Research
Recent grants/funding applications
2024-2027 (3 years) Telehealth to reduce compound pressures on the NHS and Social Care. NIRH RfPB, £499,999 [PI]
2023-2028 (5 years) Liverpool: Mental Health Research for Innovation Centre (M-RIC) NIHR/OLS £10,477,054 [Co-I]
2022-2024 (3 years) DynAIRx: AIs for dynamic prescribing optimisation and care integration in multimorbidity. NIHR-AIM NIHR203986). £2,807,430 [Co-I]
2022-2025 (4 years) LJMU Thematic Doctoral Training Programme with MITH. £431,616 [Co-I]
2014-2018 (4 years) ‘IMPRESS-AF: IMproved exercise tolerance in heart failure with PReserved Ejection fraction by Spironolactone on myocardial fibrosiS in Atrial Fibrillation’ NIHR-EME Programme. £779,083 [Co-PI]
Cardiovascular disease, hypertension, general practice
Selected recent talks:
29/11/2024 OSA and AF: what do we know and what should we do?. British Thoracic Society Winter Meeting. London, UK
25/04/2024 ‘My smart watch showed AF’: Who and how to evaluate. EuroPrevent 2024. European Association of Preventive Cardiology Congress. Athens, Greece.
01/12/2023 Chronic Heart Kidney Disorder Trials Implementation Issues, General physician viewpoint. Cardiovascular Clinical Trialist Forum. Washington, DC
19/09/2023 Effect of diastolic function on exercise tolerance in atrial fibrillation: Community IMPRESS-AF RCT. British Irish Hypertension Society Annual Meeting. Aberdeen, UK
05/07/2023 ‘Why ethnic representation matters: hypertension/stroke trials’ (invited). European Society of Cardiology Plenary Meeting on “The Future of Clinical Trials: Towards Diversity)’. Vienna, Austria.
2019 Late Breaking Science in Heart Failure Session, European Society of Cardiology Congress, Paris. ‘Spironolactone in atrial fibrillation with preserved cardiac contractility’
Awards:
2018 'Highly commended', BMA Medical Book Awards 2018 in the Primary health care nomination: ‘Textbook of Occupational Medicine Practice’, 4th Edition, World Scientific Publishing. Author of the cardiology section
2016 CRN West Midlands Clinical Research Impact 'Award 2016 to SWBH Atrial Fibrillation Research Team'
2016 Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals Star Awards Excellence in Research Prize as a Member of Atrial Fibrillation Research Team'
Fellowships:
2008 (2 years) Research fellowship by the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology. ‘Ethnic differences in endothelial function in patients with heart failure
2006 (6 months) Clinical Training Fellowship of the European Society of Cardiology. ‘Endothelial progenitor cells and circulating endothelial cells in patients with atrial fibrillation’