Professor Peter Penson

Peter Penson is Professor of Pharmacy Practice and Head of Subject for Pharmacy at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. He is the co-Leader of the Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics Research Group within the School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences

He is a Honorary Research Associate at University of Liverpool, UK and an active member of the Liverpool Centre for Cardiovascular Science. In addition, Professor Penson is Editor in Chief of Expert Review of Clinical Pharmacology. Associate Editor of BMC Pharmacology and Toxicology and a Section Editor of Archives of Medical Science: Civilisation Diseases. He was previously Executive Editor of the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, A Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, he has conducted research at Cardiff University and the University of Surrey, both in the UK, and at the University of Regensburg, Germany. Professor Penson’s research interests include cardiovascular pharmacology and clinical outcomes in cardiovascular disease, with a particular focus on hypertension, dyslipidaemias and ischaemia-reperfusion injury. He is primarily involved in observational studies, clinical trials and meta-analysis. He is a member of the International Lipid Expert Panel and he works with many international experts in the Lipid and Blood Pressure Meta-Analysis Collaboration Group. A pharmacist, registered with the UK General Pharmaceutical Council, Professor Penson is a fellow of The European Society of Cardiology, and a member of The European Atherosclerosis Society, The British Pharmacological Society and The British Society for Cardiovascular Research and the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.

Professor Penson teaches cardiovascular physiology, pharmacology and therapeutics on the MPharm. programme. As a pharmacist, he is also involved in teaching Pharmacy Practice elements of the course. He has responsibility for undergraduate and postgraduate masters projects in addition to supervising PhD candidates.

Professor Penson is currently an External Examiner for Undergraduate Programmes at UWE Bristol, he has acted as an external examiner for postgraduate Degrees at Coventry University and the University of Birmingham.

He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. In 2019 he was designated as a Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology. The fellowship was awarded for scientific excellence. Since 2023, he has been a Fellow of the British Pharmacological Society.