Job title: University of Witwatersrand Johannesburg, South Africa, Consultant Vascular Surgeon Professor of Venous Surgery
Prof Stephen Black is a Consultant Vascular Surgeon at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital and a Professor of Venous Surgery at Kings College, London. He is the Site Lead for Surgery at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital and the Co-R&D Lead for the Cardiovascular Directorate (Cardiology, Cardio-Thoracic and Vascular Surgery). He was Clinical Lead for Vascular Surgery for 4 years (2019-2023).Dr Black is the…
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Author(s):
Subodh Verma
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1 year ago
AHA 22 - Dr Subodh Verma (St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, CA) presents the findings of an ethnicity-focussed analysis of the EMPEROR-POOLED study, originally revealed at AHA 2022.
EMPEROR-POOLED was a pooled analysis from the EMPEROR-Preserved and EMPEROR-Reduced studies, which studied the effects of empagliflozin on patients with heart failure. This sub-analysis aims to evaluate the clinical…
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Job title: Consultant Interventional Radiologist
Dr Narayanan Thulasidasan is a consultant interventional radiologist at at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK. Narayanan has authored or co-authored several articles published in leading peer-reviewed journals, has lectured widely, and has served as a speaker at several leading international vascular events.
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Job title: Clinical Senior Lecturer and Consultant Vascular Surgeon
Prakash Saha is a clinical senior lecturer at Kings College and honorary consultant endovascular surgeon at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital, London, UK where he is the clinical lead for venous and lymphoedema surgery.Following the completion of his Wellcome Trust-funded PhD in 2012, Dr Saha has remained active in research and been awarded research grants from the Royal College of Surgeons, Royal…
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Job title: The Chair of the Department of Cardiology and Vascular Medicine
Prof. Grigorios Korosoglou has been The Chair of the Department of Cardiology and Vascular Medicine in the GRN Academic Teaching Hospital Weinheim since January 2015. Before this appointment he was Chair of the cardiac imaging section (CCT & CMR) at the Department of Cardiology, Angiology and Pneumology of the University of Heidelberg, Germany (Director of the Department: Prof. Dr. Hugo A. Katus)…
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Author(s):
Kellee P Patterson,
Keith C Ferdinand
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3 years ago
“From putting knowledge before wisdom, science before art, and Cleverness before common sense; From treating patients as cases; And from making the cure of the disease more grievous than the Endurance of the same, Good Lord, deliver us.” – Sir Robert Hutchison1
“Data are not facts; facts are not information; information is not truth; truth is not wisdom. The wise application of empirical facts…
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Author(s):
Keith C Ferdinand
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3 years ago
Heart failure is a major health concern in the US and is particularly problematic in the African-American community where the disease has an earlier onset and exhibits increased mortality, even with hospitalisation. Early onset is manifested primarily in middle-aged patients, where the rates of heart failure are higher than that with a higher mortality than in whites. Between the ages of 45 and…
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Author(s):
David Lanfear
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2 years ago
In this video, Professor David Lanfear (Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI, US) discusses a subgroup analysis of GALACTIC-HF which aimed to evaluate the effect of omecamtiv mecarbil in black patients with heart failure (HF) with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF). Originally presented at HFSA 2021, the additional results suggest that the outcomes in black patients treated with this drug are similar…
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Job title: Director of Cardio-Oncology
DrAvirup Guha, Assistant Professor at Augusta University, leads Cardio-Oncology at the Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, US. Dr Guha's ongoing research, under the patronage of the American Heart Association and the Department of Defense, delves deep into the translational science concerning biological disparities between White and Black men with prostate cancer (PC) undergoing androgen…
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