New Registration14/10/2009Pri-Med Clinical Insight - Best Practice in Cardiology
 | Professor John Camm - BSc, MD, FRCP |
| Professor and Head of the Department of Cardiac & Vascular Sciences, St George's Hospital Medical School, University of London | |
| Professor John Camm is Head of the Department of Cardiac & Vascular Sciences at St George's, University of London, the only independent medical school in the UK. Prof. Camm's research interest is in clinical cardiac electrophysiology, cardiac arrhythmias and implantable devices for rhythm control. He is currently a Councillor of the Royal College of Physicians and the British Cardiac Society. | |
Dr Neil Chapman | |
| Consultant Physician, St Mary’s Hospital and Honorary Senior Lecturer, Imperial College London | |
 | Professor Martin Cowie - MD |
| Professor of Cardiology, Imperial College London and Consultant Cardiologist, Royal Brompton Hospital, London | |
| Martin Cowie is Professor of Cardiology (Health Services Research) and is a Consultant Cardiologist at the Royal Brompton Hospital. After qualifying from the University of Aberdeen in 1989, Professor Cowie trained in London in cardiology and epidemiology, undertaking a MSc in Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. His MD related to work on the epidemiology of heart failure in the UK. After a brief period back in Scotland, he returned to Imperial College in 2001, taking up the Chair of Cardiology (Health Services Research) at the National Heart & Lung Institute, with his clinical practice based at the Royal Brompton Hospital in Chelsea. In 2006/7 he was the Director of Research & Academic Affairs at the Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Trust. He has worked as an advisor to the Department of Health, the National Institute for Clinical Excellence, the Department of Work & Pensions, and the Health Care Commission. Currently Chair of the British Society for Heart Failure, and Chairman of the Education Committee of the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology, his major clinical and research interests are in the delivery of efficient and effective care for patients with heart failure and those at risk of this debilitating condition. Professor Cowie lectures widely in the UK and Europe on cardiovascular disease, and organises many multiprofessional educational events. He advises industry in the development and marketing of innovative products that can help improve the life-expectancy and quality of life of people with heart failure. As well as writing chapters for medical textbooks, including sections on heart failure for the Oxford Textbook of Medicine, Professor Cowie has published widely in cardiovascular medical journals. He is also frequently interviewed in the national media regarding heart issues, and particularly enjoys talking to the public about heart matters, working alongside the Wellcome Collection and other educational bodies. | |
 | Professor Mark Kearney - MBChB, MRCP, DM |
| Professor of Cardiology, Division of Cardiovascular and Diabetes Research, Leeds | |
| Professor Kearney is Professor of Cardiology at Leeds University Medical school, Univesity Leeds since 2006. His research fields focus on mechanisms of reduced nitric oxide bioavailability in insulin resistance and related metabolic disorders and prognosis in chronic heart failure. Professor Kearney has receieved previous funding for on going research projects as well as having had published countless research papers, selected reviews and letters. Professor Kearney is currently a member of the British Heart Foundation Project Grant Committee I (2006 – 2010). | |
Dr Jim McLenachan - MD | |
| Clinical Director of Cardiology, Leeds General Infirmary | |
| Dr James McLenachan is an expert Cardiology consultant at Spire Leeds Hospital | |
 | Dr Catherine Nelson-Piercy - MA FRCP MB BSc |
| Consultant Obstetric Physician, Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals Foundation Trust and Queen Charlotte’s Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare Trust | |
| Catherine Nelson-Piercy is a Consultant Obstetric Physician at Guy’s and St. Thomas’ Hospitals Trust and Queen Charlotte’s Hospital in London. Her undergraduate studies were at King’s College, Cambridge University and St Bartholomew’s Hospital. She trained as a physician, and was taught Obstetric Medicine by Professor Michael de Swiet. She specialises in the care of women with medical problems in pregnancy. Dr Nelson-Piercy runs special joint clinics for women with renal disease, cardiac, and rheumatic disorders in pregnancy. She offers pre-pregnancy counselling for women with pre-existing medical problems and those with problems in previous pregnancies. Dr Nelson-Piercy has been involved in the development of several evidence-based National Guidelines notably for “Contraception in Women with Heart Disease”, BTS / SIGN “Asthma in Pregnancy” and RCOG Green top guideline on “Reducing the risk of thromboembolism during pregnancy, birth & the puerperium”. She has over 170 publications and has edited four books and written the successful Handbook of Obstetric Medicine, now in its third edition. She is also one of the central assessors for maternal deaths and chapter author for Heart Disease in ‘Saving Mothers Lives’, CEMACH (Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Child Health) 2000-02 and 2003-5. Dr Nelson-Piercy is the vice president and UK representative of the International Society of Obstetric Medicine (ISOM), sits on the Education Committee of the British Maternal and Fetal Medicine Society (BMFMS) and was the first Flexible Working Officer for the Royal College of Physicians of London, with responsibility for flexible / part-time training and working. She is editor in chief of a new journal ‘Obstetric Medicine: the medicine of pregnancy.’ Dr Nelson-Piercy was awarded the FRCOG ad eundum in 2007 and is the youngest ever recipient of this honour. | |
Dr Charles Peebles - MBBS, MRCP, FRCR | |
| Consultant Cardiac Radiologist, Wessex Cardiothoracic Centre, Southampton General Hospital | |
| Dr Charles Peebles trained in the Wessex radiology training scheme and subsequently did 2 years of specialist cardiac and thoracic imaging fellowships, the first in Papworth Hospital and the second at Green Lane Hospital, Auckland NZ. He has worked for Southampton University Hospitals Trust since May 2002. As well as covering all aspects of Cardiac and thoracic radiology his subspecialty interest is in Cardiac MRI and CT. Southampton currently provides one of the largest and most comprehensive CMR services in the UK. | |
 | Dr Robert Sapsford - BSc, MBBS, MD, FRCP |
| Consultant Cardiologist, St James’ University Hospital, Leeds | |
| Dr Robert Sapsford has been a consultant cardiologist at St James's University Hospital, Leeds since 2001. He has been involved in a range of cardiology clinical studies including the impact of poorly controlled BP on deferment of elective surgery and the incidence of pulmonary hypertension in PNH patients. Dr Sapsford is widely published in cardiology including articles on Diabetes and the Heart, Secondary Prevention of MI and Appraisal of Local Guidelines for the Management of Acute MI. | |
 | Dr Richard John Schilling - MB BS |
| Consultant Cardiologist , St. Bartholomew's Hospital and London Hospital, London | |
| I have been the lead of the academic department of cardiac electrophysiology since my appointment at St Bartholomew’s and Queen Mary University of London. On my arrival at St Barts academic activity had been dormant for some years. The department has concentrated on clinical research and has been successful in gaining funding from both peer reviewed grants and industry allowing us to grow steadily over the last 5 years. We now have 2 offices which house 3 research fellows, 2 nurses and a research administrator. In addition we have acquired the following clinical research equipment: Electroanatomical 3-D cardiac mapping system, non-contact mapping research analysis station, ECG machine, 3 Holters (7-day), VO2 max measurement equipment. My research interests focus on elucidating the mechanism of complex cardiac arrhythmia in the human heart and the development of percutaneous treatments for them. All of my research has been performed in vivo on the intact human heart. Clinical conditions we have investigated include ventricular tachycardia and fibrillation in structural heart disease, congenital heart disease, atrial fibrillation and cardiac disynchrony in heart failure. | |
 | Professor Sanjay Sharma - BSc (hons), FRCP, MD |
| Professor of Inherited Cardiovascular Disease and Sports Cardiology, St George’s Hospital Medical School, London | |
| Professor Sharma has an active interest in medical education and is a Fellow of the Royal College Of Physicians. He has 15 years experience in teaching for the MRCP exam. He has published several education books in medicine and cardiology including the Self Assessment Colour Review of Cardiology and Rapid Review of Clinical Medicine for the MRCP part 2. Professor Sharma has an excellent reputation as a lecturer and lectures in medicine at national level for Medibyte Intensive Courses and at international level for the Royal College of Physicians (2006 Bangkok, 2007 Kerela). Professor Sharma qualified in the UK in 1989 and took up the post of Consultant Cardiologist and General Physician at University Hospital Lewisham in 2001. He was subsequently appointed as Director of Heart Muscle Diseases at Kings College Hospital London in 2007 and in 2009 was promoted to Professor of Clinical Cardiology at St George’s University Hospital in Tooting, London. He is Medical Director for The Virgin London Marathon, Cardiologist for CRY (Cardiac Risk in the Young), English Institute of Sport, British Rugby League and the Lawn Tennis Association. Professor Sharma’s interests include cardiovascular adaptation in athletes, sudden cardiac death in the young and heart muscle diseases for which he has an international reputation and has published numerous original articles in highly rated peer reviewed journals. He is an expert committee member of the National Service Framework chapter entitled Sudden Death and Arrhythmias, and is the cardiology representative on the RCP Sports and Exercise Medicine Committee. | |
Dr Jay Wright - MBCHB, MD distinctions | |
| Consultant Cardiologist, The Cardiothoracic Centre, Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital | |