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BSH BOARD
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The current Board members are listed below.
Chair:
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Dr Suzanna Hardman |
Cardiologist, Whittington Hospital, London |
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Past Chair:
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Professor Theresa McDonagh |
Consultant Cardiologist, King's College Hospital, London
Dr Theresa McDonagh is a Consultant Cardiologist with an interest in heart failure. Clinically, she has a long track record in heart failure. In addition to having a hands-on input in clinical heart failure, she has an active research profile in the epidemiology of left ventricular dysfunction and in the clinical utility of the natriuretic peptides in both the diagnosis and prognosis of heart failure.
Dr McDonagh has been on the board of the British Society for Heart Failure (BSH) for the past 6 years in various capacities. She has taken a particular interest in developing clinical standards for heart failure and, through the Specialty Advisory Committee in Cardiology, has been involved with developing the heart failure curriculum for sub-specialty cardiology registrar training. In addition, she has been part of the group moving the BSH Heart Failure Audit forward. |
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Chair-Elect:
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Professor Andrew Clark |
Cardiologist, University of Hull, Kingston upon Hull
Professor Andrew Clark was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and trained in medicine at the Westminster Medical School, London. He trained in cardiology at Manchester Royal Infirmary, the National Heart and Lung Institute in London, and the Western Infirmary in 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. More recently, he has become interested in the problems of heart failure as a wasting disease, and the possibility that obesity and high cholesterol may, paradoxically, be beneficial in heart failure.
He became a Senior Lecturer in cardiology at the University of Hull in 1999 and was promoted to Reader in 2004. He is responsible for running the echocardiography service in Hull, and plays an active role in the day-to-day provision of cardiology services to the population of Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire. He became a professor in 2009.
He is a founder member of the BSH, and a member of the Working Groups for Heart Failure and Cardiac Rehabilitation and Exercise Physiology in the European Society of Cardiology. |
Deputy Chair:
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Professor Iain Squire
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Senior Lecturer/Consultant, Leicester Royal Infirmary
Professor Iain Squire qualified from Glasgow University in 1987. He trained first at Glasgow, where he held the position of Lecturer, and then at the University of Leicester, where he was initially Lecturer then Senior Lecturer in Medicine & Therapeutics. He was awarded a personal Chair in April 2009, and is also Honorary Consultant Physician at the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust.
Professor Squire has responsibility for the 19 bed coronary care unit at Glenfield Hospital Leicester and is one of two consultants running the out-patient heart failure service there. He also has responsibility for the Leicestershire Heart Failure Service. He is a member of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence Technology Appraisals Committee.
Professor Squire was a Councillor to the BSH from 2001 to 2003, and is currently Treasurer of the Society. He is UK coordinator for the joint European Society of Cardiology/European Heart Rhythm Association CRT Registry, a position he has held since 2007. His research interests include: natriuretic peptides and other cardiac neuropeptides; the epidemiology of heart failure; prognostic markers in heart failure and acute coronary syndromes; and acute coronary syndromes. Professor Squire has authored over 120 papers in peer-reviewed journals. |
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Treasurer:
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Dr Paul Kalra |
Cardiologist, Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth
Dr Paul Kalra is a Consultant Cardiologist at Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust, with sub-specialty interest in the management of patients with heart failure. Dr Kalra maintains an active interest in medical education and research, and has >65 peer-reviewed publications. He is a co-organiser of a successful annual national Cardio-Renal Conference. He has edited a cardiology text book Specialist Training in Cardiology. |
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Councillor:
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Dr John Baxter |
Care of the Elderly - Sunderland
Dr John Baxter is a Consultant Geriatrician and clinical lead for heart failure at Sunderland Royal Hospital. He is treasurer of the British Geriatrics Society Cardiovascular Section and a member of the National Council for Palliative Care Heart Failure Steering Group. |
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Dr Jim Moore |
GPs with a Special Interest in Heart Failure - Cheltenham
Jim Moore studied medicine as an undergraduate in Edinburgh before moving to Gloucestershire to work as a GP principal. Throughout his medical career he has maintained an interest in cardiology and cardiovascular disease, particularly those aspects that are relevant to primary care. He was closely involved in the development of the primary care-based Gloucestershire Heart Failure service, where he continues to work as a GPwSI. He represents primary care in the cardiovascular arena, both at local and regional level, and chairs the Gloucestershire CHD network. |
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Councillor:
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Dr Simon Williams |
Consultant Cardiologist, Wythenshawe Hospital, South Manchester
Dr Williams is the clinical lead for heart failure at the Wythenshawe Hospital. He specialises in cardiac transplant and ventricular assist device assessment, and also in pacing therapy for heart failure. Dr Williams is also an honorary senior lecturer at the University of Manchester, where his research group is currently studying the immune system in heart failure and following cardiac transplantation. |
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OBSERVERS TO THE BSH BOARD
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Observers are elected to represent disciplines in heart failure that are not represented on the Board.
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Dr Alison Duncan
 Dr. Alison Duncan qualified from St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, in 1995. After general medical training, she joined the Royal Brompton Hospital in 1997, where she completed general cardiology training. In 1999, she undertook a doctorate jointly between The Royal Brompton and Imperial College, London. Her PhD, entitled ‘Stress Echocardiography in Heart Failure’ studied cardiac physiology at rest and during stress in patients with heart failure. She has published over 30 original papers, presented over 45 abstracts at National and International level, and has contributed to book chapters for National and Internal International Publishers. She has over 10 years experience in transthoracic, transoesophageal, and stress echocardiography, and is fully accredited in TTE and TOE with the British and European Societies of Echocardiography. She was Clinical Tutor for the MSc in Cardiology at Imperial College from 2004-2006, was clinical lead for the Department of Echocardiography at the Royal Brompton Hospital between 2006 and 2010, and is currently Lead for Education for the British Society of Echo and UK-Resuscitation Council approved FEEL-UK© courses (Focused Echocardiography in Emergency Life Support). She continues to actively collaborate with ongoing research, both in heart failure (studying the effects of CRT in the peri-operative period and on ventricular remodelling), and most recently with surgical colleagues (in the transcatheter valve programmes including TAVI and MitraClip).
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London |
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Dr Roy Gardner |
Clydebank |
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Dr Dominic Kelly
Dominic Kelly is a trainee cardiologist in the Wessex Deanery with an interest in heart failure and devices. He qualified with honours from Liverpool medical school in 2000 and also holds a first class honours degree in pharmacology. He has previously undertaken BHF funded research into the effects of matrix metalloproteinases on LV remodelling and prognosis post MI at the University of Leicester and was awarded his MD in 2008. He is currently based at Southampton University Hospital in his final year of training. |
Southampton |
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Mrs Annie MacCallum
 Annie is Head of Heart and Diabetes Services at NHS Gloucestershire Care Services.
She gained her cardiology experience in Edinburgh, Bristol and Gloucester and has 10 years of coronary heart disease practice nurse experience in primary care. The experience gained in the acute hospital management of heart failure and her primary care experiences helped to inform her understanding of the unmet needs of heart failure patients.
As a Heart Failure Specialist Nurse in Gloucester, Annie assisted in the development of a county-wide Heart Failure Service for Gloucestershire. Launched in January 2004 and following a successful bid to the British Heart Foundation, the Service now offers community echo, GPSI clinics and eight Heart Failure Specialist Nurses based in primary care, but with close liaison with acute hospitals and cardiologists. The service introduced Telehealth in December 2008 and now incorporates a further 60 patients into the team caseload using this technology.
Annie was elected to the Board of the British Society for Heart Failure and joined the Heart Failure Policy Group for the National Council for Palliative Care in 2009 |
Gloucester |
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Mrs Jayne Masters
 Lead Heart Failure Nurse Specialist Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust.
Jayne qualified from the University Hospital of Wales in 1986 and went on to gain experience in several areas including renal nursing and palliative care before specialising in heart failure.
Jayne worked as a BHF Community Heart Failure Nurse in the New Forest gaining invaluable insight into primary care. In 2008 Jayne went back into secondary care to develop and lead a new inpatient heart failure service. The service which sees heart failure patients in all areas of the hospital has been successful in improving patient outcomes by increasing access to specialist advice. The team work closely with their colleagues in primary care and together provide an integrated service. The service also provides a rapid access heart failure clinic and patient advice line.
Jayne is also the nursing lead for ultra filtration and is currently finishing her MSc in Cardiology at Brighton University. |
Southampton |
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Dr Nigel Rowell
 From a background in echocardiography that stretches back to 1985 I have been involved with the assessment of heart function and it was only a small step to them assisting the setting up of local heart failure clinic in 2003. This then developed into a community screening service in 2008 based on the use of BNP in primary care as a decision-making tool for referral.
I have been involved with commissioning since 1995 and have just stepped down as Chair of Middlesbrough Practice Based Commissioning Group after three years at the helm. I'm currently still active with commissioning and was appointed last year as an advisor to NHS Improvement for heart failure in primary care.
I continue to teach students whenever I can and take a very active role in education locally, regionally and nationally and the auspices of the primary care cardiovascular society.
My passions outside medicine are ski touring and scuba-diving and I only have about 100 Munros left to climb before they are all completed.
I live in north Yorkshire with three grown-up children, a wife and two Labradors and one aging brown hen that thinks it's a dog. |
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