Professor William John McKenna

William McKenna's present position is Emeritus Professor of Cardiology - University College London, and Emeritus British Heart Foundation Chair of Molecular Cardiovascular Sciences. Professor McKenna’s main interests have been in clinical and basic research of the cardiomyopathies. His recent work has contributed to the identification of disease-causing genes in hypertrophic, dilated and arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy, to the establishment of new diagnostic criteria within the context of familial disease, and to the establishment of algorithms to identify patients at high risk of sudden death