He currently holds a number of research grants for the study of heart muscle disease with Tissue Doppler and the use of contrast microbubbles for detecting myocardial perfusion and inflammation. He is devoted to teaching both, under-graduate and post-graduate medical students and is an invited lecturer and visiting Professor in several universities around the world.

He has published more that 300 full papers in peer review journals, more than 400 abstracts, more than 20 book chapters and two books on non-invasive imaging of myocardial ischaemia and Echocardiography. He is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology, American Heart Association, Royal College of Physicians, European Society of Cardiology. He served as President of the British Society of Echocardiography between 2001 and 2003 and as President of the European Association of Echocardiography of the European Society of Cardiology (2006-08). He has also held several positions in the European Society of Cardiology over the years and remains an active Fellow of the Society.