Job title: MD Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
Dr Hajjar is the Director of the Cardiovascular Research Center and the Arthur and Janet C Ross Professor of Medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. His research focuses on molecular mechanisms of heart failure (HF) and his team has validated the cardiac sarcoplasmic reticulum calcium ATPase pump (SERCA2a) as a target in HF, developed methodologies for cardiac-directed gene therapy,…
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Dr Richard Schatz is research director of cardiovascular interventions at the Scripps Heart, Lung, and Vascular Center and director of gene and stem cell therapy. A recognized international expert in interventional cardiology, he has published and lectured extensively. His seminal work in coronary stents spurred a revolution in the treatment of coronary artery disease – more than 2 million of…
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Job title: Professor of Medicine
Dr Robert Eckel is Professor of Medicine in the Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Colorado, US.Dr Eckel has held appointments such as the Charles A. Boettcher II Endowed Chair in atherosclerosis research at the University of Colorado, director of the Lipid Clinic at University of Colorado Hospital, and program director of the…
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Job title: Director, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine
Dr. Kusano is the Chief Director of Department of Cardiovascular Medicine and also the Director of Division of Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology at National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Osaka, Japan. He is also the affiliate professor of Okayama and Kumamoto University. His medical interest is cardiac clinical electrophysiology (devices, catheter ablation, inherited arrhythmias and cardiac…
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Job title: Interventional Cardiologist
Personal History
Dr Fizzah Choudry is a Consultant in Interventional Cardiology at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, UK.
Academic History
Dr Choudry holds a PhD in medicine. She trained as a doctor in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, UK.
Career Overview
In addition to Barts Heart Centre’s Department of Cardiology, she is affiliated with the Department of Hematology at…
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Job title: Clinical Senior Lecturer specialising in vascular surgery
Dr Ashish Patel is a Clinical Senior Lecturer specialising in vascular surgery at King’s College London and Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London.
Dr Patel was awarded a British Heart Foundation Clinical PhD Studentship and graduated with a PhD in in 2013, specialising in monocyte/macrophage biology in neovascularisation. He completed his Higher Surgical Training in General &…
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