Member of British Cardiovascular Society

Fellow of The European Society of Cardiology

Heart Failure Lead

Hospital Care of patients with general Cardiology conditions

Specialist interest:

Cardiovascular Medicine: hypertension, heart failure, prevention

Cardiovascular Medicine in the older patient

Heart Failure:                       

Lead in Omada National Heart failure clinic programme 1999 - 2002

Lead Educational development for heart failure nurses (BSH)

Established local heart failure nurse network

Tertiary heart failure clinic: Royal Brompton Hospital, London (1999-2003)

Established weekly Heart failure clinic 1999

Established weekly Rapid Access Heart Function Clinic 2004

British Heart Foundation Community nurse project 2004

BHF/NOF research into acute heart failure 2004

Local research projects

Consensus guidelines panel

International Research studies

Publications

Lectures

Scientific experience:  

Medical Doctorate 1994:

The electromechanical properties of

hypertrophied human myocardium.

Electrophysiological laboratory based study of

contractile and conductive properties in

preparations of human myocardium

Clinical Research:      

Director of Caradiovascular Research      

Local:

HEAR study. Local research in older pateints

with heart failure

SUSSEX HF study. Major local epidemiologiccal

study

National:

Hillingdon-Hastings Incident Heart Failure study

Sleep disordered breathing

International:

Principle Investigator