Monday 4th November 2024
Speakers: Dr Jim Moore, Dr Ben Corden
o To review the risk assessment and primary prevention of cardiovascular disease
o To discuss the presentation and management of heart failure including referral pathways
Dr Jim Moore
Dr Moore was the President of the Primary Care Cardiovascular Society (2019 – 2023).
He studied medicine in Edinburgh before moving to Gloucestershire to work as a GP principal. He has an interest in cardiology and cardiovascular disease, particularly those aspects that are relevant to primary care.
Dr Moore was involved in the development of the community-based Gloucestershire Heart Failure service where he continues to work as a GP with a special interest (GPwSI).
He was a member of The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Chronic Heart Failure Guideline committee (2018), was on the Board of the British Society for Heart Failure (from 2008 until recently) and is a member of the National Heart Failure Audit Domain Expert Group.
He has provided cardiovascular clinical support to local commissioning organisations over two decades and more recently to emerging cardiac networks in the South-West. He is a Clinical Lead for the National Cardiac Pathways Implementation Programme and provides support for the National Cardiovascular Prevention Programme.
Dr Moore is the Primary Care Lead for the West of England Integrated Cardiac Clinical Network.
Dr Ben Corden
Consultant Cardiologist
Dr Ben Corden is a Consultant Cardiologist at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and at the Bristol Heart Institute. His sub-specialty interests are inherited cardiovascular conditions (ICC), heart failure and cardiac MRI.
Dr Corden studied medicine at the University of Cambridge and was a cardiology trainee in the North West London rotation. He spent time in research and training in cardiac MRI in Singapore and Bristol and undertook subspecialist fellowship training in inherited cardiovascular conditions at Barts.
In Gloucester, Dr Corden helps to run the heart failure service and has subspeciality clinics in heart failure and inherited cardiovascular conditions. At Bristol Heart Institute, he reports cardiac MRI and runs an inherited cardiovascular disease clinic.
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