Professor David Crossman

Professor David Crossman graduated at St Bartholomew’s hospital London in 1979 with a first class BSc in Physiology, and in 1982 MBBS. After junior hospital jobs in London and Birmingham, Professor Crossman went to the Hammersmith Hospital, and trained in clinical pharmacology and then in Cardiology - Clinical Cardiovascular Medicine has been Professor Crossman’s interest since this time. 

Professor Crossman’s research training started as an Medical Research Council training fellowship, at Clinical Sciences Centre, at Northwick Park, where he developed his interest in vascular biology and innate immunity. Professor Crossman became Professor of Clinical Cardiology, at the University of Sheffield, in 1994, and worked as a honorary consultant cardiologist practicing interventional cardiology. Professor Crossman developed a research programme around the inflammatory basis of ischemic heart disease, in particular the role of IL-1 in atherosclerotic disease. He was Director of an NIHR Biomedical Research unit in Sheffield, and then became Dean of Norwich Medical School in 2011, and moved to be Dean of Medicine at the University of St Andrews in 2014. 

Professor Crossman is an honorary consultant cardiologist, in NHS Fife, practicing outpatients cardiology. He has developed the Scottish graduate entry (ScotGEM) medicine programme run between the Universities of St Andrews and Dundee, and is Chair of the Medical Research Council / National Institute for Health Research Efficacy Mechanism and Evaluation Board and a member of the British Heart Foundation Chairs and Programme Grants committee.