Professor Melvin Lobo

 Professional experience

• More than 35 years of experience
• Consultant Cardiovascular Physician and Clinical Hypertension Specialist, London Bridge Hospital (present)
• Consultant Cardiovascular Physician and Clinical Hypertension Specialist, The Harley Street Clinic, London (present)
• Consultant Cardiovascular Physician and Clinical Hypertension Specialist, Barts Health Trust (present)
• Director of Blood Pressure Clinic, Barts Health Trust (present)

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 Sub-specialties

• Hypertension (high blood pressure)
• Hypotension (low blood pressure)
• Variable blood pressure
• Long COVID
• Circulatory disorders
• Light-headedness
• Fainting
• Postural tachycardia syndrome (PoTS)

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 Positions in public associations

• Chief Investigator, EnligHTN II Study
• Chief Investigator, ROX Coupler Study and ROX Global Registry
• Principal Investigator, Symplicity HTN-II Study
• Special Advisor to NICE: Renal Denervation / Baroreflex Activation
• Chair of the Barts Health Trust Joint Prescribing Group

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 Teaching posts

• NHS Professor in cardiovascular medicine, William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary University, London (present)

 Education

• MB ChB Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery, University of Manchester Medical School (1989)
• PhD Thesis (Vascular Biology), University of London (2000)
• FRCP (London), Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians London (2010)
• FBHS, Fellow of the British Hypertension Society (2015)
• Clinical Hypertension Specialist, European Society of Hypertension (2009)
• Cardiovascular and general internal medicine specialist training
• Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics specialist training
• FESC, Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology (2015)
• FACC, Fellow of the American College of Cardiology (2018)

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 Publications and conferences

• Narkiewicz K, Ratcliffe L, EC H, Briant L, Chrostowska M, Wolf J, Szyndler A, Hering D, Abdala AP, N M, AE B, Durant C, Lobo MD, PA S, NK P, Leiter J, ZJ E, AK N, Paton J. Unilateral carotid body resection in resistant hypertension: a safety and feasibility trial. JACC Basic to Translational Science. 2016 Aug 29;1(5):313-324
• Lobo MD, Sobotka PA, Pathak A. (2016) Interventional Procedures and Future Drug Therapy for Hypertension. European Heart Journal. 2016 doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehw303
• Mahfoud F, Böhm M, Azizi M, Pathak A, Durand Zaleski I, Ewen S, Tsioufis C, Andersson B, Blankestijn PJ, Burnier M, Chatellier G, Gafoor S, Grassi G, Joner M, Kjeldsen SE, Lüscher TF, Lobo MD, Lotan C, Parati G, Redon J, Ruilope L, Sudano I, Ukena C, Leeuwen E, Volpe M, Windecker S, Witkowski A, Wijns W, Zeller T, Schmieder RE. Proceedings from the European Clinical Consensus Conference For Renal Denervation – Considerations on Future Clinical Trial Design. European Heart Journal, 1–9. http://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehv192
• Lobo, M.D., Sobotka, P. A., Stanton, A., Cockcroft, J. R., Sulke, N., Dolan, E., et al. (2015). Central arteriovenous anastomosis for the treatment of patients with uncontrolled hypertension (the ROX CONTROL HTN study): a randomised controlled trial. The Lancet 2015 385; 9978: 1634-41 http://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(14)62053-5
• Lobo, MD, de Belder MA, Cleveland T, Collier DJ, Dasgupta I, Deanfield J, Kapil V, Knight C, Matson M, Moss J, Paton JFR, Poulter N, Simpson IA, Williams B, Caulfield MJ. Joint UK Societies 2014 Consensus Satement on Renal Denervation. Heart 2015;101:10-16 doi:10.1136/heartjnl-2014-307029

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 Professional membership

• Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London
• Fellow of the British Hypertension Society
• Member of the European Society of Hypertension
• Member of the British Pharmacological Society
• Fellow of the American College of Cardiology

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