Dr Victor Elliott for Hon Errol Morrison Distinguished Award and Lecture
YOUNG, BRIGHT, talented and adventurous are some of the words to describe Dr Victor Elliott, the 2019 nominee for the Hon Errol Morrison Distinguished Award. Dr Elliott will receive the award and a citation on Thursday, April 25 at the 25th Annual International Diabetes Conference to be held at Jewel Resort, Runaway Bay, between April 25 and 27.
He receives the award for his outstanding and significant innovations in the management of the cardiovascular system.
Following the presentation, Dr Elliott will deliver the distinguished lecture named for the Hon. Errol Morrison, OJ, director of the University Diabetes Outreach Programme (UDOP), president of the Diabetes Association of Jamaica, and convenor of the annual conferences.
The title of his lecture is ‘Management of Acute Myocardial Infarction (MI) in the Diabetic’.
Dr Elliott is a consultant in internal medicine and Cardiology at The University Hospital of The West Indies and associate Lecturer, the Department of Medicine, University of the West Indies (UWI).
This year’s awardee is an Interventional Cardiologist. He is co-founder and managing director of Partners Interventional Centre of Jamaica (PICJ) since 2016. Dr Elliott conceptualised and co-developed the private cardiac facility housed in a private hospital, the first of its kind in Jamaica. He has conceptualised and developed innovative programmes, namely: ablation therapy, continued educational programmes for staff and patients, and reports on cardiac investigative procedures.
Dr Elliott is a graduate of the UWI, Mona, where he received a Bachelor of Medicine Bachelor of Surgery in 1996 and a doctorate in internal medicine (DM) in 2002.
He is an international clinical Fellow in Cardiology (University of Toronto, UT)). In 2006 he received a Fellowship in Interventional Cardiology from UT.
This Jamaican cardiologist has performed over 2,000 percutaneous coronary intervention and 6,000 coronary angiograms inclusive of using the radial approach in Jamaica since 2006.
He is the first professional to employ the use of an Intracoronary Cutting Balloon, Export Intracoronary aspiration device, to deploy the Xience V and Promus DES stent and to employ the use of Starclose vascular closure device in Jamaica, first to employ the use of the Trek balloon coronary system in the Western Hemisphere (2010) and first to use Intravascular Ultrasound (IVUS) for coronary procedures in Jamaica.
Dr Elliott has a number of publications, including: Assessing multiple malignancies in Jamaica (Williams, Nadia; Elliott, Victor; et al. Department of Pathology), West Indies Medical Journal, 2002; The Effects of Prolonged Exercise on Left Ventricular Function (Frey, Elizabeth; Sasson, Zion; Elliott, Victor; Persaud, Joan; Goodman, Jack. Faculty, Physics. Education and Health, Mt Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto) and Cardiovascular disease among diabetics inpatients in a tertiary hospital in Jamaica (Ferguson T, Wilks R, Elliott V, et al) Diabetes and Vascular Disease Research, 2010. MEMBERSHIP
Dr Elliott enjoys membership in the Caribbean Cardiac Society Council; is Fellow of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions; the American Heart Association; and the Association of Black Cardiologists.