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Martin Cowie is Professor of Cardiology (Health Services Research) and is an Honorary Consultant Cardiologist at the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust.

Prof. Cowie qualified from the University of Aberdeen in 1989. He then trained in London in cardiology and epidemiology, undertaking a MSc in Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. His MD related to work on the epidemiology of heart failure in the UK. After a brief period back in Scotland, he returned to Imperial College in 2001, taking up the Chair of Cardiology (Health Services Research) at the National Heart & Lung Institute, with his clinical practice based at the Royal Brompton Hospital in Chelsea.

Professor Cowie is a founding member and past-Chair of the British Society for Heart Failure, he has also sat on the Board of the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology. He is a member of the European Society of Cardiology's EU Affairs Committee, and sits on the strategic Cardiovascular Roundtable of that organisation.

Professor Cowie lectures widely in the UK and internationally on cardiovascular disease, and organises many multi-professional educational events. He has also written a number of chapters for medical textbooks, including sections on heart failure for the Oxford Textbook of Medicine, Cardiovascular Medicine, and Essential Cardiology. Professor Cowie has published widely in cardiovascular medical journals too. He is also frequently interviewed in the national media regarding heart issues, and particularly enjoys talking to the public about heart matters, working alongside the Wellcome Collection, the Cambridge Science Festival and other educational bodies.