Dr Jim Moore

Past President of the Primary Care Cardiovascular Society, GP, GPSI Cardiology, Gloucestershire

Dr Moore is a GP in Gloucestershire with a special interest in Cardiovascular Medicine and Past President of the Primary Care Cardiovascular Society, spearheading significant changes in this organisation. He lectures extensively across the UK.

He has been heavily involved in National CVD advisory groups, guidelines and working parties. He was a member of the NICE Chronic Heart Failure in Adults Guideline committee (2016-2018) and was a board member of British Society for Heart Failure.

Dr Moore has provided cardiovascular clinical support to local commissioning organisations for over two decades and more recently to Cardiac Networks in the South-West. He is currently Clinical Co-Lead (Primary Care) for the West of England Integrated Cardiac Clinical Network.

Dr Moore is the National Clinical Co- Lead (Primary Care) for the National Cardiac Transformation Programme which has included working closely on NHSE initiatives such as Managing Heart Failure @Home and more recently chaired a group that developed the National (NHSE) guidance for the Virtual Ward care for people with heart failure (in publication).

He has been involved in the establishment and subsequent development of the community-based Gloucestershire Heart Failure service since its inception in 2003 where he continues to work as a GPSI.

Prof Michael Norton

Consultant Community Cardiologist, Visiting Professor of Community Cardiology and Deputy Medical Director, Dept of Community Cardiology, Sunderland and North East Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust

Professor Michael Norton is a Consultant Community Cardiologist and Visiting Professor of Community Cardiology based in the North East of England. Michael runs the Dept. of Community Cardiology in Sunderland. He is also the Deputy Medical Director of the North East Ambulance Service and is clinically active in pre-hospital emergency medicine. Michael has significant experience in syncope and related disorders having worked for over eighteen years (six as head of Department) within the Falls & Syncope Service at Newcastle’s Royal Victoria Infirmary. Michael’s main clinical and research interests are cardiovascular risk reduction, neuro-cardiovascular syncope and cardiac arrest. He is a director and national council member of the Primary Care Cardiovascular Society. He is also the co-founder of Cardioproof, a community interest company, which aims to improve survival from cardiac arrest by increasing bystander CPR and use of public access defibrillators.

Beverley Bostock

PCCS President Elect, Advanced Nurse Practitioner, Mann Cottage Surgery and Editor in Chief, Practice Nurse Journal

Bev is an Advanced Nurse Practitioner in long-term conditions.  She is currently President Elect of the Primary Care Cardiovascular Society.  She has a special interest in cardiovascular disease (CVD), diabetes, heart failure, chronic kidney disease and lipid management along with common comorbidities such as metabolic liver disease, asthma and COPD. She is Editor in Chief of Practice Nurse Journal and has been a Queen’s Nurse since 2015.    

In a previous role she developed and delivered accredited modules in cardiovascular disease, heart failure and diabetes in collaboration with the Open University.  As well as holding an MA in Medical Ethics and Law and an MSc in Respiratory Care, Bev has a PgDip in Diabetes from the University of Warwick. Bev has had an extensive range of articles published in various journals on the management of long-term conditions and is a regular speaker at national conferences.

Prof Lis Neubeck

Professor of Cardiovascular Health in the School of Health and Social Care and Head of the Centre for Cardiovascular Health at Edinburgh Napier University

Professor Lis Neubeck is cardiac nurse with over 25 years of experience in a range of cardiac in-patient and out-patient settings. She is Professor of Cardiovascular Health in the School of Health and Social Care and Head of the Centre for Cardiovascular Health at Edinburgh Napier University. Her research focuses on innovative solutions to secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease, identification and management of atrial fibrillation, and use of digital health to improve access to health care. Lis is the NHS Research Scotland Cardiovascular Clinical Network Lead, and the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) patient forum lead.

Dr William Jenkins

Consultant Cardiologist, Edinburgh Heart Centre, Edinburgh Royal Infirmary

Dr. Jenkins is a Consultant Cardiologist sub-specialising in Heart Failure, Cardiomyopathy and multimodality imaging. He undertook the bulk of his Cardiology Training in Edinburgh, including a PhD in the University of Edinburgh, and went on to do a fellowship in the Mayo Clinic, in Rochester Minnesota. In 2021 he was appointed a Consultant in Gloucestershire, taking on the role of Heart Failure lead and laterally the departmental clinical lead role in 2024. In 2025 he moved back to Edinburgh and works in the Edinburgh Heart Centre in the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, while holding a Honorary Senior Lecturer position in the University of Edinburgh.

Prof Colin Berry

Professor of Cardiology and Imaging

Colin Berry is the Professor of Cardiology and Imaging at the University of Glasgow. He is Director of the British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence and Director of Research in the School of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Health. He is also the Director of Research at the Golden Jubilee National Hospital and a Consultant Cardiologist in this hospital and in the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow.

Professor Berry is an Executive Editor of the European Heart Journal and President of the British Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (2022-2024). He is a Steering Group member of the International Coronary Vasomotor Disorders International Study Group (COVADIS). In 2023, he founded a new Working Party for Ischaemic Heart Disease in the British Cardiovascular Society. Previously, he led the British Society of Cardiovascular Research, the Research Group of the British Cardiovascular Intervention Society, and the Clinical Trials Committee of the Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance.

Prof Adrian Brady

Honorary Professor of Cardiology at the University of Glasgow and Consultant Cardiologist, Glasgow Royal Infirmary, and President of the Scottish Cardiac Society.

Professor Brady graduated in Medicine from Edinburgh University in 1985, summa cum laude.  He trained in Cardiology at the Hammersmith Hospital, the London Chest Hospital and the National Heart and Lung Institute, London.  During his research time Professor Brady won the British Cardiac Society Award and the American Heart Association Young Investigator Award.  He was awarded MD from Edinburgh University in 1993 and appointed Consultant Cardiologist to Glasgow Royal Infirmary in 1996.  Professor Brady won the RCPE Croom Lecture in 1997.

He is visiting Professor of Cardiology, Mayo Clinic; Visiting Professor of Cardiology, Cleveland Clinic; Visiting Professor of Cardiology, Public Health Foundation of India;  Honorary Fellow of the Hong Kong College of Cardiology, and Honorary Member of the Korean Society of Cardiology.

Professor Brady’s major specialities are the clinical aspects and epidemiology of hypertension, coronary heart disease and pulmonary embolism.  He was the principal investigator in four major UK studies (totalling 140,000 patients).  He was the Principal Investigator for the UK in the IMPROVE-IT trial (TIMI 40) in acute coronary syndromes.

Professor Brady has published >120 papers to date in medical research journals on the above subjects and also in basic cardiovascular biology.  His textbook, “New Perspectives on Hypertension,” is now in its third edition.  He is the Principal author of the Hypertension section of the current Mayo Clinic Textbook of Cardiology.   Professor Brady has given > 240 invited national and international lectures including Plenary lectures at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), the European Atherosclerosis Society, the American Heart Association, the Japanese Circulation Society, the French Cardiac Society, the National Societies of South Korea, Chile, Portugal, Hong Kong, Thailand, Norway, Denmark, Croatia, Slovenia, Lithuania, Iceland and Egypt, the World Congress of Cardiology and the Mayo Clinic.  Professor Brady represented the ESC on a lecture tour of China. 

Professor Brady was elected a Fellow of the American Heart Association in 2003, and the ESC in 2011.  He is the Past President of the British and Irish Hypertension Society, past Chairman of the Guidelines Committee of the British Cardiovascular Society, and represented the UK on the ESC Guidelines Development Group.  Professor Brady was a principal author of the 2007 Scottish National Guideline for Coronary Heart Disease, the 2008 ESC Guideline on Pulmonary Embolism, and the 2010 SIGN Guideline for Venous Thromboembolism (VTE).  He will chair the forthcoming 2024 SIGN Guideline for VTE.  He is past Chairman of SHARP, the Scottish cardiovascular research charity.  Professor Brady is President of the Scottish Cardiac Society 2023-2026.

Professor Brady conceived, developed and led the acclaimed Football Health Scotland study of dietary and lifestyle therapy in middle-aged men.  Professor Brady is the clinical lead for this national project, Scotland’s largest health programme, linking football and health across the nation.  His Channel 4 television programme about diet and blood pressure was screened in 2018.