AFRICA CARDIOVASCULAR JOURNAL OF AFRICA • SAHS Biennial Congress 16-18 September 2022 4 INTERNATIONAL FACULTY Professor Claudio Borghi Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences Head of division of Cardiovascular Medicine and Hypertension University of Bologna Via Massarenti, 9Bologna, Italy Biography Professor Claudio Borghi is Full Professor of Medicine and Head of the Department of Medicine and the ESH Excellence Center for Hypertension and Atherosclerosis at the University of Bologna. He is director of the post-graduate school on Emergency Medicine and chairman of the PhD program of Health and Technology of the University of Bologna His research activities have been mainly focused on clinical epidemiology and on the therapeutic approach to cardiovascular risk, with special interests in hypertension, dyslipidemia and related risk factors, including serum uric acid. Professor Borghi is Past President of the Italian Society of Hypertension. He is currently President of the Italian Foundation for Hypertension. He is chairman of the Research, Science and Educational Committee of the International Society of Hypertension and ex-officio member of the Council of the ESH. He is member of the Nucleus of the ESC Working Group on Pharmacotherapy and Pharmacology. Dr.Borghi has received the Talhal Zen Award from the European Society of Hypertension for his research on risk factors and cardiovascular disease and the 2022 WHL Peter Sleight Excellence Award in Hypertension Clinical Research from World Hypertension League. Professor Alta Schutte Professorial Fellow, The George Institute, Australia Principal Theme Lead: Cardiac, Vascular and Metabolic Medicine, UNSW Sydney Biography Alta (Aletta E.) Schutte is a UNSW SHARP Professor and Principal Theme Lead of Cardiac, Vascular and Metabolic Medicine in the Faculty of Medicine and Health at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; with a joint appointment as Professorial Fellow at the George Institute for Global Health. She has been the Principal Investigator of several multidisciplinary studies and has published over 300 papers on the topic of hypertension, and supervised over 85 postgraduate students. She is involved in numerous international consortia, and was one of 20 authors to join the Lancet Commission of Hypertension. She has received multiple awards including the Distinguished Woman Scientist in the Natural, Engineering and Life Sciences award, the NSTF South 32 TW Kambule Award; the British Association Medal; the Meiring Naude Medal; the AU-TWAS (African Union & The World Academy of Sciences) Award, and the 2019 African Union Kwame Nkrumah Regional Award for Scientific Excellence. She serves as Editor of the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology and on the Editorial Board of cardiovascular journals, such as Hypertension, the Journal of Hypertension, Journal of Clinical Hypertension, Journal of Human Hypertension, Current Hypertension Reports and BMC Medicine. She is a Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology and the Royal Society of South Africa; the Past President of the Southern African Hypertension Society (SAHS); and Immediate Past President of the International Society of Hypertension (ISH). Professor Neil Poulter Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health Professor of Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine. Biography Professor Neil Poulter qualified at St Mary’s Hospital, London, in 1974, following which he trained in General Medicine. He then spent 5 years in Kenya co-ordinating a collaborative hypertension research programme at the Wellcome Trust Research Laboratories in Nairobi. He gained an MSc in Epidemiology with distinction at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He was Co-PI of the WHO Oral Contraceptive case-control Study at University College London Medical School. He is co-Director of the International Centre for Circulatory Health and Director of the Imperial Clinical Trials Unit. He is an Honorary Consultant Physician and Epidemiologist at the Peart-Rose (CVD Prevention) Clinic based at Hammersmith Hospital, London, where he is actively involved in the treatment of patients with hypertension and related problems. He was President of the British Hypertension Society from 2003-2005 and is the immediate Past-President of the International Society of Hypertension. In 2008, he was elected as one of the Inaugural Senior Investigators of the NIHR and also elected as a fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2009. He has contributed chapters to several major textbooks and published over 500 papers in peer-reviewed medical journals, including co-authoring several sets of national and international guidelines. Professor Poulter was identified as being among the top 1% most cited academics in clinical medicine in 2014 (Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher report) and among the top 0.1% most cited researcher between 2008-2018 (Web of Science Group Highly Cited Researcher 2019 report). He has played a senior management role in several international trials including the ASCOT, ADVANCE, EXSCEL, DEVOTE, LEADER and CREOLE trials; other research activities include the optimal investigation and management of essential hypertension and dyslipidaemia; the association between birth weight and various cardiovascular risk factors; the cardiovascular effects of exogenous oestrogen and progesterone; the prevention and aetiology of type 2 diabetes and abdominal aortic aneurism; and ethnic differences in cardiovascular disease. He is the Chief Investigator of the May Measurement Month, an annual global blood pressure screening campaign initiated by the International Society of Hypertension. SOUTHERN AFRICAN HYPERTENSION SOCIETY
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