Prof Tony  Gershlick

Consultant cardiologist since 1989. Made Professor of Interventional Cardiology at University of Leicester 2008. Major interest has been in acute cardiology and intervention for coronary artery disease. Was the first in the UK to undertake clinical brachytherapy, the first to implant a drug eluting stent and the first to treat a patient in the UK with stem cells from the leg muscle and the first to implant a Bio-absorbable stent.
Lead faculty for multiple major International meetings. Research interests over the years have covered the basic science/pre-clinical area as well as the application of proven basic concepts as applied to and assessed in the clinical arena. As long ago as the early 1990s my lab investigated ways of delivering drugs loaded onto the stents themselves in order to reduce the unwanted tissue response. In 1996 we published a benchmark pre-clinical study in Circulation that demonstrated the efficacy of drugs delivered locally in this way. Current pre-clinical projects include assessing whether loading of stents with HIF- (a growth factor switch molecule) for treating difficult CTOs. I devised, ran and analysed the REACT trial which has recently (Dec 2005) and was co-PI of the recently NEJM published STREAM Trial. Current UK ISS include CvLPRIT (to be presented at ESC 2014) and "MVO" I have held > 4 million in research grants Clinical research has also included being PI for 6 National and 3 International studies and the UK PI for a further 10 International trials

I have served on Department of Health Committee on primary angioplasty (NIAP) as well as on the same data-analysis Committee. I have sat on NICE x 6, the BHF Programme grants Committee and currently on the MRC DPFS translational research panel
I have sat as Senior Judge British Cardiac Society Young Investigators Award (2002), Chairman Awards Committee Junior Cardiologists Research Prize (2005), Scientific Information Officer British Cardiovascular Intervention Society, British Heart Foundation Projects Grants Committee (2006), Faculty member National and International Meetings, British Cardiac Society chairman sub-committee on the future of non-invasive imaging, Advisor to the European Guidelines Committee on percutaneous coronary angioplasty (2005), European representative to the American Heart Association Guidelines committee (2006), writing group European STEMI Guidelines .Programme committee British Cardiac Society 2006-2010 R7D Chair BCIS 2008-2012