Cardiology Speakers 2008

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 Iain Simpson
Dr Iain Simpson is a Consultant Interventional Cardiologist at the Wessex Regional Cardiac Unit, Southampton University Hospitals Trust. He qualified from the University of Glasgow in 1980 and trained in Cardiology at Glasgow Royal Infirmary. He was Senior Registrar in Cardiology at St. Georges Hospital and the Royal Brompton Hospital prior to his appointment in Southampton in 1992. He was a British-American Research Fellow with the British Heart Foundation and the American Heart Association at the University of California, San Diego, has previously been a member of the Council of the British Cardiovascular Society and a former Commissioning Editor of Heart. He is currently the Vice President for Education & Research Elect for the British Cardiovascular Society.

Dr Chris Baker
Dr Chris Baker is Consultant Cardiologist at the Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust, London, with a special interest in interventional cardiology. He qualified in 1990 and subsequently trained at the London Chest Hospital and St Bartholomew's Hospital, London. His degree was obtained at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital, London and Imperial College London, and he was awarded his PhD in 2000.

Dr Wyn Davies
Dr Wyn Davies qualified from Westminster Medical School in 1976. His postgraduate cardiological training took place at St. Stephen’s, the London Chest, Guy’s and St. Bartholomew’s Hospitals in London. His MD thesis (on ST segment monitoring) was awarded in 1987. He has been interested in the management of cardiac arrhythmias from an early stage in his career.  He was appointed Consultant Cardiologist at St. Mary’s Hospital, London in 1991 where he established its department of cardiac electrophysiology and where he introduced non-contact mapping of cardiac arrhythmias into clinical practice in man. He was awarded the Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians in 1994 and the Fellowship of the Heart Rhythm Society in 2006.   His current research interests are mechanisms of clinical arrhythmogenesis, mapping and ablation of cardiac arrhythmias, new energy sources for catheter ablation and automatic arrhythmia recognition.

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.