Cardiology

Cardiology, Churchill's Ready Reference--------------------------------------------------Cardiology: Churchill's Ready Reference provides a practical compilationof information to assist in the everyday clinical management of thecardiac patient. In this volume, the authors have included an abundanceof diagrams, figures, and tables that they find helpful in understandingsome of challenges and conditions frequently encountered in this areaof medicine and it is to be hoped that the volume will guide cliniciansin the diagnosis and management of common conditions encountered ona daily basis in this area of practice. This book is not meant to replacelarger, more complete textbooks, but to complement them and will beuseful at the bedside, in the office and for teaching.--------------------------------------------------Author Biography: Alexander R. Lyon MA, BM, BCh, MRCP PhD Walport ClinicalLecturer and Specialist Registrar in Cardiology, Imperial College andImperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK Alexander Lyonis a Cardiology Specialist Registrar and Walport Clinical Lecturerin Cardiology at Imperial College London. Dr Lyon studied Medicineat Oxford University where he took a 1st Class degree in PhysiologicalSciences in 1995, achieving second place in the final honours school.After qualifying from the John Radcliffe Medical School in 1998, hetrained as a junior doctor in Cardiology in Oxford, the Royal BromptonHospital and Sydney, Australia. He joined the Cardiac Medicine researchgroup of Professor Sian Harding and Professor Philip Poole-Wilson,where he studied the influence of cardiac gene therapy upon ventriculararrhythmia generation. He was awarded a MRC Clinical Research TrainingFellowship in 2005. He completed his PhD in 2008, and spent his firstpostdoctoral year studying the spatiotemporal patterns of mitochondrialfunction in the lab of Fadi Akar and Roger Hajjar at Mount Sinai Schoolof Medicine, New York. He was appointed Walport Clinical Lecturer inCardiology in October 2008. His main research interests include: 1.Abnormal calcium physiology in heart failure. 2. Mechansims of ventriculararrhythmias in heart failure. 3. Biological therapies for heart failure- these include gene therapy, stem cell therapy and myocardial tissueengineering. 4. Spatio-temporal patterns of mitochondrial dysfunctionin the intact heart. 5. Influence of stress and high catecholaminelevels on cardiac function. Recent academic awards include the RoyalSociety of Medicine Cardiology Section President's Medal Winner (2007),Medical Research Society Raftery Prize in Cardiovascular Sciences winner(2008), European Meeting of International Society of Heart ResearchBest Scientific Poster Prize (2008). He has presented at numerous nationaland international meetings in the field of cardiac calcium pathophysiologyand gene therapy in heart failure. He is currently supervisor for twoImperial College PhD students. Glyn Thomas MD Specialist Registrarin Cardiology, Newham General Hospital, London, UK Vanessa Cobb, BSc,MBBS, MRCP, is a Specialist Registrar in Cardiology Specialist Registrarin Cardiology at The Heart Hospital, University College London HospitalsNHS Trust, London, UK. She obtained a BSc in Immunology and Basic MedicalScience in 1996 and qualified from Kings College School of Medicineand Dentistry in 1999. Jamil Mayet MBChB, MD, MBA, FESC, FACC, FRCPChief of Service, Cardiovascular Medicine, Imperial College HealthcareNHS Trust, London, UK