TRANSLATIONAL - Genomics, Proteomics & Other 'omics' in Cardiovascular Medicine
Track
:
TRANSLATIONAL
Program Code:
L08-1
Date:
Saturday, June 13, 2009
Time:
5:30 PM to 6:00 PM
EST
SPEAKER
:
A Dominiczak, MD, FRCP, BHF Glasgow Cardiovascular Res/Univ of Glasgow Disclosure: Nothing to disclose
Professor Anna Dominiczak is a British Heart Foundation Chair of Cardiovascular Medicine and heads the BHF Glasgow Cardiovascular Research Centre at the University of Glasgow. She is also a Consultant Physician and Endocrinologist at the Western Infirmary and Associate Dean for Research at the Faculty of Medicine. She has a major research interest in cardiovascular genomics and systems medicine and holds a BHF Programme Grant. “Genomics and proteomics of hypertension and its vascular complications: the pathwayomic strategies.” Her total research income in the last 3 years is in excess of £35 million. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, the Academy of Medical Sciences, the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the American Heart Association. In addition to membership of several editorial boards, Professor Dominiczak was Editor-in-Chief of Clinical Science between 2004 and 2008. Her scientific and clinical contributions have been recognised by invitations to serve on the Medical Research Council Physiological Medicine Board, British Heart Foundation Project Grant Committee, the Wellcome Trust Physiological Science Committee and the Scientific Advisory Board of the Leducq Foundation. Professor Dominiczak is an author of 230 publications in peer-reviewed journals. In 2005 she was awarded OBE for services to medicine.