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Our links with trusted medical professionals are extremely important to us, so our panel of experts is made up of doctors who are both passionate in their field and have a special interest in women's health. Our team of experts are highly respected in their work, bringing with them a reliable source of information, sharing both current research and their knowledge to help us become a force for change in women's heart health.
DR. C. NOEL BAIREY MERZ, MD, FACC, FAHA
Director, Barbra Streisand Women's Heart Center
I am creating a permanent force for discovery and change. We don't know what the breakthroughs will look like for women's hearts in the next 40 years, but we know the Barbra Streisand Women’s Heart Center must be here for those advances to happen.
The research we conduct is leading to “in-the-clinic” solutions for patients. We have broken ground in several areas: providing better treatment for women who have chest pain but no visible artery blockage, examining the relationship between low estrogen levels and heart disease in premenopausal women, and using enrollment registries to encourage more women to participate in clinical trials.
Our ongoing research focuses on such high-impact areas as early detection and monitoring, including the use of MRI technology; treatments for often-undetected small artery dysfunction; the identification of gender-specific genes and proteins that reduce or increase the risk of heart disease; clinical trials of promising new drugs and therapies; and the use of female stem cells, which naturally circulate in women’s blood streams, to repair the heart and reverse heart disease—in both women and men.
We are the only heart center for women with strengths in clinical care, education, and research.
PROFESSOR DANA DAWSON, DM, FRCP, D.PHIL, FESC
Chair in Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Aberdeen
Professor Dawson qualified in medicine at University of Medicine “Grigore T. Popa”, Iasi, Romania. After completing her MRCP with the Royal College of Physicians in London she read for a D. Phil in Cardiovascular Medicine at Merton College, University of Oxford. She trained in Cardiovascular Medicine in Edinburgh, Oxford and London in the UK and at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, in the USA. In 2010 she moved to the University of Aberdeen and Aberdeen Royal Infirmary where she currently is Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and Consultant Cardiologist.
She made a significant contribution in advancing knowledge in acute stress induced (Takotsubo) cardiomyopathy, one of the main areas of research interest within the group. Several Takotsubo studies are ongoing and the Scottish Takotsubo Registry is accruing all incident and prevalent cases dating back to 2010.
There is keen interest in other topics such as diet and exercise based interventions to improve cardio-metabolic health in patients with type 2 diabetes, mechanistic trials exploring the cardiac substrate in patients with COPD who show clinical improvement whilst on betablocker therapy. There is a developing interest in cardio-oncology and in therapies for acute coronary syndromes.
The group is working together with MR physicists towards the unique development of fast field cycling magnetic resonance for cardiovascular disease (with Professor David Lurie's group).
Professor Dana Dawson leads the Cardiology and Cardiovascular Research Unit and together with her NHS Consultant Colleagues who have distinct Principal Investigator roles, they bring specific expertise to the group, creating a broad scope of activities.
The Cardiology and Cardiovascular Research Unit also has strong collaborative links with molecular nutritionists, diabetes/endocrinology and oncology clinical colleagues, sport physiologists, MR and PET physicists, synthetic molecular chemists and cardio-thoracic surgeons.
DR. SANJAY GUPTA, MBBS, MRCP, MD
Consultant Cardiologist, York Teaching Hospital
His special interests include all aspects of non-invasive cardiology and imaging and he is lead of the non-invasive imaging unit performing stress echo tests, complex trans-thoracic echocardiography and trans-oesophageal echo cardiology. Dr Gupta also represents general medicine on the patient safety group and has been been the recipient of two awards for clinical excellence.
Dr. Gupta wants to empower patients by imparting knowledge in an empathic and reassuring manner. "I want to do things differently." By using the power of the internet he provides high quality, reliable, jargon-free evidence based information at no cost to anyone in the world. His YouTube channel has 322,000 subscribers worldwide.
DR. DAVID ADLAM, BA BM BCH DPHIL, MEDICINE
Associate Professor, University of Leicester & Interventional Cardiologist
Dr. Adlam is an interventional cardiologist and researcher in a busy metropolitan heart attack center. He completed his BMBCH, and DPhil at University of Oxford, and is a Member of the Royal College of Physicians. His research interests include spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD); infective endocarditis; cardio-oncology; coronary optical coherence tomography (OCT), including its role in minimal invasive autopsy; and the role of tetrahydrobiopterin in the autonomic dysregulation of heart failure.
DR. GIULIA BINDA
York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Dr. Binda is a consultant cardiologist . She works at York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
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