Executive Committee | British & Irish Hypertension Society

The Executive Committee serves a dual function, acting as both the elected Board of Trustees and the executive leadership team, ensuring continuity, strategic oversight, and operational delivery.

Professor Phil Chowienczyk Card Title Card Text Card Title Card Text Card Title Card Text President 2026 - 2028 Phil Chowienczyk is Professor of Cardiovascular Clinical Pharmacology at the School of Cardiovascular Medicine & Sciences, King’s College London. Phil worked in biomedical engineering before studying medicine at Guy’s Hospital Medical School. His research relates to the in vivo assessment of cardiovascular structure and function in humans with the aim of elucidating mechanisms leading to arterial disease and interventions to prevent/treat arterial disease. Phil currently leads a programme on stratified mechanisms in hypertension. He retains an interest in biomedical engineering in relation to non-invasive assessment of cardiovascular function.	Professor Dame Anna Dominiczak Card Title Card Text Card Title Card Text Card Title Card Text Vice President 2026 – 2028 Anna Dominiczak is Chief Scientist (Health) for the Scottish Government and Regius Professor of Medicine at the University of Glasgow. She is internationally recognised for her leadership in cardiovascular medicine, precision medicine, and health innovation. Her research focuses on hypertension, cardiovascular genomics, and precision medicine. She has published over 550 peer-reviewed papers, holds an h-index of 124, and has secured over £100 million in research funding. Professor Dominiczak has held leadership roles in major scientific societies, including President of the European Society of Hypertension and the Association of Physicians of Great Britain and Ireland. She was awarded a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2016 Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to cardiovascular and medical science.	Dr Philip Lewis Card Title Card Text Card Title Card Text Card Title Card Text Secretary 2026 - 2028 Philip Lewis is the Senior Cardiologist at the Alexandra Hospital and at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust and an expert in preventive cardiology and therapeutics including cholesterol and weight management and was the lead cardiologist supervising the Stockport Cardiovascular Prevention Screening Project in which over 200,000 residents had screening for heart disease risk factors, and which informed the current NHS Health Checks Service. He is the most clinically experienced blood pressure specialist in the North West, actively involved in university research on measurement of blood pressure, teaching and advising on matters of hypertension at a national level. He has been described as a “Super Forecaster” who is able to use advanced therapeutic approaches to treat cardiovascular disease using approaches before they have reached the level of routine use. and to cope with complex cases where several other health conditions coexist.
Dr Luca Faconti Card Title Card Text Card Title Card Text Card Title Card Text Treasurer 2023 - 2027 Luca Faconti is a Clinical Lecturer in the Department of Clinical Pharmacology at King's College London and Honorary Consultant at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust. Luca completed his medical training in Pisa (ESH Excellence Centre) and started his involvement in the BIHS as the Young Investigator Representative (2019 to 2022)	Dr Helen Warren Card Title Card Text Card Title Card Text Card Title Card Text Ordinary Member 2024 - 2027 Helen is a Senior Lecturer at the William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary University of London (since 2013), working in the field of cardiovascular genetics. Her research focuses on the genetic discovery for blood pressure, risk prediction for hypertension, and pharmacogenetics for the response to both antihypertensive drugs and statins. She is the lead genetic analyst for ASCOT (Anglo-Scandinavian Cardiac Outcomes Trial) and BRIGHT (British Genetics of Hypertension study). Helen is a senior leader of the International Consortium of Blood Pressure, the Genomic Investigation of Statin Therapy Consortium, and International Consortium for Antihypertensive Pharmacogenetics Studies. She has been a BIHS member since 2014, a Trustee & Executive Committee member since 2024, and a Collaborative Research Committee member since 2017.	Dr Manish Saxena Card Title Card Text Card Title Card Text Card Title Card Text Ordinary Member 2024 - 2027 Manish Saxena, is a Cardiovascular Physician and Hypertension Specialist at Barts Health NHS Trust and Queen Mary University London. His research interest is in developing novel therapies to improve patient outcomes and prevention of cardiovascular/metabolic diseases. He is UK lead on academic and commercial studies with pharmaco-therapy and devices in dyslipidaemia, obesity, hypertension, heart failure, diabetes, inflammation and anti-coagulation. Manish works closely with Health Research Authority as an expert member and National Research Ethics Committee Chair. He is Deputy Director for research at Barts Health NHS Trust and QMUL. He has been recognised as leading Principal investigator by NIHR.
Dr Ryan McNally Card Title Card Text Card Title Card Text Card Title Card Text Ordinary Member 2024 - 2027 Ryan McNally is a postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Vascular Risk and Surgery, School of Cardiovascular Medicine and Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine. Ryan's postdoctoral research project was a joint clinical study between King’s College London and the University of Cambridge investigating salt-sensitivity in the pathogenesis of hypertension. He is now conducting research into personalised medicine for hypertension at the King's Health Partners Centre for Translational Medicine and is working as a pharmacist at St. Thomas' Hospital. Ryan is also member of the European Society of Hypertension Young Investigator Committee.	Dr Tehreem Butt Card Title Card Text Card Title Card Text Card Title Card Text Ordinary Member 2026 - 2028 Tehreem Butt is a consultant in Acute Medicine and Hypertension at Mid and South Essex University Hospitals NHS trust.

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