Paul Roberts was born and educated in Birmingham and qualified at the University of Leeds Medical School in 1990. Much of his training was in Leeds before he moved to the South Coast working at Poole and Bournemouth Hospitals. He started working in Southampton in 1996 and was appointed as Consultant in Cardiology and Electrophysiology in April 2002 at the Wessex Cardiac Unit, Southampton. He has a research and clinical expertise in most areas of cardiac electrophysiology. He spent two years in the United States at a number of cardiac units including the Cleveland Clinic. He was awarded his MD for clinical research in 2000 at the University of Leeds. He has an Honorary Senior Lecturer post at the University of Southampton.