Opie, Lionel H.

Lionel H. Opie, M.D., Ph.D., is Professor of Medicine at the University of Cape Town and Visiting Professor, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University Medical Center, California. After graduating from the University of Cape Town, he studied at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and was a Research Fellow at Harvard from 1959-1961. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London in 1974. From 1976-1978, he was President of the International Society for Heart Research. He is the author of The Heart: Physiology and Metabolism, Second Edition, 1991, and Angiotensin-Converting...