Department of Medicine
University College London Hospital & Medical School
London, United Kingdom
From Laboratory Bench to Hospital Bedside: Can the Diabetic Heart be Pre-
and Post-conditioned? (Oct. 7, 4:25 PM)
Presentation Summary
Derek M. Yellon is Professor of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology at University College London (UCL), a position he has held since 1993. He is also Director of the Hatter Cardiovascular Institute and Head of the Centre for Cardiology at UCL Hospitals and Medical School. He was recruited to UCL in 1989 to direct the Academic Department of Cardiology and establish the Hatter Cardiovascular Institute. Professor Yellon was also instrumental in establishing a second Hatter Cardiovascular Institute at the Medical School of the University of Cape Town to which he is Director and Chairman of the Institute board.
After obtaining his PhD in 1978 from the University of Bath he became a Research Fellow with at St Thomas’s Hospital in London, where he remained until 1989 before joining University College London.
Professor Yellon is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology, the European Society of Cardiology, the Royal College of Physicians, the International Society for Heart Research, and the American Heart Association. In 1994 he was awarded a DSc for his “substantial contribution to the knowledge of cardiovascular disease and treatment.” He has published in excess of 350 original research papers and edited 17 books. His main interest include angina; myocardial protection; the pathophysiology of cardioprotection in settings of diabetes, ischemia, and reperfusion injury; the molecular aspects of adaptation to ischemic injury; and myocardial pre- and post-conditioning in both basic and clinical arenas.
