Job title: Consultant cardiologist
Background
Dr Ghada Mikhail is a consultant interventional cardiologist at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. She qualified from the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, and was awarded an MD from the University of London. She trained at the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust. She has gained international experience by spending a year in Italy, in a world renowned centre, on an…
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The International Society of Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy was created to support and promote ethical, evidence-based, cardiovascular pharmacotherapy worldwide. ISCP represents an ideal forum for open discussions on all issues related to cardiovascular pharmacotherapy and the society endeavours to foster collaboration among health professionals around the World. ISCP promotes education, research…
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Dr Popma graduated from the Indiana University School of Medicine in 1981. He works in Boston, MA, and specialises in cardiovascular disease. Dr. Popma is affiliated with Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital Milton and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center West Campus.
Clinical Interests
Interventional cardiology
Radial artery catheterisation
Complex coronary stent placement
Atherectomy
Left ventricular…
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Job title: Director of the Center for Preventive Cardiology
Personal History
Dr Shapiro lives in Winston-Salem with his wife and their two children. In his spare time, he enjoys travelling and hiking.
Academic History
Dr Shapiro completed medical school in 1998 at the UMDNJ School of Osteopathic Medicine. After completing a cardiology fellowship at the Beth Israel Medical Center, he spent two additional years in a clinical and research…
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Job title: Professor of Medicine & Clinical Trials, and Honorary Consultant Physician (Lipidology)
Dr Louise Bowman is Professor of Medicine and Clinical Trials at the Clinical Trial Service Unit of the University of Oxford. Her specialist clinical background is in Diabetes and Endocrinology.
Dr Bowman has particular research interests in cardiovascular disease in diabetes, and maintains her clinical practice with regular specialist lipid clinics. She is Chief Investigator for the ORION-4…
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Job title: Director of Preventive Cardiology & Co-Director of Research and Education
Personal History
Dr Danielle Belardo is a New Yorker who relocated to Philadelphia after college to start her medical career.1 She is now a Preventive Cardiologist based in Newport Beach, California.2
In college, she started volunteering at the Alzheimer’s Association and got involved with the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s program to raise funds for the pediatric oncology unit at DuPont…
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The aim of the Primary Care Cardiovascular Society (PCCS) is to provide activities which benefit the community of healthcare practitioners who deliver care to people with, or at risk of, cardiovascular disease. We support, educate and mentor healthcare practitioners to develop their knowledge and skills.
We offer a programme of educational events throughout the year as well as offering our…
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Author(s):
Martin B Leon
Added:
3 years ago
Since the first treatment of a patient with severe stenosis of the left anterior descending coronary artery using the percutaneous balloon angioplasty technique, pioneered by Andreas Gruentzig more than 25 years ago, the thriving subspeciality of lesser-invasive transcatheter therapeutics has become an important treatment alternative in patients with cardiovascular disease (CVD). Although balloon…
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Dr Thomas Kahan is Senior consultant in cardiolgy at the Department of cardiology, Danderyd University Hospital
Dr Kahan is on the Editorial Board of European Cardiology Review.
Research Interests
Neurohormonal control of blood pressure and cardiac function in man. Specifically, we study how the sympatho-adrenal mechanisms and the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system influence…
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