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Previous ASMs
Year Venue Sir George Pickering Lecture Prize Winners
2023 P&J Live, Aberdeen Anthony Heagerty (Manchester) Winners 2022
2022 Barbican, York Bryan Williams (London)
Mechanism-driven insights and treatment of hypertension
Winners 2022
2021 Hilton Brighton Metropole, Brighton Thomas MacDonald (Dundee)
Preventing Cardiovascular Disease
2021 Winners
2019 Edgbaston Park Hotel and Conference Centre, Birmingham Gianfranco Parati (Milan)
Cardiovascular Effects of Acute Exposure to Hypobaric Hypoxia at High Altitude. From Pathophysiology to Clinical Recommendatoins
2019 Winners
2018 Robinson College
Cambridge
Rory Collins (Oxford)
Post – Truth Medicine: Death and Disability by Disinformation
2018 Winners
2017 University of Strathclyde
Glasgow
Anna Dominiczak (Glasgow)
Genomics of hypertension & precision medicine
2017 Winners
2016 Royal Marine Hotel
Dublin
Paul Whelton (USA)
Clinical trials, practice guidelines, policy and performance indicators
2016 Winners
2015 Holiday Inn
Stratford
Neil Poulter (London)
Aetiology, prevention & management of cardiovascular risk factors: anecdotes, interpretation & misinterpretation
2015 Winners
2014 Royal College of Surgeons
Edinburgh
Morris Brown (Cambridge)
From treatment to cure: the mutation of hypertension by modern imaging & genetics
2014 Winners
2013 University of Greenwich
London
John Hall
Pathophysiology of hypertension in obesity/metabolic syndrome
2013 Winners
2012 Queens’ College
Cambridge
T Unger (Maastricht)
Always look on the bright side of the RAS
2012 Winners
2011 Queens’ College
Cambridge
Peter Sever (London)
Treatment of hypertension in the 21 st century
2011 Winners
2010 Queens’ College
Cambridge
Freidrich Luft (Berlin)
Physiological studies in the renin-angiotensin system
2010 Winners
2009 St John’s College
Cambridge
Michael Marmot (London)
Social determinants & the global cardiovascular epidemic
2009 Winners
2008 Queens’ College
Cambridge
S MacMahon (Sydney)
Hypertension: time to give it up?
2008 Winners
2007 St John’s College
Cambridge
P Stewart (Birmingham)
Liquorice and all sorts of steroids – the erosion of ‘essential’ hypertension
2007 Winners
2006 Churchill Cambridge GA Fitzgerald (Philadelphia)
The cardiovascular consequences of cyclooxygenase inhibition
2006 Winners
2005 Queens’ College
Cambridge
Graham MacGregor (London)
Salt – Neptune’s gift?
2005 Winners
2004 St John’s College
Cambridge
P Libby (Boston)
Atherosclerosis & inflammation
2004 Winners
2003 St John’s College
Cambridge
Giuseppe Mancia (Italy)
ABPM. A must for antihypertensive drug studies?
2003 Winners
2002 St John’s College
Cambridge
D Harrison (Atlanta)
Oxidative stress & hypertension
2002 Winners
2001 Keble College
Oxford
H Brunner (Lausanne)
Antiotensin II, salt & hypertension: claims & facts
2001 Winners
2000 Queens’ College
Cambridge
E Barrett-Connor (La Jolla)
High BP in older adults: Epidemiologic insights from the Rancho Bernardo study
2000 Winners
1999 Strathclyde University
Glasgow
RP Lifton ( New Haven)
Salt & blood pressure: new insights from human genetics studies
 
1998 Keble College
Oxford
CE Morgensen (Aarhus)
Microalbuminuria & early blood pressure elevation
 
1997 Wills Hall
Bristol
J Menard (Paris)
Combined blockade of the RA system: a physiological analysis for a pharmacological intervention
 
1996 St John’s College

Cambridge
Peter Sleight (Oxford)
The role of baroreflexes & the autonomic nervous system in health & disease
 
1995 Strathclyde
University Glasgow
R Palmer (Beckenham)
The discovery of nitric oxide & its significance in the control of BP
 
1994 Royal College of Surgeons
Dublin
B Folkow (Goteborg)
Integration of hypertension research in the era of molecular biology
 
1993 Queens’ College
Cambridge
AG Shaper (London)
Population perspective son Blood pressure & hypertension
 
1992 Keble College
Oxford
P Corvol (Paris)
Clinical & molecular genetics of hypertension
 
1991 Royal College of Surgeons
Dublin
Tom G Pickering (New York)
Ambulatory monitoring & the definition of hypertension
 
1990 King’s College
Cambridge
G Bianchi (Milan)
The role of the kidney in primary hypertension
 
1989 Baliol College
Oxford
VJ Dzau (Boston)
Molecular biology in hypertension research: the brave new world
 
1988 Royal College of Physicians
Edinburgh
AF Lever (Glasgow)
Slow mechanisms in the pathogenesis of hypertension
 
1987 Emmanuel College
Cambridge
LJ Beilin (Perth)
Role of dietary factors in the pathogenesis & management of hypertension
 
1986 Madgalen College
Oxford
MJ Mulvany (Aarhus)
The resistance vasculature in hypertension
 
1985 Downing College
Cambridge
J Stamler (Chicago)
Nutritional approaches to the primary prevention & treatment of hypertension
 
1984 Exeter College
Oxford
M Schalekamp (Rotterdam)
What regulates auto-regulation?
 
1983 King’s College
Cambridge
E Haber (Boston)
Which inhibitors will give us true insight into what renin really does?
 
1982 New College
Cambridge
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1981 Queens’ College
Cambridge
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