Professor Ahmet Fuat
Honorary Professor, Durham University · GP & GPSI Cardiology (25+ years) · National Programme Director, CliniLink
A Darlington GP for 40 years and one of the UK's leading voices in primary care cardiology. Professor Fuat established the UK's first one-stop integrated heart failure clinic in 2002, earned his PhD researching heart failure diagnosis and natriuretic peptides, and has shaped NICE and ESC guidelines on CVD and heart failure — with his HF work featured in the BHF Blueprint for Heart Failure.
Fellow of the RCGP, RCP London, RCP Edinburgh, the ESC and the PCCS, he sits on the editorial boards of the British Journal of Cardiology and the Primary Care Cardiovascular Journal. He teaches because translating evidence into everyday practice is where patient care is won.
Professor Saqib Mahmud
FRCP (Edin) FRCP (Glasg) FRCP (London) FRCGP
Professor Saqib Mahmud specialises in all aspects of diabetes with its complexities and co-morbidities. He is passionate about preventing diabetes associated complications and prevention of strokes and heart attacks by early intervention in diabetes and providing a legacy effect which will prevent complications in the future. Diabetes lead at his practice since 2005, he has spent 15 years raising clinical standards, teaching healthcare professionals and junior doctors, and refining his expertise at international congresses. He also serves as a certified diabetes educator and Early Action in Diabetes UK champion
Dr Mohamed Elnaggar
Clinical Lipid Lead, South Cumbria & Lancashire · Lead, Lipid Service at UHMBT · Principal Investigator
The clinician who established and now leads the Lipid Service at UHMBT, and was recently appointed Clinical Lipid Lead for South Cumbria and Lancashire. Dr Elnaggar develops regional lipid-management pathways, is Principal Investigator on multiple clinical trials, and is a regular speaker on emerging lipid-lowering therapies and cardiometabolic prevention.