John Mcmurray

Biography

 Professor McMurray served as the inaugural Eugene Braunwald Scholar in Cardiovascular (CV) Disease at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, USA, and visiting Professor of Medicine, Harvard University, Boston, in 2010/2011. He is also Past-President of the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). Professor McMurray’s primary research interest is in heart failure (HF) and his main research activity is clinical trials. He is, or was, the principal investigator, and member of the executive committee or steering committee in a number of large trials in HF, other CV diseases, renal disease and diabetes. Professor McMurray sits on the editorial board of the New England Journal of Medicine. He has published approximately 600 original papers, reviews, and book chapters and was the lead author of the World Health Organization and first Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network Guidelines on the Management of HF. In addition he was Co-Chair of the Kidney Disease Improving Global Outcomes Anemia Guidelines Committee; and member of the 2013 American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association HF Guidelines Committee. He is a member of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Acute HF Guidelines Committee and was recently appointed to NICE (Appraisal Committee A). Professor McMurray was included in the 2014 listing of Highly Cited Researchers by Thomson-Reuters.

Research Interest

 Medical Science