Teaching
I have regular invitations to deliver Masterclasses and Keynote/plenary lectures at International/Major National Meetings, often delivering the Opening Ceremony inaugural lecture, or Named Lecture at major congresses.
I have regular invitations to deliver >100 Keynote/plenary lectures at International/Major National Meetings, often delivering the Opening Ceremony inaugural lecture, or Named Lecture at major congresses. Some recent examples (selected) as follows:
• Bradshaw Lecturer for the Royal College of Physicians of London, in November 2013: (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradshaw_Lecture)
• March 2014, appointed Visiting Professor and delivered the annual Razavi Lecture at Cleveland Clinic Medical School, USA.
• March 2014, appointed Wu Chung Visiting Professor and lecturer at the University of Hong Kong
• May 2014, Special Grand Rounds Visiting Lecturer at Columbia University, New York, USA.
• September 2014, awarded the Polish Cardiac Society medal, and gave the Inaugral Opening Lecture at the XVIII Congress of the Polish Cardiac Society, in Poznan, Poland.
• January 2015, delivered Sun Chieh Yeh Heart Foundation Lecture at the Opening Ceremony, Cardiorhythm 2015, Hong Kong.
• April 2015, delivered the Michaelides lecture, at the 30th International Meeting on Clinical Cardiology, organized by the Hellenic Heart Foundation; Athens, Greece
• May 2015, delivered the Founders Lecture at the Heart Rhythm Society meeting (world’s largest arrhythmia meeting) in Boston, USA
• June 2015, delivered the Opening Ceremony Plenary Lecture at the Norweigian Cardiac Society meeting, Tromso, Norway
• September 2015, delivered the Opening Ceremony Inaugural Lecture at the Romanian Congress of Cardiology meeting, Sinaia, Romania (September 2015) and conferred honorary membership of the Romanian Society of Cardiology.
• October 2015, Opening Ceremony lecture 26th Great Wall International Congress of Cardiology (GW-ICC) & Asia Pacific Heart Congress 2015 & International Congress Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation 2015
• March 2016, Opening Plenary guest lecturer: Dutch Cardiology Society Conference, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands
• April 2016, Opening Plenary ‘State of the Art’ Lecture, National Heart Association of Malaysia
• May 2016, Hungarian Society of Cardiology Opening ceremony and Honorary Membership lecture, Annual Scientific Congress of the Hungarian Society of Cardiology, Balatonfüred
• June 2016, Cardiostim-EHRA Europace 2016 Opening Ceremony ‘State of the (he)Art’ lecture ‘Stroke and bleeding risk in atrial fibrillation: evidence, guidelines and clinical practice.’
• June 2016: Martin Green Lecture, Ottawa Heart Research Conference 2016: Translational Research in Atrial Fibrillation
• October 2016: Prof. Chudomir Nachev Lecture, at the 15th Bulgarian National Congress of Cardiology, Sofia, Bulgaria.
• November 2016, Key Note Speaker at National Institute for Preventive Cardiology of Ireland - National Prevention Meeting (www.nipc.ie) in Galway, Ireland.
• December 2016, Opening Ceremony Lecture at the Icelandic Society of Internal Medicine Congress, Reykjavik.
• February 2017: Closing Ceremony Plenary Lecture, at 61st Annual Meeting of the Society of Thrombosis and Hemostasis Research (GTH), Basel, Switzerland, February 15th – 18th2017.
• May 2017: Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh Sir Derrick Melville Dunlop Keynote lecture in RCPE West Midlands Regional Symposium, 3rd May 2017.
• September 2017, XXI International Congress of the Polish Cardiac Society - Katowice, Poland. Keynote State-of-the Art Lecture in the Zabrze-Birmingham Joint Symposium
• March 2018: Conferred Honorary Professorship, Chiang Mai University, Thailand
• April 2018: Appointed as Honorary Baker Professorial Fellow, Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Australia.
• May 2018: Inaugural lecture and conferred as Honorary Professor, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, China
• May 2018: Inaugural lecture and conferred as Honorary Professor, Beijing Capital Medical University, China
• June 2018: Delivered the Mirsaid Mirrakhimov Lecture at Kyrgyz Society of Cardiology meeting in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan; Conferred Honorary Membership of the Kyrgyz Society of Cardiology
• July 2018: Conferred Distinguished Professorship, Faculty of Medicine, Aalborg University, Denmark.
• August 2018: Conferred Honorary Professor in National Center for Clinical Research of Geriatric Diseases, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China.
• March 2019: Kasarn Jatikavanij Memorial Lecture at the Annual meeting of the Heart Association of Thailand, Hua Hin, Thailand
• October 2019: “N.Gh. Lupu Lecture” at the 5th International Symposium “Heart Rhythm Update – The New Rhythm in Cardiology”. Bucharest Oct 19-19, 2019
• September 2021: Louis R. Dinon Lecturer: ‘Improving risk assessment and streamlining the management of atrial fibrillation: Easy as ABC …’ Grand Rounds at Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia
• April 2022: Sutcliffe Kerr Lecturer: Walton Centre for Neurosciences, Liverpool
• September 29th 2022: European Heart Journal EHJ Dialogues (Invited Speaker): https://youtu.be/iBkungOafaM
• November 2022: 15th Asia-Pacific Heart Rhythm Society (APHRS) Scientific Session Opening Ceremony Keynote Lecture ‘Management of Complex Atrial Fibrillation Patients: Easy as ABC’ 18-20 November 2022
Academic supervision/training and evaluation:
I have successfully supervised ~50 awarded higher degrees (MD/PhD/MPhil) since 1997 [15 theses since 2012]. I am currently supervising 6 students, with ongoing research or awaiting thesis submission.
My international network of collaborators has allowed me to pursue to strategy of academic research globalisation and the study of culture/ethnic/country-specific issues, particularly cardiovascular conditions. Regular research meetings have facilitated the development and coordination of projects, as well as supervision of early career researchers and research fellows from Thailand, China, Korea, Taiwan, France, Denmark, Brazil and Sri Lanka. LCCS hosts PhD students and other researchers in rotation from these countries.
Other teaching and education initiatives:
I led the development of the European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA) AF patient education website [www.afibmatters.org]. Since 2013, translated into French/German/Spanish/Italian versions.
AF patient counselling/education methodology from my TREAT trial [PMID: 24040156] has been implemented into outpatient clinical services, & adopted by other units. This approach is ‘good practice example’ in NICE NOAC (new anticoagulants) Implementation Consensus (2014). With US collaborators, I helped develop an education/decision support tool, AF Guideline Support Tool (AFGuST), which improves quality-adjusted life expectancy for a primary care AF population [PMID:25205788]. This patient-tailored tool bridges the gap between guidelines & practice, facilitating shared decision making, with good results (PMID:25690491). Ongoing research now focuses on NHS implementation. Locally, I have been supporting GP leads from Clinical Commissioning Groups in disseminating programmes for bridging primary-secondary care AF management (2015-). This integrates primary-secondary care management pathways, esp. new anticoagulants for AF and venous thromboembolism with CCGs and Trust (2015). I have also been conducting up-skilling programme for local GPs on AF, in close collaborations with Clinical Commissioning Groups (2015-). This has linked in with the West Midlands Academic Health Sciences Network (2017-) and Public Health England, where I am AF specialist lead representing secondary care (2017).
I have advised/written for UpToDate [popular resource for teaching/education, updated 3x/year], Oxford Textbook of Medicine (AF and Hypertension chapters, 5th ed. 2015 and 6th ed 2017, includes MCQs) and ESC Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine (Part of ESC core curriculum for European cardiologists – Section Lead, new edition 2018) I have advised and written for BMJ Point of Care (2010-) and the Royal College of Physicians Map of Medicine (2010).