Clinical Care

Within the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, many of our senior staff hold Honorary Consultant Contracts with the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust. These Consultants work in specialised areas of medicine including Cardiology, Cardiac Imaging and Clinical Genetics. They are actively involved in patient care, often leading specialist services such as the Inherited Heart Disease Service. In addition, they are active scientists and are therefore uniquely placed to undertake translational research, translating their laboratory research into the clinical setting. This is facilitated through the Oxford Biomedical Research Centre (BRC), a partnership between the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and the University of Oxford, which is funded by the NIHR.

Within CVM, we have two state of the art clinical facilities:

• The Cardiovascular Clinical Research Facility (CCRF), which provides a dedicated, staffed clinical research environment with particular expertise in echocardiography, vascular assessment and clinical physiology.
• The Oxford Centre for Clinical Magnetic Resonance Research (OCMR), uses magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) to study the heart, brain and other organs. In addition to a comprehensive research programme, they provide a specialist clinical service for cardiac MRI.

In addition, we have close links with the Oxford Acute Multidisciplinary Imaging and Interventional Centre (AMIIC)