17th Global Cardio Vascular Clinical Trialists Forum December 3 - 7th, 2020

Every year brings landmark, evidence-based clinical trials in cardiovascular, cardiorenal and cardiometabolic medicine. The CVCT Forum is a unique global
meeting where key experts and physicians from various backgrounds discuss game-changing topics including trial rationale, design issues, trial conduct and operational issues, statistical methodology and interpretation, clinical meaning, regulatory agency approvability, valuation, and implementation into practice guidelines. This year’s forum will be a live digital experience with interactive programming and live discussion.

 

George Clinical’s Cardiometabolic Leaders at the Global CVCT Forum include:

 

Please download this Program with the panels and presentations featuring our Scientific Leaders above. Or visit globalcvctforum.com for comprehensive event information.

George Clinical's Leadership in Attendance

Professor Heerspink’s principal research interests include optimizing current treatment strategies and finding new therapeutic approaches to halt the progression of renal and cardiovascular disease in patients with diabetes with a specific focus on personalized medicine. He is Professor of Clinical Trials and Personalized Medicine; Clinical Pharmacologist at the Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacology at the University Medical Center Groningen, the Netherlands; and visiting professor at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. He worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at The George Institute for Global Health, Sydney, Australia, where he investigated the effects of blood pressure-lowering regimens on renal and cardiovascular outcomes in patients with chronic kidney disease.

Professor Heerspink leads and participates in clinical trials focused on renal and cardiovascular complications of Type 2 diabetes. His main expertise includes clinical trial design and personalized medicine as well as methodological aspects and statistical analyses of clinical trials. Based on his work at The George Institute, he was awarded a young investigator grant and subsequently in 2015 a consolidator investigator grant from the Dutch organization of scientific research and received in 2016 the Galien award for his research. 

Dr. Wheeler’s research interests are in chronic kidney disease complications, specifically those that increase cardiovascular disease burden and/or accelerate kidney failure progression. He is Honorary Consultant Nephrologist at the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust and Professor of Kidney Medicine at University College London. He has participated in developing and running several large-scale clinical trials testing lipid-lowering regimens, calcimimetics, and sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors in patients with chronic kidney disease. He has developed clinical practice guidelines for several organizations.

Dr. Wheeler is a Research Partner with The George Institute for Global Health and has developed clinical practice guidelines for several organizations, most recently for Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO), of which he is currently Co-Chair. He is Clinical Lead for Division 2 of the North Thames Clinical Research Network and heads a team of eight Clinical Trials Nurses/Practitioners at the Centre for Nephrology, Royal Free Hospital in London. He is Past President of the UK Renal Association, past chair of the UK Renal Registry and currently National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) National Specialty Lead for Nephrology.

Dr. Kosiborod’s research has a strong focus on the intersection of diabetes and cardiovascular disease. He is Vice President of Research at Saint Luke’s Health System; Director of Cardiometabolic Research and Co-Director of the Haverty Cardiometabolic Center of Excellence at Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute; and Professor of Medicine at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He is an internationally recognized expert in diabetes and cardiovascular disease, cardiometabolic and cardiorenal syndromes, as well as quality of care and outcomes. He received training in clinical research, epidemiology and health policy through the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, as well as clinical training in cardiovascular medicine at Yale University School of Medicine.

As a practicing clinician and researcher, Dr. Kosiborod seeks to establish a practical system of implementing adoption of new treatments that have been proven to be life saving into practice in a more timely manner. He continues to be involved in the leadership of numerous clinical trials and multi-center registries, and serve as the Principal Investigator of investigator-initiated, multi-center trials in diabetes and cardiovascular disease, most recently of SGLT2 inhibition.

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