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Neil PoulterNeil Poulter

Professor of Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine

Imperial College London


Professor Neil Poulter qualified at St Mary’s Hospital, London in 1974. From 1980 to 1985, he co-ordinated a hypertension research programme at the Wellcome Trust Research Laboratories, Kenya, then gained an MSc (Epidemiology) at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 1986. In 1997, he was appointed Professor of Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine at Imperial College London, where he is currently Co-Director of the ICCH and of the Imperial Clinical Trials Unit. He is an honorary consultant physician and epidemiologist at the Peart-Rose (Hypertension and CVD Prevention) Clinic at the Hammersmith Hospital, London. He was Co-PI of the WHO Oral Contraceptive Case-Control Study at University College London, and played a senior role in several trials including ASCOT and ADVANCE.

He was President of the British Hypertension Society (2003-2005) and is currently President-Elect of the International Society of Hypertension;  Member of the World Heart Federation, Scientific Policy and Advocacy Committee;  and Chair of the Council, International Society of Cardiovascular Disease, Epidemiology and Prevention.

In 2008, he was elected as one of the inaugural Senior Investigators of NIHR UK, and in 2009, as a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. Professor Poulter has contributed chapters to several major textbooks and published over 385 papers in peer-reviewed medical journals. He is among the top 1% most cited academics in clinical medicine (Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher 2014 report).

Neil Poulter

Professor of Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine

Imperial College London

 

 

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Will the next pandemic be caused by H5N1 influenza?

Monday, 02 June 2025, 1pm to 2pm @ Richard Doll Lecture Theatre

The world is currently experiencing a panzootic of H5N1 influenza. Wild birds have carried the virus across all continents and an unprecedented number of mammalian species have been infected including humans. What will it take for this virus to go pandemic, and does the introduction of the virus into dairy herds in USA bring that one step closer? Wendy will discuss the current knowledge on host range barriers that protect us from more frequent zoonoses and pandemic from bird flu, and show how we can use this scientific knowledge to risk assess the current situation.

Better treatment for tuberculosis

Monday, 09 June 2025, 1pm to 2pm @ BDI/OxPop Building LG seminar rooms

Resolving the genetic basis of type 2 diabetes in 125 000 Mexicans

Tuesday, 10 June 2025, 1pm to 2pm @ Richard Doll Lecture Theatre

The burden of drug resistant infections, the GRAM project

Monday, 16 June 2025, 1pm to 2pm @ BDI/OxPop Building LG seminar rooms