Biography - Professor John Camm

Name: A. John Camm, QHP, MD, FRCP(London), FRCP(Edinburgh), FACC, FESC, FMedSci, FHRS, CStJ
Position: BHF Professor of clinical cardiology
Research centre: Cardiovascular Sciences
Division: Clinical Sciences
Room: 0.246

Tel: +44(0)208 725 3414
email: jcamm@sgul.ac.uk

Research interests

Arrhythmias, ablation, devices, antiarrhythmic drugs, anticoagulation, atrial fibrillation, ventricular tachycardia, inherited channelopathy, risk stratification  (atrial fibrillation, post myocardial Infarction, cardiomyopathy, heart failure), chronic stable angina, clinical trials, cardiovascular drug safety, acquired long QT syndrome.

Biography

I am a Professor of Clinical Cardiology at St Georges University of London, United Kingdom.

I am Chairman of the Department of Cardiac and Vascular Sciences and past Chairman of the Department of Medicine at St George's.  I am also past Chairman of the European Society of Cardiology Working Group on Cardiac Arrhythmias, former Chairman of the European Society of Cardiology Working Group on Arrhythmias, past President of the British Pacing & Electrophysiology Group, past President of the British Cardiovascular Society and a past council member of the Royal College of Physicians and a former Trustee of the North American Society of Pacing and Electrophysiology (now the Heart Rhythm Society). 

I am currently the President of the Arrhythmia Alliance, a trustee of the Atrial Fibrillation Association, the Drug Safety Research Unit, the American College of Cardiology and the Interventional Cardiac Pacing and Electrophysiology Society and Editor of Europace, the only European Journal devoted to cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmology. I am also Editor of the European Society of Cardiology Textbook on Cardiovascular Medicine, Evidence Based Cardiology and Electrophysiology of the Heart.

I graduated from Guy's Hospital, London and pursued a career in Cardiology at St. Bartholomew's Hospital.  In 1986, he moved to the British Heart Foundation Chair of Clinical Cardiology at St. George's Hospital.

I am particularly interested in clinical cardiac electrophysiology, cardiac arrhythmias and implantable devices for rhythm control.

I am a worldwide renowned clinical trialist and have held or hold memberships in 30 multicentre study committees and have given over 1,000 lectures to international audiences, written more than 1000 peer review papers, more than 500 book chapters and over 30 books.