Cardiology Speakers 2010

Professor Roger Hall
Roger Hall is Professor of Clinical Cardiology at the University of East Anglia and Consultant Cardiologist at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital. He was formerly Head of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery at the Hammersmith Hospital until 2003. He has been Editor in Chief of Heart for the past six years and has extensive experience both as a clinician, a clinical researcher, and journal editor.

Dr Iqbal Malik
Iqbal Malik is a consultant at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London. He trained at Peterhouse, Cambridge and then at Guy's and St Thomas’ Hospital, London. He was appointed as a consultant cardiologist at St Mary’s Hospital, London in 2001. He is National Clinical Lead for Web Transfer systems and commissioning editor on Heart. His research interests are in stroke prevention (patent foramen ovale closure and carotid stenting). In addition he has set up a cardiac catheter laboaratory practitioner course, and runs an annual stroke meeting at the Royal College of Physicians, London.

Dr Edward Rowland
Dr Rowland graduated from St Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical School, London and trained in Cardiology at The Royal Postgraduate Medical School and at the National Heart Hospital.  He worked at the National Heart and Lung Institute and the Royal Brompton National Heart Hospital and was appointed Consultant Cardiologist at St George’s Hospital in 1996.  He has just finished 6 years as Clinical Director of Cardiology at St George’s Hospital. He is President-Elect of HRUK and in January 2008 he moved to become Consultant Cardiologist at University College Hospital.  Dr Rowland has a particular interest in cardiac rhythm disorders, clinical cardiac electrophysiology, catheter ablation techniques and implantable devices for rhythm control.

Dr Theresa McDonagh
Dr Theresa McDonagh is a Consultant Cardiologist with an interest in heart failure at the Royal Brompton Hospital, London. Previously, she ran the assessment programme for the transplant service and the heart failure service at Glasgow Royal Infirmary. She is active in clinical practice and her research interests are based around the epidemiology of left ventricular dysfunction and the clinical utility of the natriuretic peptides in the diagnosis and prognosis of heart failure.

Dr Andrew Clark
Andrew Clark was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge and qualified in medicine at the Westminster Medical School. He trained in cardiology at Manchester Royal Infirmary, the National Heart and Lung Institute (London) and the Western Infirmary, Glasgow. While at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Professor Clark developed an interest in exercise physiology, particularly in patients with heart failure. The problem of why patients with heart failure breathe more than normal subjects is not understood, and Andrew Clark has published widely on ventilation in heart failure.

More recently, he has become interested in the problems of heart failure as a wasting disease and the possibility that obesity and high cholesterol may, paradoxically, be beneficial in heart failure.

Professor Clark is a founder member of the British Society for Heart Failure and a member of the working groups for heart failure and cardiac rehabilitation and exercise physiology in the European Society of Cardiology. He is professor and consultant cardiologist at Hull University and hospitals, where he is responsible for running the echocardiography service, and is active in the day-to-day provision of cardiology services to the population of the East Riding of Yorkshire.

Dr Nick Boon
Nicholas Antony Boon is a consultant cardiologist at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and honorary reader in cardiovascular medicine at Edinburgh University. Most of his clinical work is devoted to the management of acute coronary syndromes and interventional cardiology. Dr Boon engages in clinical research and has published more than 250 papers in peer reviewed journals on a wide range of topics, including HIV and the heart, valvular heart disease and the role of air pollution in coronary heart disease. He was the senior editor of Davidson's Principles and Practice of Medicine (20th edition published 2006) and is the immediate past president of the British Cardiovascular Society.

Professor Gregory YH Lip
Consultant Cardiologist and Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine; Director - Haemostasis Thrombosis & Vascular Biology Unit, University of Birmingham Centre for Cardiovascular Sciences, City Hospital, Birmingham