The ESC Handbook of Preventive Cardiology: Putting prevention into practice (The European Society of Cardiology Series)
Brand: Oxford University Press, USA
Categories: Books, Medical Books, Medicine



Dimensions: 7.6 x 0.4 x 5 inches
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0199674035
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Print length: 352 pages
Publication date: September 28, 2016
ISBN-13: 978-0199674039
Edition: 1st
Part of series: The European Society of Cardiology
subtitle: 1st Edition
author: Catriona Jennings Ian Graham Stephan Gielen
review: Editorial Reviews About the Author Catriona Jennings, Cardiovascular Specialist Research Nurse, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, UK ,Ian Graham, Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland ,Stephan Gielen, Associate Professor of Cardiology, Heart Centre, University of Leipzig, Germany Catriona Jennings is a cardiac specialist nurse and the European Research Nurse coordinator for EUROACTION and EUROASPIRE III in the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London. Ian Graham qualified in medicine at Trinity College, Dublin. He trained in the Adelaide and St. Vincent's Hospitals in Dublin, and at Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, England. He held the post of MRC Research Fellow and, later, Director of Research at St. Vincent's Hospital and was also Director of Research at the Irish Heart Foundation. He is past president of the Irish Heart Foundation, the Irish Hyperlipidaemia Association, and of the Dublin University Biological Association. He also founded the Irish Cardiac Surgery Register. Awards and distinctions have included a Medical Research Council Fellowship, an ISFC Cardiovascular Epidemiology Fellowship, the first Stokes Lectureship in Dublin and an EU Travelling Fellowship at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, and Fellowships of the European Society of Cardiology and of the American College of Chest Physicians. He is an honorary Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Stephan Gielen is an Associate Professor, Head of the Heart Failure Programme and an interventional cardiologist at the Heart Centre of the University of Leipzig. He is President-elect of the European Association for Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation, Speaker of the Working Group of Preventive Cardiology of the German Society of Cardiology, and Vice Speaker of the Working Group on Cardiac Diseases in the Elderly. After his medical education at the University of Bochum, Germany, Harvard Medical School, Boston, and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA, he started his internship at Heidelberg University before moving to Leipzig in 1997.