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    University of Warwick

    Professor Francesco P Cappuccio

    MB BS; MD; MSc (Epid); DSc; DLSHTM; FRCP; FFPH; FAHA

    Cephalon Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine & Epidemiology
    Honorary Consultant Cardiovascular Physician
    Head, World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Nutrition
    Director, European Centre of Excellence in Hypertension and Cardio-Metabolic Research

    Researcher ID: D-3028-2009

    Tel. +44 (0)24 7657 3129 or 3218
    Fax. +44 (0)24 7696 6271
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    P.A./Research Coordinator Ms Patricia McCabe
    Tel. +44 (0)24 7657 4883
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    Profile

    Franco moved to Warwick in July 2005 to take up the newly established Cephalon Chair in Cardiovascular Medicine & Epidemiology. He is a cardiovascular physician, a clinical epidemiologist and a public health expert. After his medical degree in Naples, he moved to Britain where he trained at Charing Cross Hospital, St George's Hospital Medical School and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in London. In 2000 he became Professor of Clinical Epidemiology & Primary Care at St George's, University of London.

    His main interests are in the prevention, detection and management of hypertension and its complications of the heart, brain, kidneys and the circulation. His research interests are the epidemiology of cardiovascular disease, nutrition and health, metabolic abnormalities and cardiovascular risk, risk in ethnic minorities, both in developed and developing countries.

    Franco heads up a multi-disciplinary research group with a number of research objectives: to develop and establish a programme of national and international cardiovascular epidemiology, to develop and establish a significant national and international programme of research into Sleep, Health and Society, to facilitate clinical research into sleep disorders, to assist the development of undergraduate and postgraduate education into sleep medicine and its impact on health and society.


    Qualifications
    1981 MB, BS (Hons) University of Naples
    1984 MD (Hons) University of Naples
    1993 MSc (Epidemiology) University of London
    1996 MRCP London
    1996 CCST in General Medicine
    1997 DLSHTM University of London
    1999 FRCP London
    2000 MFPHM (now MFPH)
    2002 European Diploma of Hypertension Specialist (ESH)
    2006 FFPH London
    2007 FAHA American Heart Association
    2012 DSc University of Warwick

    Current Roles
    1987 - Steering Committee, The Olivetti Prospective Heart Study
    1991 - Principal Investigator, Wandsworth Heart & Stroke Study
    2000 - Principal Investigator, Kumasi Study in West Africa
    2006 - Strand Lead (Prevention), West Midlands Local Stroke Research Network (WMLSRN)
    2006 Technical Expert, World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, Switzerland
    2007 Technical Expert, World Health Organization (WHO), Copenhagen, Denmark
    2008 - 2012

    Member, Information Service & Guidelines Working Party, British Hypertension Society

    2008 - Core Member, Cardiovascular Diseases Expert Group, Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries and Risk Factors Study
    2009 - 2013 Committee Member, Cardiovascular Health Committee of the Faculty of Public Health of the Royal College of Physicians
    2009 - 2012 Ordinary Member, Executive Committee, British Hypertension Society
    2010 - 2012

    Topic Leader for Stroke, West Midlands (South) CLRN

    2010 -

    Individual Member, National Heart Forum

    2010 -

    Associate Editor, Sleep journal

    2011 - 2014

    Deputy Clinical Lead, West Midlands Stroke Research Network

    2012 - 2015

    Chair, Prevention Clinical Study Group, NIHR UK Stroke Research Network

    2012 - 2016

    Member, WHO Expert Advisory Panel on Nutrition


    Awards
    2003 2002 RCGP and Boots The Chemists Research Paper of the Year Award (Royal College of General Practitioners)
    2003 I.S.H.I.B. Distinguished Researcher Award for 2003 (International Society of Hypertension in Blacks)
    2005 40th Anniversary Gold Medal of the Lithuanian Society of Cardiology
    2007 International Fellowship of the American Heart Association (FAHA)
    2008

    European Society of Hypertension Centre of Excellence in Hypertension & Cardio-Metabolic Research

    2008 World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Nutrition  

    Membership of learned societies
    National
    Association of Physicians of Great Britain & Ireland (APGB&I)
    British Hypertension Society (BHS)
    British Sleep Society (BSS)
    National Heart Forum NHF (individual member)

    Primary Care Cardiovascular Society (PCCS)

    International
    European Society of Hypertension (ESH)
    American Society of Hypertension (ASH)
    International Society & Federation of Cardiology (Section on Epidemiology & Prevention)
    American Sleep Association (ASA)
    European Society of Cardiology (ESC) (Working group on Epidemiology & Prevention)
    Council on High Blood Pressure of the American Heart Association (AHA)
    Council on Epidemiology & Prevention of the American Heart Association (AHA)
    International Epidemiological Association (IEA)
    International Society of Hypertension in Blacks (ISHIB) (Scientific Planning Committees 1997; 2001; 2003)
    International Society of Nephrology (ISN)
     

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    Sleep and Health
    • http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7858921.stm (30/01/09)
    • guardian.co.uk/society/2008/dec/30/junior-doctors-working-hours-bma
    • sleep.med.harvard.edu/news/
    • Safety and the flying doctor (25/01/2008)
     
    Salt and Health
    • There's no doubt about the health dangers of salt, read more in the New Scientist
    • Italian Ministry of Health (14/06/2010) Symposium on Salt and Health
    • Salt and Cardiovascular Disease (28/04/2007)
    • Salt as a vehicle for fortification (2008)
    • Reducing salt intake in populations (2007)
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