Barbara Casadei, MD, DPhil, FMedSci
Barbara Casadei is a British Heart Foundation (BHF) Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Oxford and Honorary Consultant Cardiologist at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust where she leads the Cardiovascular Theme of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre.
Dr Casadei graduated in Medicine (cum Laude & Gold Medal) at the University of Pavia, Italy and moved to Oxford in 1989 to undertake her clinical and research training. She was awarded the Joan and Richard Doll Fellowship at Green College in 1991, a DPhil in Cardiovascular Medicine in 1995, and a BHF Senior Research Fellowship in 2001. She is a Fellow of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences, a holder of the highest honour of the British Cardiovascular Society (The Mackenzie Medal) and the Immediate Past President (2020-22) of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). As Vice-President of the ESC, she established the Women in the ESC (WinESC) initiative and the Society’s 5-yr Strategic Plan on Research, initiated a partnership with the National Initiative on Gender, Culture and Leadership in Medicine, Brandeis University, US, and with the Said Business School of the University of Oxford (The Women Transforming Leadership Course). More recently, she established the ESC Patient Forum https://www.escardio.org/The-ESC/What-we-do/esc-patient-engagement, which has embedded patients with CVD in most ESC activities, and founded EuroHeart, an initiative supporting the assessment and improvement of quality of cardiovascular care in Europe https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehz599.
Dr Casadei is member of several Scientific Advisory Boards (e.g., Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy; LIRYC Research Institute, France; Fondation Leducq, France/USA) and Editorial Boards (e.g., Cardiovascular Research; Circulation; European Heart Journal; Circulation Research). Her research has been recognized by prizes and named lectures including, the Joan Mott Prize Lecture of the Physiological Society, the Thomas Lewis Lecture and Silver Medal of the British Cardiovascular Society; the ESC William Harvey Lecture and Silver Medal of the ESC; The Carmeliet-Coraboeuf-Weidmann Lecture of the European Heart Rhythm Association; The Brutsaert Lecture of the European Heart Failure Association, The William H Gaasch Lecture, University of Massachusetts; The Michael Sole Lecture, University of Toronto; and the Roman W. DeSanctis Visiting Professorship, Harvard Medical School.
She provides a clinical service at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust’s John Radcliffe Hospital and leads a bench-to-bedside translational research programme, which spans from clinical trials to bench-based investigation in human tissue and cells.