NIHR research professor
University of Leicester
Leicester, England, United Kingdom
Gerry McCann is a Professor of Cardiac Imaging and Hon. Consultant Cardiologist, at the University of Leicester and the theme lead of the NIHR Leicester Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Centre. Professor McCann is a graduate of the University of Glasgow, where he also studied physiology and sports science, and undertook clinical training there as well as in New Zealand, Leicester, Amsterdam (cardiac MRI) and was a visiting fellow at Oxford. Gerry has led a large tertiary clinical MRI service in Leicester, with imaging colleagues, since 2005 and supervises and reports approximately 1100 scans per annum.
Gerry was a full-time NHS consultant before undertaking successive NIHR research fellowships since 2011 and was awarded an NIHR Research Professorship in 2018. Prof. McCann directs a very active clinical imaging research programme with funding from the British Heart Foundation, MRC and the National Institute of Health Research. He is the immediate past Chair of the British Society of Cardiovascular MRI research group, which develops multi-centre clinical studies in the UK,
Gerry’s research portfolio spans valvular heart disease, heart failure, acute coronary syndromes and stable angina with multiple collaborators nationally and internationally. The prevalence of heart failure in a multi-ethnic population with T2D and how best to diagnose and prevent symptom onset is the subject of his NIHR Research professorship and with the Leicester Diabetes Centre, has undertaken several clinical trials in people with T2D.
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Wednesday, January 25, 2023
3:15 PM – 4:45 PM
Thursday, January 26, 2023
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Thursday, January 26, 2023
4:30 PM – 5:10 PM
Thursday, January 26, 2023
4:30 PM – 5:10 PM
Friday, January 27, 2023
2:40 PM – 2:55 PM