Michael Henein
Professor of Cardiology, Sweden, Consultant Cardiologist, UK
Professor Michael Henein is a Consultant Cardiologist based at The Harley Street Clinic, offering all aspects of general cardiology and echocardiography, including transthoracic, stress and transoesophageal echo as well as carotid scanning, with broad experience in cardiac CT scans.
Following 15 years at the Royal Brompton Hospital, he spent the last 5 years in his capacity as Clinical Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London, leading the Echocardiography Department at the Royal Brompton Hospital as Consultant in Cardiology and Echocardiography between 2001 and 2006. Following that, Michael Henein accepted the role of OverLakare and Hon. Professor at Umea University as part time, along with a professorship at Canterbury Christ Church University (CCCU), Kent, UK. At CCCU he established an MSc course in cardiology, having tutored and graduated 100 students with quality MSc theses. This was followed by his formal appointment as the Professor of Cardiology at Umea University and Heart Centre. These positions provided unique opportunities to establish a number of research projects and programs which lead to 21 PhD theses completed (17 principle supervisor), and others on the way, with most students from abroad; UK, Ireland, Kosovo, Greece, Italy, Nigeria, Egypt and China. All graduated students are currently holding important clinical and academic positions.
Currently the most active projects Michael Henein's Team is working on are coronary calcification, heart failure and valvular heart disease. In addition, the academic environment and scientific collaboration between departments within Umea University assisted him in publishing over 430 papers in peer reviewed journals, writing and editing 6 textbooks and many chapters, 2 of them in Oxford Textbook of Medicine, pericardial diseases and valvular heart diseases.
Finally, he is also a Guest Editor to a number of journals including International Journal of Molecular Sciences, the Journal of Diagnostics, Journal of Clinical Medicine and Frontier of Cardiovascular Medicine.