James is a Professor of Cardiology UCL, London and the Clinical Director of Imaging at the newly opened Barts Heart Centre (BHC). Formerly, he set up and lead the Heart Hospital Imaging Centre, a dedicated cardiac MRI department performing 3500 scans a year with a triple focus on clinical scanning, research and education.

The new Barts Heart Centre has 3 dedicated CMR scanners (2 1.5T Aeras and a 3T Prisma). The centre is at scale – estimates of annual activity are 9,000 CMR scans, 3000 nuclear scans, 3000 CT scans and 40,000 echos.

Trained at Cambridge and Oxford, his MD at Imperial was ‘myocardial tissue characterization by CMR’. His current research group of 10 fellows  have particular interests in measuring diffuse myocardial fibrosis (health, disease); iron, fat infiltration and amyloid using "T1 mapping". He has published more than 200 papers and works in partnership with Pharma to develop surrogate endpoints for clincical trials including first in man studies. Another interest is in making scans faster/cheaper and in improving/maintaining quality as CMR expands. He set up and leads the international T1 mapping development group aiming to "coordinate activity to the goal of being able to change therapy using CMR endpoints".  He is a former board member of SCMR, the current president elect of the British equivalent, BSCMR. He is a former member of NICE.

Education interests are key to the group and significant successes include the setting up of web resources (SCMR video-on-demand, case of the week, online Moodle training - http://education.scmr.org/), as well as local hands-on training courses for upto 4 fellows at any one time - please see here.

http://www.scmr.org/Education/fellowtraining.html#.VcM9erlRGT0.