Transcript The European Examination in General Cardiology

Professor Henry J Dargie
MB ChB, FRCP, FESC, FRSE
Lifetime Achievement Award
Inaugural Phillip Poole-Wilson Lecture
Agora: Sunday 2th May 14:15. Young
Investigator Session
Consultant Cardiologist at the
Western Infirmary,
Glasgow, Director of the
National Advanced Heart
Failure Service, Glasgow
(1980-2010)
Research Achievements
• Metolozone in renal failure and
heart failure
• Total Body Potassium in heart and
renal failure
• Early work on role of SNS in
hypertension
• Early RCT work on role of captopril
in HF
• LVH and ventricular arrhythmias
• Epidemiology of LV dysfunction
(MRC and BHF Programme Grant
holder for 10 years)
• Role of BNP in detection of LV
dysfunction, mortality prediction
• MRI and cardiac remodelling
Landmark Clinical Trials
• CIBIS II
• CAPRICORN
• IONA
Numerous Other Trials
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TIBET
Perindopril and LV
remodelling
MOXCON
National and International Committees
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Working Group for Heart Failure (ESC) now HFA
Chair of WG for Exercise and Prevention (ESC)
President Scottish Cardiac Society
Chair of British Society for Heart Failure
Chair of British Society of CMR
BCS Guidelines Committee
• MHRA and CHM-years of service.
• Stokes Lecture (ICS)
• Fitzgerald Peel Lecture (SSP)
• Inaugural Philip Poole-Wilson Memorial Lecture (BSH)
British Society of Heart Failure Chair
• National Data Base Project
• UK National Clinical Audit
• Pioneered the concept of HF
units
Academic Metrics
• NHS Consultant
• PCI until 5 years
before retiral !
• 339 papers in
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• >20,000 citations
• H-index 62
Research Fellows
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John Cleland
Ian Findlay
Jim McLenachan
Howard McAlpine
John McMurray
Simon Ray
David Northridge
Theresa McDonagh
Andrew Clark
John Byrne
Stephen Robb
David Murdoch
Nicola Johnston
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Tom Martin
Aengus Murphy
Patrick Mark*
Stuart Watkins *
Robin Weir
Sai Bahgra
Andrew Hannah
Alan Harkness
Adrian Morley Davies *
Miles Fisher *
Spiros Polymeros
Bjoern Groening
Colin Petrie
*with others
Summary
• Ambassador for Glasgow
Cardiology
• Huge impact on British
Heart Failure Cardiology
• Enormous contribution to
European Heart Failure
• International “superstar”
in Heart Failure Research
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