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- BHF Vandervell Chair of Cogenital Heart Disease
- Clinical Science
- Institute of Cardiovascular Science
- Faculty of Pop Health Sciences
John Deanfield is British Heart Foundation Vandervell Professor of
Cardiology at University College Hospital, London, UK. He is also Consultant
Cardiologist at the Heart Hospital and Great Ormond Street Hospital, London.
Professor Deanfield undertook his undergraduate training at Churchill College,
Cambridge, UK and the Middlesex Hospital, London. He subsequently trained at
the Hammersmith and Great Ormond Street Hospitals, London.
Professor Deanfield is the Director of the National Centre for
Cardiovascular disease Prevention and Outcomes at UCL which incorporates the
National Databases for Cardiovascular Outcomes (NICOR). He is a Principle
Investigator in a Leducq transatlantic consortium evaluating HDL function in
Atherosclerosis. Professor Deanfield chairs the current Joint British Societies
(JBS3) new National guidelines for cardiovascular disease prevention.
Professor Deanfield serves on many international advisory boards and is
a member of the editorial boards of several major cardiovascular journals. He
has published numerous articles in leading medical and scientific journals such
as New England Journal of Medicine, Circulation and European Heart Journal. His
principal interests are vascular medicine, opportunities for lifetime
management of cardiovascular risk and large scale cardiovascular outcomes research.
Professor Deanfield's principal research interests have centered on grown-up congenital heart disease and the vascular biology of early atherosclerosis.