Dr Niall Keenan
Dr Niall Keenan is a consultant cardiologist at West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust and Hon Lecturer at Imperial College. He specialises in cardiac imaging including cardiac MRI, CT and advanced echo and has published in these areas. He is lead for cardiology education in his trust.
Dr Rasha Al-Lamee
Dr Rasha Al-Lamee is an interventional cardiology consultant at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and a clinical senior lecturer at the National Heart and Lung Institute within Imperial College London. She is a clinical trialist with expertise in stable coronary artery disease, coronary intervention, invasive physiology and invasive intravascular imaging. Dr Al-Lamee leads a research group with a focus on clinical trials that impact the care of patients with cardiovascular disease. She believes in rigorous testing of clinical practice and the use of evidence-based medicine in all aspects of medical care. She designed, conducted and led ORBITA, the first randomised placebo-controlled trial of coronary angioplasty. ORBITA is one of the most widely cited clinical trials in cardiology of the decade. She is lead author of the primary publication in The Lancet and the two secondary analyses both published in Circulation. She is the NIHR CRN North West London Cardiovascular speciality lead and is actively involved in the development and recruitment for a number of multi-centre international clinical trials.
Dr Marianna Fontana
Dr Marianna Fontana is the director of the UCL CMR unit at the Royal Free Hospital. She is professor of cardiology and honorary consultant cardiologist at the National Amyloidosis Centre, University College London. She is also deputy head of Centre for Amyloidosis and Acute Phase Proteins and deputy clinical lead of the National Amyloidosis Centre. Dr Fontana obtained her medical degree (MD) and qualifications as a cardiologist at the University of Pisa. She undertook a PhD at UCL which focused on CMR in cardiac amyloidosis. She was awarded with an intermediate fellowship from the British Heart Foundation in 2018. She has co-authored 121 peer reviewed publications with >7000 citations (h-index 44).
Professor Andrew Clark
Professor Clark was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and trained in medicine at the Westminster Medical School. He trained in cardiology at Manchester Royal Infirmary, the National Heart and Lung Institute (London) and the Western Infirmary, Glasgow. Whilst at the National Heart and Lung Institute, under the guidance of Philip Poole-Wilson and Andrew Coats, he developed an interest in exercise physiology, particularly in patients with heart failure. He became a professor in 2009. He is responsible for running the heart failure service in Hull, and he plays an active role in the day-to-day provision of cardiology services to the population of Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire. Professor Clark is an international recognised expert in heart failure. He has published over 400 papers, principally in the field of heart failure, but including papers on primary care and even contraception. He is past chair of the British Society for Heart Failure, and is past chair of the Heart Failure Alliance, which has led on advising the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Heart Failure in its production of its report on heart failure. He chairs steering committees for multicentre clinical trials, is on the National Audit for Heart Failure steering group and is on the editorial boards of several national and international medical journals.
Session 1: Cardiology
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Dr Niall Keenan
Consultant cardiologist, West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust
Dr Rasha Al-Lamee
Interventional cardiology consultant, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and clinical senior lecturer, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London
Dr Marianna Fontana
Professor of cardiology and honorary consultant in cardiology, University College London
Professor Andrew Clark
Chair of clinical cardiology and honorary consultant cardiologist, Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
