Cardiology Speakers 2009

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 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.

Professor Keith Fox
Professor Keith Fox is Duke of Edinburgh and British Heart Foundation Professor of Cardiology at the University of Edinburgh, and Head of Medical and Radiological Sciences and Consultant Cardiologist in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.  Professor Fox was a founding fellow and is on the Board of the European Society of Cardiology.  In addition, he is President-Elect of the British Cardiovascular Society.  He is a member of the editorial boards of the journals Heart, Coronary Artery Disease, European Heart Journal, Cardiology in Practice, British Journal of Cardiology, Acute Coronary Syndromes, as well as for the website Theheart.org.  His current areas of research include the inhibition of coronary thrombosis and the role of platelets and inflammation in acute coronary syndromes.

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 Bernard Prendergast
Dr Prendergast is a Consultant Cardiologist at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, where he is the clinical lead for TAVI and director of the research programme.  He qualified at the University of Nottingham Medical School and trained in cardiology in Cardiff, Paris, Edinburgh and Manchester.  He is the Honorary Secretary of the British Cardiovascular Intervention Society and has specialist interests in percutaneous cardiovascular intervention, infective encocarditis and valve disease.