsburgh, USA
 

Fast Facts: Rheumatoid Arthritis, 2nd edn

Tony Mundy

Professor of Urology, University of London; Medical Director, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK

Succeeding as...: a Hospital Doctor, 3rd edn

Matthew T Naughton

MD FRACP Associate Professor Department of Allergy, Immunology and Respiratory Medicine Alfred Hospital and Monash University Melbourne, Australia

Fast Facts: Obstructive Sleep Apnea

Penny Neild

St George’s Hospital, London, UK

Patient Pictures: Gastroenterology, 2nd edn

Amanda E Nelson

MD MSCR, Assistant Professor of Medicine
Division of Rheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology, University of North Carolina, Thurston Arthritis Research Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA

Fast Facts: Osteoarthritis, 2nd edn

John P Neoptolemos

MA MB BCHIR MD FRCS Professor of Surgery and Head of the Institute of Cancer Studies University of Liverpool Division of Surgery and Oncology Royal Liverpool and University Hospital, UK

Fast Facts: Diseases of the Pancreas and Biliary Tract

Antony Newell

MBBS MRCOG Consultant GUM HIV, The Mayday Genitourinary Department, The Mayday Hospital, London, UK

Patient Pictures: Genitourinary Medicine

Diane K Newman

DNP FAAN BCB-PMD, Co-director, Penn Center for Continence and Pelvic Health, Division of Urology, University of Pennsylvania, Health System and Senior Research Investigator, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Fast Facts: Bladder Disorders, 2nd edn

Andy Nordin

MBBS MRCOG Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, UK

Patient Pictures: Gynaecological Oncology

Katharine O'Connell White

MD, MPH, FACOG Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

Fast Facts: Contraception, 3rd end

John O'Grady

MD Institute of Liver Studies King's College School of Medicine London, UK

Fast Facts: Liver Disorders

Manish I Patel

Senior Lecturer, University of Sydney, and Urological Cancer Surgeon, Westmead and Sydney Adventist Hospital, Westmead, Australia

Fast Facts: Prostate Cancer, 7th edn

Richard Peatfield

Consultant Neurologist West London Neurosciences Centre Charing Cross Hospital London, UK

Fast Facts: Headaches, 2nd edn

Barbara Phillips

MD MSPH Professor, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Department of Internal Medicine University of Kentucky College of Medicine Lexington, Kentucky, USA

Fast Facts: Obstructive Sleep Apnea

Christopher J Price

MBBCh MRCGP DipMedEd Associate Dean, Postgraduate Education for General Practice, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, UK

Fast Facts: Minor Surgery, 2nd edn

Charles Pusey

MB BChir MA MSc FRCP Professor, Renal Section, Division of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College, London, UK

Fast Facts: Renal Disorders, 2nd edn

Derek Raghavan

Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Center Ohio USA

Fast Facts: Bladder Cancer, 2nd edn

David S Rampton

St. Bartholomew’s and Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry London, UK

 "Fast Facts, are so beautifully produced, so nice, you don't want them on your computer, you want them on your shelf. They are not a reference work, you read them in a couple of hours."

Fast Facts: Inflammatory Bowel Disease, 3rd edn

Robert C Read

Honorary Consultant Physician and Professor of Infectious Diseases Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield, UK

Fast Facts: Respiratory Tract Infection, 2nd edn

Stephen I Rennard

MD Larson Professor of Medicine Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Section Department of Internal Medicine University of Nebraska Medical Center Omaha, Nebraska, USA

Fast Facts: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, 2nd edn

Clifford J Rosen

MD Senior Scientist, Maine Medical Center Research Institute, Scarborough Maine, USA

Fast Facts: Osteoporosis, 6th edn

Gary Sachs

MD Director, Harvard Bipolar Clinic and Research Program, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

Fast Facts: Bipolar Disorder, 2nd edn

Katherine Samaras

MBBS PHD FRACP Associate Professor, The University of New South Wales; Senior Staff Specialist, St Vincent's Hospital; Head, Diabetes and Obesity Clinical Group Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, New South Wales

Take a look at Dr Samaras' TED^x Lecture Starve to Survive, in which she focuses on obesity as a healthcare priority and asks 'Do we have an obligation to stop people eating too much?' and 'Is it time to ban high-sugar foods?'

Fast Facts: Diabetes Mellitus, 4th edn

Glenis K Scalding

Consultant Physician in Clinical Immunology, Allergy and Rhinology Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital London, UK

Fast Facts: Rhinitis, 2nd edn

Steven C Schachter

MS MD FAAN, Director of Research, Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Fast Facts: Epilepsy, Revised 5th edn

Ian N Scobie

MD FRCP Consultant Endocrinologist, Medway Maritime Hospital, Gillingham, Kent and Honorary Senior Lecturer, King's College London School of Medicine, London, UK

Fast Facts: Diabetes Mellitus, 4th edn

Kapil D Sethi

MD FRCP Professor of Neurology and Director, Movement Disorders Program Georgia Health Sciences University Augusta, Georgia, USA
 

Fast Facts: Parkinson's Disease, 3rd edn

Shohreh Shahabi

MD FACOG Chair, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Danbury Hospital and Chair, Reproductive Tumor Biology, Biomedical Research Laboratory, Danbury, Connecticut, USA

Fast Facts: Gynecologic Oncology, 2nd edn

Fergus Shanahan

Cork University Hospital Cork, Eire

Fast Facts: Inflammatory Bowel Disease, 3rd edn

Leena Sharma

MD Professor of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Jackie Sherrard

MD FRCP, Consultant Physician, Genitourinary Medicine, Oxford University Medical School, The Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, UK

Fast Facts: Sexually Transmitted Infections, 2nd edn

Saul Shiffman

Research Professor of Clinical and Health Psychology, Psychiatry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Pittsburgh; Pinney Associates, Pennsylvania, USA

Fast Facts: Smoking Cessation, 2nd edn

Peter Simcock

MB ChB MRCP FRCS FRCOphth DO, Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon, West of England Eye Unit, Exeter, Devon, UK

Fast Facts: Ophthalmology, Patient Pictures: Ophthalmology

Rodney Sinclair

Professor of Dermatology, University of Melbourne, Director of Dermatology Services, St. Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, Director of Research and Training, Skin and Cancer Foundation, Darlington/Westmead, NSW, Australia

Fast Facts: Disorders of the Hair and Scalp, Fast Facts: Minor Surgery, 2nd edn

Ajay Singh

MD Clinical Director of the Renal Division, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

Fast Facts: Renal Disorders, 2nd edn

Alex Slack

MRCOG, Consultant Urogynaecologist, Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, UK

Fast Facts: Bladder Disorders, 2nd edn

Catherine Smith

MD FRCP Senior Lecturer and Consultant Dermatologist, St John’s Institute of Dermatology, St Thomas’ Hospital, London, UK

Fast Facts: Psoriasis, 3rd edn

J Richard Smith

MD FACOG Consultant Gynaecological Surgeon, West London Gynaecological Cancer Centre, Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK

Fast Facts: Gynecologic Oncology, 2nd edn

Richard Smith

MRCP PhD Consultant Senior Lecturer in Renal Medicine, Academic Renal Unit, University of Bristol, Southmead Hospital, Bristol, UK

Patient Pictures: End-Stage Renal Failure

Allan Sniderman

MD FRCP(C) Edwards Professor of Cardiology and Professor of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Fast Facts: Hyperlipidemia, 5th edn

Cathy Speed

Consultant Rheumatologist and Director Sports and Exercise Medicine Unit Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, UK

Fast Facts: Soft Tissue Disorders, 2nd edn

Rob Stein

MA, MB BChir, PhD, FRCP Senior Lecturer and Consultant Medical Oncologist Department of Oncology, Royal Free and University College Medical School, UCL Hospitals NHS Trust, London, UK

Patient Pictures: Breast Cancer

Hans Steiner

Professor of Psychiatry, Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California, USA

Fast Facts: Eating Disorders

John Sweetenham

Taussig Cancer Center, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Fast Facts: Lymphoma

Eunice Tan

Specialist Registrar in Dermatology, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals, Norwich, UK

Fast Facts: Eczema and Contact Dermatitis

Irving Taylor

Professor of Surgery, Director of Medical Studies and Vice Dean, UCL Medical School, University College London, London, UK

Fast Facts: Colorectal Cancer, 3rd edn

Diane Thiboutot

MD Associate Professor of Dermatology, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA

Fast Facts: Acne

Ravi Thomas

MBBS MD FRANZCO, Director of Glaucoma Services, Queensland Eye Institute, and Professor, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

Fast Facts: Glaucoma

W Grant Thompson

Former Consultant Gastroenterologist Ottawa Hospital and Emeritus Professor of Medicine University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Fast Facts: Irritable Bowel Syndrome, 2nd edn

Thomas W Uhde

Professor and Chairperson Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences Wayne State University School of Medicine Detroit, USA

Fast Facts: Anxiety, Panic and Phobias, 2nd edn

Jayant S Vaidya

MBBS MS DNB FRCS PhD FRCS(Gen) Senior Lecturer and Consultant Surgeon University College, London, UK

Fast Facts: Breast Cancer, 4th edn

Désirée van der Heijde

MD PhD Professor of Rheumatology University Hospital Maastricht Maastricht, The Netherlands

Fast Facts: Ankylosing Spondylitis

Robyn Ward

Director of Area Cancer Services, South East Sydney and llawarra Area Health Service, Profesor of Medicine, POW Clinical School, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Fast Facts: Colorectal Cancer, 3rd edn, Fast Facts: Multiple Sclerosis, 2nd edn

Alan J Wein

MD FACS PhD (HON), Founders Professor of Urology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, and Chief of Urology, Penn Medicine/University of Pennsylvania Health System, Perelman Center of Advanced Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Fast Facts: Bladder Disorders, 2nd edn

Robert West

Professor of Health Psychology, Director of Tobacco Studies, Cancer Research UK Health Behaviour Unit, University College London, UK

Fast Facts: Smoking Cessation, 2nd edn

Lawrence J Whalley

Professor of Mental Health University of Aberdeen Clinical Research Centre Royal Cornhill Hospital Aberdeen, UK

Fast Facts: Dementia, 2nd edn

Gary Wittert

Mortlock Professor of Medicine and Head, School of Medicine, University of Adelaide; and Senior Consultant Endocrinologist, Royal Adelaide Hospital, South Australia, Australia

Fast Facts: Obesity

Barry G Wren

AM MD MBBS MHPEd FRCOG FRANZCOG, Director (retired), Sydney Menopause Centre, Royal Hospital for Women, Sydney, Australia

Fast Facts: Menopause, 2nd edn

Jonathan Zenilman

MD FACP, Professor of Medicine, Chief, Infectious Diseases Division, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Baltimore, USA

Fast Facts: Sexually Transmitted Infections, 2nd edn

Stanley Zlotkin

Professor, Departments of Pediatrics and Nutritional Sciences and Research Fellow, Senior Scientist, Program in Metabolism Research Institute, Head, Division of Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Fast Facts: Infant Nutrition