Dr Michael Daly MA MD PhD FRCP FACC is an academic and non-invasive cardiologist whose interests include multimodality cardiovascular imaging, electrocardiography, and the education of multidisciplinary teams and medical students. In 2022, he was named a€˜Most Innovative Teacher of the Yeara€™ at the Times Higher Education Awards in London, UK for his post-doctoral work that improved education and learning in clinical cardiology through whole-task hybrid simulation. Dr Daly holds an MA in Creative Writing focusing on drama, an MD in Medical Education and Simulation, and a PhD in Cardiology where he sought to improve the diagnostic accuracy of standard electrocardiography in patients with acute myocardial infarction. He is awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to Stanford University Medical School in California, USA to develop a Narrative-based Medicine educational programme using simulation. Dr Daly is a Fellow of both the Royal College of Physicians in London and the American College of Cardiology.