Professor Cappuccio is a cardiovascular physician, a clinical epidemiologist and a public health expert. After graduating in Naples, he moved to Britain where he was trained at Charing Cross Hospital, St George’s Hospital Medical School and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in London. He became Professor of Clinical Epidemiology & Primary Care at St George’s, University of London. In 2005 he moved to the University of Warwick to take up the newly established Cephalon Chair in Cardiovascular Medicine & Epidemiology. His main interests are the prevention, detection and management of hypertension and its complications in the heart, brain, kidneys and the circulation. His research interests are the epidemiology of cardiovascular disease, nutrition and health, metabolic abnormalities and cardiovascular risk, risk in ethnic minorities, both in developed and developing countries. He teams up a multi-disciplinary research group with a number of research objectives: to develop and establish a programme of national and international cardiovascular epidemiology, to develop and establish a significant national and international programme of research into Sleep, Health and Society, to facilitate clinical research into sleep disorders, to assist the development of undergraduate and postgraduate education into sleep medicine and its impact on health and society.
Prof. Cappuccio is member of the Steering Committee of the Olivetti Heart Study, principal investigator of The Wandsworth Heart and Stroke Study and ASCOT and Kumasi Study in West Africa. He is also co-principal investigator of the IMMIDIET European Project. He is treasurer of the executive committee of British Hypertension Society, member of UK Stroke Research Network Prevention Clinical Study group and Technical Expert of WHO.
He holds membership in several learned societies and is author of almost 200 publications in peer-review intermational journals.