Professor Simon Anderson to deliver UDOP Silver Anniversary Lecture
THE UNIVERSITY Diabetes Outreach Programme (UDOP), hosts of the 25th Annual International Diabetes Conference will kick off its silver anniversary celebrations with a special lecture to commemorate this major milestone.
The lecture will be delivered by one of UDOP’s very own, Professor Simon Anderson, on Thursday, April 25 at the Jewel Runaway Bay, St Ann, at 9:10 a.m. It is titled ‘Heart Disease and Diabetes: the Janus effect of sick arteries’.
To commemorate the event, Dr Anderson will be presented with the Silver Anniversary Award for outstanding achievements in the study of communicable diseases and loyalty to the University Diabetes Outreach Programme.
Dr Anderson is Professor of Population Health Sciences at the George Alleyne Chronic Disease Research Centre (CAIHR), University of the West Indies, Cave Hill campus, Barbados.
He is a distinguished graduate of The University of the West Indies, Mona, where he received a BSc (Hons) in Biochemistry and a PhD.
Professor Anderson is honorary clinical lecturer in the division of cardiovascular sciences at the University of Manchester, England. While studying and working overseas he earned several degrees and accolades including the MPhil (Cantab), MSc (Oxon), MBBCh (Wales) and MRCP (London).
As an academic, Dr Anderson’s main focus is to understand the causes, evolution, clinical management and prevention of cardiovascular diseases (heart and blood vessels). Clinically, he considers himself an academic cardiologist, who specialises in heart failure and transplantation.
Since winning the Commonwealth Scholarship to Cambridge University (1995), Prof Anderson has had 21 years of experience in epidemiological and methodological research with a primary focus on chronic non-communicable diseases: hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, mental health disorders, as well as the impact of ethnicity on health, at the University of Oxford.
A significant proportion of Dr Anderson’s recent work revolves around the analysis of data from the UK national audits of best practice for diabetes, heart disease and from the Clinical Practice Datalink, looking at sexual health. This collaborative work helped in setting national and international public-health guidelines for the management of cardiovascular disease.
PUBLICATIONS
Professor Anderson has to his credit more than 100 publications. He has published in many prestigious journals, including Lancet, on blood pressure – lowering, for prevention of cardiovascular disease and death. A systematic review and meta-analysis, this was selected as a finalist in the UK Research Paper of the Year category of The British Medical Journal Awards 2016.
His recently published manuscripts have been considered by the University of Manchester for University Impact Case Studies. This was based on research that made a material and distinctive contribution to medicine.
UDOP’s special anniversary awardee is a prolific writer and researcher of book chapters, abstracts, publications of studies, oral presentations, and editorials. He is a peer reviewer for many journals.
CLINICAL SKILLS
Prof Anderson has had specialist training in the management of heart failure in a tertiary referral institution, central Manchester Royal and Wythenshawe. He has been a General Cardiology Specialty Registrar, managing in-hospital, ward, regional and urgent referrals via the emergency department.
Dr Anderson enjoys membership in the Royal College of Physicians, UK, is a fellow of the Cambridge Commonwealth Society, the European Society of Hypertension, British Commonwealth Society, British and Irish Hypertension Society, British Heart Failure Society, European Association of the Study of Diabetes, and Medical Defence Union.
He is the recipient of numerous prizes, awards and fellowships, including: 2017 runner-up in the British Society for Heart Failure Young Investigator oral presentation, London; 2016 first prize for Best Poster, Mid-Summer Endocrine Updates meeting; May 2016, Muzaffar Abad, Kashmir, Pakistan; 2014 Fellow, European Society of Cardiology, and the Dennis Burkett Study Award (for Nutrition work in the Commonwealth ,2004).