What’s happening in heart failure?

This in person seminar is open to members of the University.  It can also be accessed on Teams.

Speaker: Professor John McMurray, Professor of Cardiology School of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Health, University of Glasgow.

Professor McMurray is currently Professor of Medical Cardiology and honorary Consultant Cardiologist at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow.

He served as the inaugural Eugene Braunwald Scholar in Cardiovascular Disease at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, and visiting Professor of Medicine, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts USA 2010/2011. He is a Past-President of the Heart Failure Association of the ESC.

He is a member of NICE Appraisal Committee A and a member of the editorial board of the New England Journal of Medicine and sit on the editorial board of several leading cardiovascular journals, including the European Heart Journal (Associate Editor) and Circulation.

Prof McMurray’s primary research interests are in heart failure and the cardiovascular consequences of diabetes and chronic kidney disease, with a focus on clinical trials. He is, or was, the principal investigator, member of the executive committee or steering committee member for several large trials in his areas of interest including the completed CHARM-Added, CORONA, I-Preserve, EMPHASIS-HF, PARADIGM-HF, ATMOSPHERE, Harmony-Outcomes, PARAGON-HF, GALACTIC-HF, DAPA-HF, DAPA-CKD, ASCEND-D and -ND trials, DELIVER, the ongoing FINEARTS-HF trial and the recently announced FINALITY trial.

There will be tea/coffee and cakes available for seminar attendees in Atrium 1, 30 min prior to the seminar.