Dr. Jonathan Pitts Crick qualified in medicine and surgery at King’s College, London and King’s College Hospital Medical School.
After 2 years working in acute medicine he returned to university to study biomedical engineering, gaining a PhD for research in the emerging field of digital signal processing – which is the basis of almost all cardiac investigations. He then trained in cardiology at Guy’s Hospital and the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital, London, where he was fortunate in working under inspiring world-leaders in research and clinical cardiology – at a time of rapid progress in the treatment of heart disease.
He was appointed to the post of Consultant cardiologist at the Bristol Royal Infirmary, later the Bristol Heart Institute, as well as Lecturer in medicine at Bristol University where he was able to continue his work in the development of new techniques as well as gaining a wealth of clinical experience helping patients with a wide range of heart conditions.
Dr. Pitts Crick has always been enthusiastic about finding new ways to approach medical problems and treat them. In his early years as a doctor he had a strong interest in technology: while undertaking research in biomedical engineering at Sussex University he was involved in the development of the first implantable cardiac defibrillator, and later took part in the first UK implant in 1981. He moved on to working in, and developing the minimally invasive or “key-hole surgery” techniques which revolutionised cardiac treatments in the 1980s and 90s, assisting in the first coronary angioplasty in the UK and being the first in the world to use artificial blood to maintain heart function during angioplasty procedures. He pioneering balloon valvuloplasty for aortic stenosis in the 1980s, and in 1990 he introduced radiofrequency catheter ablation to the UK, which has now become the standard treatment for cardiac arrhythmias. He worked with pacemaker companies to design artificial intelligence-based pacemaker programmers and self-adjusting pacemakers and has three international patents in his name. 
Over the last 15 years he has increasingly come to recognise that heart disease cannot be considered in isolation but involves the whole body and mind. This has  lead to a holistic approach to understanding and diagnosing conditions and finding ways to encourage natural adaptation and healing. He has developed a new “feedback” model for the mechanism of chronic illness and discovered a non-drug treatment which is dramatically effective in treating all causes of breathlessness. 

Dr. Pitts Crick has been an enthusiastic teacher of a generation of medical students and trainee doctors and he is currently the president of the Bristol Medico-Surgical Society, organising a series of lectures on “Medicine Outside the Box”. He wants to pass on the insights he has gathered over his long career in cardiology to a wider range of patients than he can possibly treat personally – so he has devised this programme to help people with heart conditions to have a full understanding of them and be empowered to take an active part in their treatment. He considers this to be an absolutely vital part of the healing process.