Coronary Physiology

• Author of more than 120 scientific communications (of which more than 50 in International Congresses).
• Author of more than 20 articles published, most in International journals
• Associate investigator of multiple multicentre clinical trials and national and international registries
• Assistant of the course of Introduction to the Clinic (3rd year, Faculty of Medicine of Lisbon).
• Professor and responsible for the module of Cardiology Emergencies of the Graduate Course in Emergency and Hospital Emergency, College of Postgraduate Studies of the School of Health of the Atlantic University
• Co-Editor of the Risk Factors Journal of the Portuguese Society of Cardiology (2014-2017)
• Reviewer of several National and International medical journals 2006-2007 - Director and Technical Officer of "Choque Pr'a Vida" (first automatic external defibrillation project in Portugal)
• Basic Life Support Instructor, External Automatic…

Divaka Perera is a Professor of Interventional Cardiology in the School of Cardiovascular Medicine & Sciences and an Honorary Cardiologist at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital. He graduated in medicine from Cambridge University, undertook cardiology specialist training in London and Sussex and received a Clinical Senior Lectureship Award from the Higher Education Funding Council for England in 2008. In 2013, he received the BCS Michael Davies Early Career Award for contribution to cardiovascular science. 

He runs a translational research programme into the mechanisms and consequences of reduced blood supply to the heart muscle in chronic coronary artery disease, acute myocardial infarction and valve disease. He is also involved in designing and performing multicentre clinical trials to evaluate novel treatments for patients with ischaemic heart disease. He is the chief investigator of the NIHR-funded UK multi-centre randomised control trial REVIVED, which seeks to clarify…

Prof Andrew Sharp qualified from Edinburgh Medical School in 1998. He conducted his senior clinical training at Imperial College Hospitals and San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, before being appointed in 2011 as a Consultant Cardiologist and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital and University of Exeter. Professor Sharp was awarded an MD postgraduate research degree for his work on the hypertensive heart whilst at Imperial College and now leads a growing research programme at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital in the fields of hypertension, renal denervation, ischaemic heart disease, intra-coronary imaging, coronary physiology, pulmonary embolus and aortic valve disease.