Peter Cashman comes from a medical family but took a BSc degree in Electrical Engineering Science at the University of Warwick in 1970. He worked as a biomedical engineer with the Medical Research Council, first in London, then at the Clinical Research Centre, Harrow, in 1979 gaining a PhD in Bioengineering from London University for studies on cardiovascular ambulatory monitoring of hypertensive patients. During this time he also worked on developing instrumentation systems which became commercial products, notably the Oxford MEDILOG ambulatory recorder and the Oakfield CARDIOSCINT nuclear cardiac function monitor. After the closure of CRC in 1991 he moved to Imperial College and the Bagrit Centre. From 1999-2008 he was Co-ordinator of  the Department's MSc course, and also taught aspects of the Medical School's BSc course. His research at Imperial has centred on applications of MRI and automated methods for image processing in orthopaedics and rheumatology, with interest and activity maintained in physiological monitoring and biodynamics. In association with clinical colleagues, he has co-authored over 60 papers and reports.

Dr Cashman is now semi-retired and is not accepting additional research students at this time.