Professor Jamil Mayet Biography:
Professor Mayet graduated in medicine at the University of Dundee in 1989. He completed a research fellowship in cardiovascular medicine at St Mary’s Hospital, Imperial College London in 1994 and was awarded an MBA at the Edinburgh Business School in 1997. He trained in clinical cardiology at St Mary’s Hospital and The Royal Brompton Hospital between 1994 and 2000. He is a founding member of the International Centre for Circulatory Health (ICCH). The mission of ICCH is to advance standards of care in prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease to reduce the expected increase in disease burden around the world.
Research:
Professor Mayet’s research interests are in the clinical development of new technologies for assessing and treating the heart and arteries and understanding how we can fine-tune current treatments to improve outcomes. Specifically he has interests in the physiology of coronary flow and blood pressure as well as the factors associated with the development of atherosclerosis. He has a long-standing interest in cardiac structural and functional variations in health and disease, particularly in hypertension and athletic training. He also has an interest in ethnic variations in cardiovascular disease.
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Email Uzma Chaudhary at prevent.card@imperial.ac.uk