Academic Clinical Lectureship Job Description: Cardiology
This NIHR Academic Clinical Lectureships offer academic and clinical training in Cardiology to those who
have completed a higher degree (MD/PhD) and are at ST3 level or above are eligible to apply. The
academic component of the training period will include postdoctoral research career development with
opportunities to develop an application for a postdoctoral training support (e.g. Clinician Scientist Award or
Intermediate Fellowship). The end of the clinical lectureship is marked by the completion of clinical training
and the attainment of a Certificate of Completion of Training and also by a period of high quality, further
post-doctoral training.
These Academic Clinical Lectureship posts will allow the successful candidate to spend 50% of their time in
clinical training and 50% of their time undertaking research in one of the Cardiovascular Research Centres
in the Institute of Cardiovascular Science http://www.ucl.ac.uk/cardiovascular, University College London.
These Clinical Lectureships will allow the clinicians to have protected time to further develop academic skills
to prepare and compete for an externally funded postdoctoral training fellowship.
NIHR posts are supported by research, training and travel grants which will be replicated in posts funded by
the Division of Medicine. Application to an external funding organization for project grant support would be
encouraged and supported.
This post is open to Specialist Registrars (SpR) or Specialty Registrars (StR) who have completed a
PhD/MD (or equivalent) in a relevant subject area or an MB PhD programme.
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Candidates may apply for a Clinical Lectureship post only if they have already submitted their
PhD/MD thesis at the time of application. However, successful candidates may not take up their post until
their PhD/MD has been fully awarded.
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If awarded after the 31st March 2013 deadline, the candidate will not be eligible to apply for a 2012
Clinical Lectureship.
The successful candidates will participate on the on-call Cardiology SpR rota at the UCLH and the Heart
Hospital.
1. Job title
NIHR Academic Clinical Lectureship in Cardiology.
2. Duration of post.
Up to 4 years
3. Hospitals in which training will take place.
University College London Hospital and Heart Hospital, University College London Hospital Trust
4. Research institutions in which training will take place
Candidates are strongly urged to contact the Principal Investigator(s) and discuss potential research
opportunities and the ongoing research work of the Centre prior to interview.
a. The Hatter Cardiovascular Institute (Prof Derek Yellon, Dr Derek Hausenloy)
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/medicine/hatter-institute or email d.hausenloy@ucl.ac.uk
Research interests include myocardial protection, ischaemic preconditioning and postconditioning, limiting
reperfusion injury at both a basic science level (physiological models of ischaemia-reperfusion injury, cell
signaling pathways and mitochondrial function) and in the clinical setting (CABG surgery, PCI).
Epidemiology & Public Health (Prof
Andrew
Steptoe and Prof Harry
Hemingway)http://www.ucl.ac.uk/epidemiology/ or email h.hemingway@ucl.ac.uk, and Professor
Aroon Hingorani, a.hingorani@ucl.ac.uk
b.
Research interests focus on cardiovascular disease in populations. Research interests include the
aetiology and prognosis of specific coronary phenotypes, large scale genomic studies of
cardiovascular disease and its risk factors including the use of genetic studies as natural trials fro
drug target validation and the interface between psychology and cardiovascular disease
presentation and mechanism.
c. The Centre for Cardiovascular Genetics (Prof Steven Humphries, Dr Phillipa Talmud)
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/medicine/cardiovascular-genetics/ or email rmhaseh@ucl.ac.uk
Research interests include identifying the genetic factors that contribute to an individual's risk of developing
coronary heart disease. In addition, investigating how the environment modulates the impact of these
genetic factors.
d. The Centre for Cardiology in the Young (Prof William McKenna, Dr Perry Elliot)
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/medicine/city or email william.mckenna@uclh.nhs.uk
Research interests include inherited cardiovascular disease in the young, targeting cardiomyopathic disease
(DCM, HCM and ARVC), heart failure and sudden death in the young.
e. The Centre for Cardiovascular Biology and Medicine (Prof John Martin, Prof Ian Zachary)
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/medicine/cardiovascular-biology/index.html or email i.zachary@ucl.ac.uk
Research interests include investigating the biological mechanisms that control the integrity of the vascular
wall and mediate its relationship with the blood such as the role of vascular endothelial growth factor as an
arterioprotective agent; Platelet and megakaryocyte biology as it relates to arterial thrombosis and
atherogenesis.
f. Cardiovascular MRI (Prof Andrew Taylor, Dr James Moon, Dr Anna Herrey, Dr Derek Hausenloy)
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/medicine/city or email james.moon@uclh.nhs.uk
Research interests include investigating the role of cardiac MRI in grown-up congenital heart disease;
cardiomyopathies, acute myocardial infarction and electrophysiology. Research and clinical imaging
operates across UCLH, UCL and Great Ormond Street hospitals
g. Electrophysiology (Dr Ed Rowlands, Dr Martin Lowe, Dr Pier Lambiase, Dr Tony Chow)
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/cardiovascular/research/arrhythmias or email pier.lambiase@uclh.nhs.uk
Research interests include investigating complex mapping for catheter ablation, cardiac restitution analysis
in ventricular arrhythmias, risk stratification in ion channel diseases and right ventricular cardiomyopathy
NIHR posts are supported by research, training and travel grants which are also available to matched posts
funded by the Division of Medicine. Application to an external funding organization for project grant support
would be encouraged and supported.
5. Timetabling of clinical and research time
Full Sub-Specialty Clinical Training
This academic training program focuses on achieving both academic and general cardiology training. As
detailed above it is expected that the trainee will devote around 50% of their time to research and
incorporation of full sub-specialty clinical training e.g. in interventional cardiology or electrophysiology will
require building on previous experience and on satisfying the local Specialist Training Committee.
6. Description of research component of programme
This will be tailored to the research programme the candidate wishes to join.
9. Academic Programme Director name
Dr Derek Hausenloy
Reader in Cardiology
Hatter Institute
University College London
67 Chenies Mews,
London WC1E 6HX
Phone 0203 447 9888
Fax 0203 447 5095
Email d.hausenloy@ucl.ac.uk
10. Clinical Programme Director name
Dr Tom Crake
The Heart Hospital
16-18 Westmoreland Street
London W1G 8PH
Email : tomcrake@aol.com
11. Programme contact for further information (phone or email)
Dr Hausenloy as above
12. Deanery contact for further information (email)
Richard Sams
Medical Workforce Officer
Academic Training
Medical Workforce Department
London Deanery
Stewart House, 32 Russell Square
London, WC1B 5DN
Tel: +44 (0)20 7862 8629
Fax: +44 (0)20 7866 3279
http://www.londondeanery.ac.uk/specialty-schools/integrated-academic-training
13. Useful websites for further information
Link to NCCRCD website for further information
www.nccrcd.nhs.uk/
14. Confirmation that the post attracts an NTN (A)
We confirm that the post attracts an NTN (A)
Proposed start date:
This job description was prepared in March 2012