Cardiac & Vascular Physiology

Professor Cathal Breen, Edinburgh Napier University, UK

I am board-certified by the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) as a Clinical Scientist of Cardiac Physiology. I specialise in cardiac physiology and technology-enhanced learning. I have almost 20 years of experience working in academia, educating health and medical students at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and supervising Masters and PhD projects. My PhD focused on the acquisition of expertise within the clinical domain and my published work demonstrates the impact smartphone applications, clinical decision support systems and augmented reality make on health professions education learning efficiency and knowledge retention. I currently lead the simulation and clinical skills strategy at Edinburgh Napier which facilitates Nursing, Midwife, Allied Health Professions and Social Work professions and hold an Honorary Research Consultant position, NHS Lothian, Scotland.

Dr Kamalan Jeevaratnam, University of Surrey, UK

My research interests include integrative physiology, novel therapeutic agent discoveries, human animal interface research as well as medical education. My present work concerns the use integrative physiology techniques to elucidate mechanisms of cardiac arrhythmia and developing risk stratification strategies for clinical practice.

I was previously the Royal College of Surgeons Ireland, lead in physiology at the School of Medicine, PU-RCSI based in Kuala Lumpur. As an academic, I have previously delivered anatomy and physiology lectures and practical session to both medical and veterinary students at the International Medical University, University Putra Malaysia and the University of Cambridge, UK. I am also an examiner on the surgical MRCS examinations.