Bsc, MB, ChB, FRCP, FESC
Professor of Cardiac Imaging
Department of Cardiological Sciences
St. George’s Hospital Medical School
Cranmer Terrace, London, SW17 0RE
Telephone: +44 (0)20 8725 1397
Fax: +44(0)20 8725 4402
email: george.sutherland@stgeorges.nhs.uk
Research Areas:
Doppler Myocardial Imaging
Ultrasonic Strain/Strain Rate Imaging
Myocardial Ischaemia/Perfusion
Right Ventricular Function
BIOGRAPHY
George R. Sutherland graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1972. His cardiology training took place in Edinburgh, London and Newcastle. He was appointed Consultant Cardiologist in Southampton in 1984 and subsequently was Director of Clinical Echocardiography in the Thoraxcenter in Rotterdam from 1986-90. He became Senior Lecturer in Cardiology and British Heart Foundation Senior Research Fellow in the University of Edinburgh in 1990 and was subsequently appointed Professor of Cardiology in the University of Linkoping, Sweden in 1996 and then Professor of Cardiac Imaging in the Catholic University of Leuven in 1998.
He is currently Professor of Cardiac Imaging at St. George's Hospital, London. He is a Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (Edin). He is past Chairman of the Working Group on Echocardiography of the European Society of Cardiology (2000-2002). He is currently Deputy Editor of the European Heart Journal.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Doppler Myocardial Imaging
Ultrasonic Strain/Strain Rate Imaging
Myocardial Ischaemia/Perfusion Imaging
Right Ventricular Function
ABBREVIATED CURRICULUM VITAE
George R. Sutherland, BSc, MB, ChB, FRCP (Edin), FESC
Department of Cardiological Sciences, St. George’s Hospital Medical School
Cranmer Terrace, London, SW17 0RE
Tel: +44 (0)20 8725 1397 Fax: +44 (0) 20 8725 4402 Email:george.sutherland@stgeorges.nhs.uk
Date and Place of Birth: 16th December 1948, Buckie, Scotland
Academic and Professional Degrees:
1969 B.Sc (Med.Sci) Edinburgh
1972 MB, ChB Edinburgh
1975 MRCP Edinburgh
1989 FRCP Edinburgh
1992 FESC
Employment and Positions
Present Position: Consultant Cardiologist, St. George’s Hospital
Previous Positions:
Professor in Cardiac Imaging
Gasthuisberg Ziekenhuis, University of Leuven, Belgium
1996-2004 Professor of Cardiology
Heart Center, University Hospital, Linkoping, Sweden
Senior Lecturer in Cardiology
Western General Hospital Edinburgh
British Heart Foundation Senior Research Fellow
Honorary Consultant Cardiologist
Department of Cardiology, Western General Infirmary, Edinburgh
Consultant Cardiologist and Director of Clinical
Echocardiography. Head of Congenital Heart Disease Clinic, Thoraxcentrum, Academisch Ziekenhuis, Rotterdam
Consultant Paediatric and Adult Cardiologist
Southampton General Hospital, Southampton
Senior Registrar in Paediatric Cardiology to Dr. S. Hunter
and Dr. H. Bain, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne
Membership of Scientific Societies:
Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (Edinburgh), Member of the British Cardiac Society.
Offices Held in Scientific Societies:
Secretary of the Working Group of Echocardiography of the European Society of Cardiology August 1991-93
Chairman Elect of the Working Group on Echocardiography of the European Society of Cardiology August 1998-2000
Chairman of the Working Group on Echocardiography of the European Society of Cardiology
August 2000-2002
Member of Science Council — European Society of Cardiology 2002 — 2004
Deputy Editor European Heart Journal 2002 — present
Editorial Boards:
European Journal of Echocardiography 1999 — present
Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography 2001 — present
Acta Cardiologica 1998 — present
Regular Reviewer for : Circulation, Journal of American College of Cardiology, American Heart Journal, Heart etc.
Academic Committees:
American College of Echocardiography — Echocardiography Committee 2000 - 2003
Summary of Publications
Journal Publications: 241 Congress Proceedings: 26
Papers accepted for Journal Publication: 12 Papers submitted for Journal Review: 26
Papers in Preparation: 7
Books Published: 5 Books in Preparation: 1
Book Chapters Published: 63
