Edited by Simon Redwood, Profesor of Interventional Cardiology, King's College London, St Thomas' Hospital, London, UK, Nick Curzen, Consultant Cardiologist, University Hospital Southampton NHS foundation Trust, Southampton, UK, and Adrian Banning, Consultant Cardiologist, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK
Simon Redwood trained in cardiology at The Royal London Hospital, The Royal Free Hospital and St. George's Hospital, London. Interventional training was obtained at The Washington Cardiology Center, Washington, DC and Guy's and St. Thomas' Hospitals. He obtained Fellowship of the American College of Cardiology in 2001 and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 2003 and Fellow of the Society of Angiography and Interventions in 2004. Dr Redwood is Reader/ Consultant Interventional Cardiologist and Director of the Cardiac Catheter labs at St. Thomas', one of the highest volume catheter lab suites in the UK. He is also a Council Member and Treasurer of the British Cardiovascular Intervention Society. He is trained in all aspects of adult interventional cardiology including intravascular ultrasound, physiological lesion assessment using pressure-sensor tipped wires, stent implantation, rotational atherectomy, and laser angioplasty including the laserwire for chronic total occlusions.
Nick Curzen is a consultant cardiologist with a special interest in coronary intervention at Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust and Honorary Senior Lecturer at Southampton University Medical School. He qualified from Southampton with Honours in 1987 and obtained MRCP in 1990. In 1996 he was awarded his PhD from Imperial College, London, for a thesis involving vascular pharmacology and molecular biology. His clinical training was at Southampton University, Royal Bournemouth, Royal Brompton, London Chest and St Bartholomews hospitals. He became a consultant interventional cardiologist at Manchester Royal Infirmary in 1999 and moved to Wessex Cardiothoracic Centre, Southampton in January 2004.
Adrian Banning is consultant cardiologist at the John Radcliffe University Hospital, Oxford, and currently holds the post of President of the British Cardiovascular Intervention Society (BCIS). He was the Clinical Lead for cardiac medicine, and subsequently the Divisional Director for Cardiology, Cardiothoracic, and Vascular Surgery for the John Radcliffe, and has been the leading investigator for multiple practice-changing trials, including Syntax, Excel, and Horizons. He qualified from St George's Hospital, London in 1987, and obtained Fellowship of the European Society of Cardiology in 2001, followed by Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians in 2003. He was Assistant Editor to the journal Heart for six years, and has published over 190 peer reviewed papers.
Mohamed Abdel-Wahab
Segeberger Kliniken GmbH (Academic Teaching Hospital of the Universities of Kiel, Lübeck and Hamburg), Bad Segeberg, Germany
Zulfiquar Adam
The James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, UK
David Adlam
Cardiovascular Research Centre, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
Bashir Alaour
Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
Ayman Al-Saleh
Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada
Christopher Baker
Imperial Healthcare NHS Trust, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK
Adrian P. Banning
John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK
Amerjeet Banning
St George's Hospital Medical School, London, UK
Vinayak Bapat
St Thomas' Hospital, London, UK
Emanuele Barbato
Cardiovascular Center Aalst, Aalst, Belgium
Michael Bellamy
Imperial Healthcare NHS Trust, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK
Tim Betts
John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK
Gurbir Bhatia
Royal Stoke University Hospital, Stoke-on-Trent, UK
Ravinay Bhind
Northern Clinical School, University of Sydney, Australia
Ricardo Boix Garibo
St Thomas' Hospital, London, UK
Natalia Briceno
Cardiovascular Clinical Academic Group, St Thomas' Hospital, London, UK
Eric Brochet
Cardiology Department, Bichat Hospital, University Paris VII, Paris, France
Adam J. Brown
Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, UK
Richard A. Brown
Grodno State Medical University, Grodno, Belarus
R.P.J. Budde
Thoraxcenter, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Jonathan Byrne
King's College Hospital, London, UK
Adriano Caixeta
Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo, Brazil
Patrick A. Calvert
Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, UK
Kenneth Chan
University College London, Royal Free Hospital, London, UK
Jaya Chandrasekhar
Ichahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai, New York, USA
Keith M. Channon
Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Bernard Chevalier
Institut Cardiovasculaire Paris Sud, Massy, France
Fizzah Choudry
Barts Heart Centre, St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, UK
A. Coenen
Thoraxcenter, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Simon J. Corbett
University Hospital Southampton, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
Nick Curzen
Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
George Dangas
Zena and Michael A. Weiner Cardiovascular Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, USA
Mark A. de Belder
The James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, UK
Adam de Belder
Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust, UK
Bernard De Bruyne
Cardiovascular Center Aalst, Aalst, Belgium
Giovanni Luigi De Maria
John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK
Grégory Ducrocq
Cardiology Department, Bichat Hospital, University Paris VII, Paris, France
Mikhail S. Dzeshka
University of Birmingham Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, City Hospital, Birmingham, UK
Jean Fajadet
Clinique Pasteur, Toulouse, France
Bruno Farah
Clinique Pasteur, Toulouse, France
Vasim Farooq
St George's Hospital, London, UK
Peter J. Fitzgerald
Department of Medicine, Stanford University, California, USA
Stephane Fournier
Department of Cardiology, University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland
Philippe Garot
Institut Cardiovasculaire Paris Sud, Massy, France
Philippe Généreux
Morristown Medical Centre, New Jersey, USA
Tony Gershlick
Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
Michael Ghosh-Dastidar
St Thomas' Hospital, London, UK
Mark Gunning
Royal Stoke University Hospital, UK
Mohamed Hamady
Imperial Healthcare NHS Trust, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK
Colm G. Hanratty
Belfast Health and Social Care Trust, Belfast, UK
Robert Henderson
Nottingham University Hospitals, Nottingham, UK
David Hildick-Smith
Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton, UK
Roland Hilling-Smith
Queensland Cardiovascular Group, Mater Hospital, Brisbane, Australia
Dominique Himbert
Cardiology Department, Bichat Hospital, University Paris VII, Paris, France
Yasuhiro Honda
Cardiovascular Core Analysis Laboratory, Stanford University, California, USA
Thomas Hovasse
Institut Cardiovasculaire Paris Sud, Massy, France
Christine Hughes
Clinique Pasteur, Toulouse, France
Sebastiano Immè
Ferrarotto Hospital, University of Catania, Catania, Italy
Bernard Iung
Cardiology Department, Bichat Hospital, University Paris VII, Paris, France
Sanjit Jolly
Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada
John Jose
Segeberger Kliniken GmbH (Academic Teaching Hospital of the Universities of Kiel, Lübeck and Hamburg), Bad Segeberg, Germany
Theodoros D. Karamitsos
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
George Kassimis
Cheltenham General Hospital, Cheltenham, UK
Adnan Kastrati
DZHK (German Center for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Munich Heart Alliance, Munich, Germany
Kenneth Kent
Medstar Heart Institute, Washington, District Of Columbia, USA
Vikram Khanna
Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
Charles Knight
Barts Heart Centre, St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, UK
Thierry Lefèvre
Institut Cardiovasculaire Paris Sud, Massy, France
Gregory Y.H. Lip
Aalborg Thrombosis Research Unit, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
Melvin D. Lobo
William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
Tim Lockie
St Thomas' Hospital, London, UK
Yves Louvard
Institut Cardiovasculaire Paris Sud, Massy, France
Peter F. Ludman
Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Birmingham UK
Philip MacCarthy
King's College Hospital, London, UK
Michael Mahmoudi
Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
Iqbal Malik
Imperial Healthcare NHS Trust, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK
Nikesh Malik
University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
Steffen Massberg
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany
Anthony Mathur
Barts Heart Centre, St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, UK
Annette Maznyczka
King's College Hospital, London, UK
Peter A. McCullough
Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, USA
Roxana Mehran
Zena and Michael A. Weiner Cardiovascular Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, USA
Saidi Mohiddin
Barts Heart Centre, St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, UK
Olivier Muller
Department of Cardiology, University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland
Stefan Neubauer
Oxford Centre for Clinical Magnetic Resonance Research, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK
K. Nieman
Thoraxcenter, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Marko Noc
Center for Intensive Internal Medicine, University Medical Center, Ljubljana, Slovenia
James Nolan
Royal Stoke University Hospital, Stoke-on-Trent, UK
Kevin O'Gallagher
King's College Hospital, London, UK
Peter O'Kane
Royal Bournemouth Hospital, Bournemouth, UK
Constantinos O'Mahony
Barts Heart Centre, St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, UK
Hiromasa Otake
Department of Internal Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan
Divaka Perera
Cardiovascular Clinical Academic Group, St Thomas' Hospital, London, UK
Augusto D. Pichard
Medstar Heart Institute, Washington, District Of Columbia, USA
Bernard Prendergast
St Thomas' Hospital, London, UK
Peter Radsel
Center for Intensive Internal Medicine, University Medical Center, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Bushra S. Rana
Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, UK
Simon Redwood
King's College London, St Thomas' Hospital, London, UK
David H. Roberts
Lancashire Cardiac Centre, Blackpool Victoria Hospital, Blackpool, UK
Toby Rogers
Medstar Heart Institute, Washington, District Of Columbia, USA
Stefanie Schüpke
Deutsches Herzzentrum München, Technische Universität, Munich, Germany
Patrick W. Serruys
Thoraxcenter, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
James C. Spratt
Belfast Health and Social Care Trust, Belfast, UK
Rod Stables
Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital, Liverpool, UK
L.E. Swart
Thoraxcenter, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Claudia Ina Tamburino
Ferrarotto Hospital, University of Catania, Catania, Italy
Corrado Tamburino
Ferrarotto Hospital, University of Catania, Catania, Italy
Martyn Thomas
St Thomas' Hospital, London, UK
Mohsin Uzzaman
Birmingham Children's Hospital, Birmingham, UK
Alec Vahanian
Cardiology Department, Bichat Hospital, University Paris VII, Paris, France
Manish Vahanian
Barts Heart Centre, Barts Health NHS Trust, London, UK
Richard Varcoe
Nottingham University Hospitals, Nottingham, UK
Chee Wah Khoo
Royal Stoke University Hospital, UK
Simon J. Walsh
Belfast Health and Social Care Trust, Belfast, UK
Giora Weisz
Shaare Zedek Medical Center. Jerusalem, Israel
Nick E. J. West
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Muhammed Zeeshan Khawaja
Guy's and Thomas' NHS Hospitals Foundation Trust, London, UK