Gerry McCann
Professor of Cardiac Imaging and Hon. Consultant Cardiologist,
University of Leicester
Gerry McCann is a Professor of Cardiac Imaging/ NIHR Senior Investigator and Honorary Consultant Cardiologist at the University of Leicester. He is the Cardiovascular theme lead for the NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre and and the Intervention theme lead for the BHF Leicester Centre of Research Excellence. Gerry was a full-time NHS consultant cardiologist before undertaking successive NIHR research fellowships since 2011. He directs a very active clinical imaging research programme with funding from the British Heart Foundation, MRC and his previous NIHR Research Professorship and subsequent BHF programme grant is focused on the prevalence of heart failure in a multi-ethnic population withT2D and how best to diagnose and prevent symptom onset, working closely with researchers from the Leicester Diabetes Centre. He has numerous national and International collaborations. Gerry has an excellent track record in building research capacity and has undertaken extensive leadership and mentoring training. His trainees have won numerous national and international awards for their research and have published over 125 papers in the last 5 years.