Cardiovascular and Respiratory Disease – Contact Details

Theme lead: Professor Martin Bennett

Professor Bennett trained in Cardiology in Birmingham and Cambridge, and in research at the Imperial Cancer Research institute in London and University of Washington, Seattle, USA.

He currently holds the British Heart Foundation Chair of Cardiovascular Sciences at the University of Cambridge, with Honorary Consultant Cardiologist positions at Cambridge University and Royal Papworth Hospitals.

Professor Bennett directs the BHF Cambridge Centre for Research Excellence and the Cambridge Cardiovascular Interdisciplinary Research Centre. His clinical research programme examines the ability of invasive and non-invasive coronary artery imaging to identify vulnerable atherosclerotic plaques, focussing particularly on virtual histology intravascular ultrasound and optical coherence tomography.

His studies couple imaging with biomechanics to better predict patient outcomes, including developing novel artificial intelligence-based solutions to analyse scans and predict patient events. Professor Bennett is an NIHR Senior Investigator and has been Principal Investigator of some of the pivotal clinical trials in this area.

Contact: mrb24@medschl.cam.ac.uk

Professor Menna Clatworthy

Honorary Nephrology Consultant, NIHR Research Professor and Professor of Translational Immunology

Contact: mrc38@cam.ac.uk

Dr Joseph Cheriyan

Associate Lecturer in Medicine and Consultant Physician in Clinical Pharmacology

Contact: jc403@cam.ac.uk

Professor John Danesh

Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine, and Head of Dept of Public Health and Primary Care

Professor Christi Deaton

Professor of Nursing Research

Dr Jonathan Fuld

Respiratory Consultant

Professor Fiona Gilbert

Honorary Radiology Consultant, Professor of Radiology

Contact: fjg28@cam.ac.uk

Dr Charles Haworth

Respiratory Consultant

Professor Hugh Markus

Honorary Consultant

Professor Michael Murphy

Professor of Mitochondrial Biology

Dr James Rudd

Honorary Consultant

Contact: jhfr2@am.ac.uk

Dr Sanjay Sinha

Honorary Consultant and BHF Senior Research Fellow

Contact: ss661@cam.ac.uk

Professor Nicole Soranzo

Professor of Human Genetics

Professor Charlotte Summers

Honorary Consultant and University Lecturer in ICU/Dept Director of Clinical Academic Training and Director of Academic Clinical Fellow Programme

Dr Mark Toshner

Honorary Consultant and University Lecturer

Contact: mrt34@cam.ac.uk

Dr Elizabeth Warburton

Consultant Stroke Medicine

Professor Ian Wilkinson

Honorary Consultant Physician and Director of Cambridge Clinical Trials Unit

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