Professor Barbara Casadei

Barbara Casadei graduated in Medicine at the University of Pavia, Italy. She moved to the University of Oxford in 1989 where she was awarded a DPhil in 1995 and a Professorship in Cardiovascular Medicine in 2006. She is currently British Heart Foundation (BHF) Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, Honorary Consultant Cardiologist, and Head of the National Heart and Lung Institute at Imperial College London. Barbara is Fellow of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences, holds the highest honour of the British Cardiovascular Society (The Mackenzie Medal). She is a Past President of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC, 2018-20). She co-founded EuroHeart, an initiative supporting the assessment and improvement of quality of cardiovascular care in Europe and is a member/chair of several Scientific Advisory Boards including the Fondation Leducq, the Netherland Heart Institute and the Max Delbrück Centre for Molecular Medicine in Berlin.