John Douglas Swales FRCP FMedSci (1935–2000) was an English cardiologist, professor of medicine, medical journal editor, and internationally recognised expert on hypertension.
He then studied medicine at the Westminster Hospital Medical School and in 1961 graduated MB BChir from the University of Cambridge.
From 1970 to 1974 he was a senior lecturer at the medical school of the University of Manchester, where he was mentored by Sir Douglas Black.
Swales qualified in 1964 MRCP and graduated in 1971 with the higher MD degree from the University of Cambridge.
[3] In 1974, he was invited to become the Foundation Professor and Chairman of Medicine at the new medical school at the University of Leicester.