Professor Colin Berry

Current position Professor Colin Berry holds a Chair in Cardiology and Imaging in the University of Glasgow. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, the American College of Cardiology and the European Society of Cardiology. He is Director of Research and Development in the Golden Jubilee National Hospital. He is also a Consultant Cardiologist in this hospital and in the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow. His subspecialty interests are Imaging and Interventional Cardiology. Background Professor Berry undertook undergraduate medical studies at the University of Glasgow (1987-1993) and completed an intercalated science degree (Maîtrise, Physiology) at the University of Paris (1989-1990). He was awarded a PhD at the University of Glasgow (2002) in Cardiovascular Science and his studies were supported by a Medical Research Council Clinical Training Fellowship. Professor Berry trained in Cardiology and Internal Medicine (2001-2006) first in Glasgow and then at the Montreal Heart Institute (2005-2006). Whilst in Montreal, he worked in Jean-Claude Tardif's Atherosclerosis Research Group and used coronary imaging techniques to study stem cells and coronary artery disease. His research in Montreal was supported by a British Heart Foundation International Fellowship and an International Exchange Award from the Royal Society of Edinburgh. When in Montreal, he became the first British clinician to participate in transcatheter aortic valve replacement. He then undertook post-doctoral studies (2007-2009) in advanced cardiovascular imaging in Andrew Arai’s group at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, US National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD. This appointment was supported by a Lord Kelvin Adam Smith Fellowship from the University of Glasgow. In 2009, Professor Berry secured a Senior Clinical Fellowship from the Scottish Funding Council. In 2014, Professor Berry was awarded the Marshall Research Excellence Prize from the British Society of Cardiovascular Research. Currently, he is the Treasurer of the British Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance and the Chair of the Clinical Trials Committee of the Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance. He is the recent past Chair of the British Society of Cardiovascular Research.

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