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Executive Committee

Past Presidents

Constitution

Working Parties

List of Members

How to become a member

Executive Committee

President:
Professor Gordon T. McInnes
Division of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences
Gardiner Institute, Western Infirmary, Glasgow, G11 6NT
Tel: 0141 211 2319   Fax: 0141 339 2526   Email: gordon.t.mcinnes@clinmed.gla.ac.uk

Vice-President:
Professor Mark Caulfield
Dept of Clinical Pharmacology, William Harvey Research Institute,
St. Barts and the London School of Medicine,
John Vane Science Centre, Charterhouse Square, London, EC1M 6BQ
Tel: 020 7882 3403   Fax: 020 7882 3408   Email: m.j.caulfield@qmul.ac.uk

Secretary:
Professor Alun D. Hughes
Dept of Clinical Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College, St. Mary's Hospital, QEQM Wing, London, W2 1NY.
Tel: 020 7886 6562   Fax: 020 7886 6145   Email: a.hughes@imperial.ac.uk

Treasurer:
Professor Francesco P Cappuccio
Division of Clinical Sciences, Clinical Sciences Research Institute,
Clinical Sciences Building, UHCW Campus,
Warwick Medical School, Clifford Bridge Road, Coventry, CV2 2DX
Tel: 02476 968661   Fax: 02476 968660   Email: F.P.Cappuccio@warwick.ac.uk

Ordinary Members:

Professor Gary McVeigh
Dept of Therapeutics, Queens University, Whitla Medical Building, 
97 Lisburn Road, Belfast, BT9 7BL
Tel: 02890 335772   Fax: 02890 438346
Email: g.mcveigh@qub.ac.uk

Professor Donald R.J. Singer
Professor of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Warwick Medical School, Warwick University
Clinical Sciences Research Institute, University Hospital Walsgrave Campus
Coventry, CV2 2DX
Tel: 02476 968649   Fax: 02476 966097   Email: donald.singer@warwick.ac.uk

Dr Alex D. Watson
Westgate Health Centre
Charleston Drive, Dundee, DD2 4AD.
Tel: 01382 667408   Fax: 01382 644807   Email: awatson@westgate1.tayside.scot.nhs.uk

Dr. Ian B. Wilkinson
Clinical Pharmacology Unit, Level 3, ACCI, Box 110,
Addenbrooke's Hospital, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 2QQ.
Tel: 01223 336898   Fax: 01223 216893   E-mail: ibw20@cam.ac.uk

Meetings Secretary:
Mrs. Gerry McCarthy
Hampton Medical Conferences Ltd.
113-119 High Street,
Hampton Hill
Middlesex, TW12 1NJ
Tel: 020 8979 8300
Fax: 020 8979 6700
Email: gmccarthy@hamptonmedical.com

BHS Information Service:
Jackie Howarth
BHS Administrative Officer
Clinical Sciences Building, Level 5, Leicester Royal Infirmary,
PO Box 65, Leicester, LE2 7LX
Tel: 07717 467 973
Email: bhs@le.ac.uk

Past Presidents

1981 - 1983	Dr. J.I.S. Robertson
1985 - 1987	Dr. J.G.G. Ledingham
1987 - 1989	Professor J.L. Reid
1989 - 1991	Professor P.S. Sever
1991 - 1993	Professor A.F. Lever
1993 - 1995	Professor P. Sleight
1995 - 1997	Professor D.G. Beevers
1997 - 1999	Professor L.E. Ramsay
1999 - 2001	Professor G.A. MacGregor
2001 - 2003	Professor B. Williams
2003 - 2005	Professor N.R. Poulter
2005 - 2007	Professor M.J Brown

Working Parties

The BHS continues to develop the following initiatives, which are organised by Working Parties who report to the Executive Committee:

► BHS Information Service and Guidelines Working Party

Chair: Professor Bryan Williams.

Committee members:
Professor Morris Brown, Professor Franco Cappuccio, Dr Mark Davis, Professor Gordon McInnes, Professor John Potter, Professor Neil Poulter, Professor Peter Sever

.  To provide information for health care professionals about hypertension (BP Measurement CD-ROM and Posters, Nurse Distance Learning Packs, ABCD Algorithm Posters, BHS Cardiovascular Medicine Research Net, Shared Care Card, Factfiles)

.  To provide hypertension guidelines and web-based timely updates in response to new trial evidence

.  To product factfiles on the management of hypertension in special situations

.  To develop a strategy, manage & support the Information Service to ensure that it delivers on the above

► BHS Educational Programmes Working Party

Co-Chairs: Professor Mark Caulfield and Dr James McLay.

Committee members:
Professor John Connell, Professor Kennedy Cruickshank, Professor Anna Dominiczak, Professor Gary Ford, Professor Alun Hughes, Dr Philip Lewis, Dr Mel Lobo, Dr Gillian Manning, Mrs Naomi Stetson

.  To develop and implement BHS Live! events

.  To supervise the organisation of UK Specialist Accreditation, BHS Primary Care Meetings, Masterclasses


► BHS BP Measurement Working Party

Chair: Dr Paul Padfield.

Committee members:
Ms Christine Carney (NHA Representative), Dr Philip Lewis, Professor Andrew Shennan, Dr George Kassianos (GP Representative), Dr Adrian Stanley, Dr Ian Wilkinson

.  To advise on the validation of blood pressure monitors

.  To be responsible for issues relating to mercury

► BHS Collaborative Research Working Party

Chair: Professor Morris Brown

Members:
Dr. Philip Lewis, Professor Tom MacDonald, Professor Graham MacGregor, Professor Gordon McInnes, Dr. Chris Palmer, Professor Peter Sever, Professor David Webb, Professor Bryan Williams

Research Network:
Professor Philip Bath, Professor Gareth Beevers, Dr. Adrian Brady, Professor Franco Cappuccio, Professor Mark Caulfield, Professor John Cockcroft, Professor John Connell, Professor Kennedy Cruickshank, Professor Anna Dominiczak, Professor Tony Heagerty, Dr. Aroon Hingorani, Professor Alun Hughes, Professor John Potter, Professor Neil Poulter, Professor Nilesh Samani, Professor Andrew Shennan, Professor Donald Singer, Dr. Alice Stanton, Dr. Ian Wilkinson

.  To design and execute de novo clinical research studies expected to
   benefit from collaboration among several centres

How to become a member

British Hypertension Society
Registered Charity No. 287635


The Society is open to hypertension researchers in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. It is limited to 250 members and includes clinicians, nurses, physiologists and other scientists.

The Annual Scientific Meetings are held every September in a University campus in the U.K. The scientific programme is compiled from refereed abstracts submitted by members of the Society and accepted abstracts are published after the meeting (currently in the Journal of Human Hypertension).

The annual subscription fee is currently £50.00. There is also a small registration fee to attend the annual scientific meeting, the remainder of the costs being covered by sponsorship.

Applications for membership are considered on an annual basis, at the Annual Business Meeting held in mid September each year. There are no formal application forms. A full curriculum vitae including a list of publications, together with supporting letters from two members of the Society, should be sent to the Secretary, no later than three months before the Annual Business Meeting, i.e. by the middle of June.

Applicants will be contacted at the end of September regarding the outcome of their application.


Nurses Hypertension Association - Enquiries regarding membership of the Nurses Hypertension Association (NHA) should be addressed to the Secretary (refer to the
contact us page).