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Professor Martin R Cowie
Chair in Cardiology (Health Services Research)
National Heart & Lung Institute
Tel: +44 (0)20 7351 8856
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Professor Martin R Cowie
Martin Cowie is Professor of Cardiology (Health Services Research) and is a Consultant Cardiologist at the Royal Brompton Hospital.
After qualifying from the University of Aberdeen in 1989, Professor Cowie trained in London in cardiology and epidemiology, undertaking a MSc in Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. His MD related to work on the epidemiology of heart failure in the UK. After a brief period back in Scotland, he returned to Imperial College in 2001, taking up the Chair of Cardiology (Health Services Research) at the National Heart & Lung Institute, with his clinical practice based at the Royal Brompton Hospital in Chelsea. In 2006/7 he was the Director of Research & Academic Affairs at the Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Trust.
He has worked as an advisor to the Department of Health, the National Institute for Clinical Excellence, the Department of Work & Pensions, and the Health Care Commission.
Currently Chair of the British Society for Heart Failure, and Chairman of the Education Committee of the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology, his major clinical and research interests are in the delivery of efficient and effective care for patients with heart failure and those at risk of this debilitating condition.
Professor Cowie lectures widely in the UK and Europe on cardiovascular disease, and organises many multiprofessional educational events. He advises industry in the development and marketing of innovative products that can help improve the life-expectancy and quality of life of people with heart failure.
As well as writing chapters for medical textbooks, including sections on heart failure for the Oxford Textbook of Medicine, Professor Cowie has published widely in cardiovascular medical journals. He is also frequently interviewed in the national media regarding heart issues, and particularly enjoys talking to the public about heart matters, working alongside the Wellcome Collection and other educational bodies.
