Heart Failure

Philip A Poole-Wilson BA, MB, BChir, MA, MD, FRCP, FACC, FESC, FMedSci is the British Heart Foundation Simon Marks Professor of Cardiology and Head of Cardiovascular Sciences, National Heart & Lung Institute (NHLI), Imperial College London and Honorary Consultant Physician at the Royal Brompton & Harefield Hospitals, London, UK. He qualified (MB) in 1967. He held clinical positions until 1972 at various hospitals in London and was a British American Travelling Research Fellow at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) from 1973 to 1974. His thesis was accepted for MD (Cantab) in 1975. After holding positions as Senior Lecturer (National Heart Hospital) and Reader in Cardiology he was appointed as Professor of Cardiology at the University of London in 1983. In the period 1990-2000 he served as Clinical Director, Research Director, and Non-Executive Board Director of the Royal Brompton Hospital. He was Head of the Division (National Heart and Lung Institute (NHLI)) in the Faculty of Medicine of Imperial College London from 1997 to 2000. He has been a member of the Council and Senate of Imperial College London.Professor Poole-Wilson's other appointments include President of the European Society of Cardiology (1994-1996) and President of the World Heart Federation (2003-2005) of which he is currently the Past-President. He has served on many committees within the Department of Health, MRC, Research Assessment Exercise, British Heart Foundation and Welcome Trust in the UK. He is on the Editorial Board of several leading journals and is Chairman/Member of the Steering or Monitoring Committees of several large clinical trials. He was awarded Le Prix Europe et Medecine 2001 de l'Institut des Sciences de la Sante, Paris and has received many other awards. As of March 2006 he had 459 citations in PubMed. His specialist interests are heart failure, coronary heart disease and the global prevention of heart disease and stroke.