Removed out of date forms and added: Allowances and Expenses arrangements during the COVID-19 Pandemic (amalgamated July 2021). Member,ESC Clinical Practice Guideline Committee(2014-2016); work included implementation recommendations, self-testing modules & assessment of quality/audit standards. Peer reviewer of 8 ESC guidelines since 2012. Review Coordinator, 2015 ESC ventricular arrhythmia guidelines. Lip GYH, Freedman B, de Caterina R, Potpara TS. Stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation: past, present and future comparing the guidelines and practical decision-making. Thromb Haemost 2017;117:1230–9. Chugh SS, Havmoeller R, Narayanan K, et al. Worldwide epidemiology of atrial fibrillation: a global burden of disease 2010 study. Circulation 2014;129:837–47. Part of aBMJ Writing group (2013) forNHS Shared Decision Making in thedevelopment of a patient decision aid for stroke prevention for AF oratrial flutter.

Chao TF, Lip GYH, Liu CJ, et al. Relationship of aging and incident comorbidities to stroke risk in patients with atrial fibrillation. J Am Coll Cardiol 2018;71:122–32. Lip GY, Nieuwlaat R, Pisters R, Lane DA, Crijns HJ. Refining clinical risk stratification for predicting stroke and thromboembolism in atrial fibrillation using a novel risk factor-based approach: the euro heart survey on atrial fibrillation. Chest. 2010 Feb;137(2):263-72. doi: 10.1378/chest.09-1584. Epub 2009 Sep 17 [Original description of CHA 2DS 2-VASc score, cited >3100 times]. Lip GYH. The ABC pathway: an integrated approach to improve AF management. Nat Rev Cardiol 2017;14:627–8. December 2016, Opening Ceremony Lecture at the Icelandic Society of Internal Medicine Congress, Reykjavik.October 2016: SWBH ‘Trust Beacon Service award’ for Cardiology, as ‘an internationally-recognised centre for atrial fibrillation’, and SWBH ‘Excellence in Research’ award for my Atrial Fibrillation research team, which topped the SWBH league table in 2015-16 in terms of numbers of patients recruited to research studies on the NIHR portfolio, as well as major contributions to the delivery of the Trust’s R&D plan including enhanced integration with primary care and the translation of research into better and safer clinical care. However, most of the studies regarding the ABC pathway were performed in DOAC-treated AF populations whereas VKAs are still widely used in several countries globally. In such patients, quality of anticoagulation and appropriate TTR is central. Recently, we have reported that the ABC pathway adherent patients had better TTR, and more ABC criteria fulfilled increased the probability of achieving good TTR 26. Thus, ABC pathway management is not only associated with a lower number of clinical outcomes but also results in better anticoagulation control, which in turn is associated with a better prognosis. Regular peer review for research grantsfrom national/international funders, including research councils from various countries.

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Diabetes - defined as current use of insulin or anti-diabetic drugs, or a fasting glycemia >125mg/dL (7mmol/L). It usually goes with high values of hemoglobin A1c. Directed letter: school children's visits (SCVs) interim arrangements in response to coronavirus (COVID-19), European Societyof Cardiology and European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA): Chairman (2011-2015; and still remain on Executive Steering Committee, as ‘Past Chairman’ 2016-) of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC)EuroObservationalResearch Programme on Atrial Fibrillation (EORP-AF), definingthe epidemiology and management of AF in Europe. AF patient counselling/education methodology from TREAT trial [PMID: 24040156] has been implemented into outpatient clinical services and adopted by other units. This approach is ‘good practice example’ in NICE NOAC (new anticoagulants) Implementation Consensus (2014). On the congress programme committee for the ESC (the world’s largest cardiology congress, 2016-), as well as Cardiostim and EHRA-Europace meetings (2011-), both being the major scientific meetings of EHRA. Chair of the organisation and programme committee for the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh Consensus Conference on Atrial Fibrillation, March 2012.

September 2017, Polish Cardiac Society medal and awarded honorary membership of the society. XXI International Congress of the Polish Cardiac Society -Katowice, Poland. The 2020 European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Clinical Practice Guidelines for AF summarise and evaluate the available evidence from 1,492 references to provide an overview of contemporary AF diagnosis, management and research. 3 Given the complexity of AF and its poorly understood mechanisms, the management of AF patients requires a holistic, multidisciplinary approach, including individual assessment, patient preferences and active involvement in decision-making. The guidelines introduce a novel, simplified, holistic approach to care for patients with AF ( Figure 1), incorporating screening, diagnosis and treatment for effective, integrated management. 3 These AF guidelines should consider the clinical evaluation and the choice of the best treatment strategies for each individual patient with AF. 3 Kaatz S, Ahmad D, Spyropoulos AC, Schulman S. Definition of clinically relevant non-major bleeding in studies of anticoagulants in atrial fibrillation and venous thromboembolic disease in non-surgical patients: communication from the SSC of the ISTH. J Thromb Haemost. 2015;13(11):2119-26. Greenville Army Air Base opened in 1942 during World War II. It was later known as Greenville Air Force Base. In 1951 it was renamed Donaldson Air Force Base, in honor of Captain John O. Donaldson, a World War I flying ace. The U.S. Air Force announced Donaldson's closure in 1962. The City and County of Greenville took title of the facilities in 1964 and named it Donaldson Center Industrial Air Park. [3] Facilities and aircraft [ edit ]The ABC pathway has been tested in retrospective post hoc analyses of clinical trial cohorts 6, 7, nationwide claims data 8, observational cohorts 9, 10, and one prospective cluster randomized trial, the mAFA-II trial 11. In all studies, there was general consistency that ABC pathway adherent care was associated with a reduction in clinical outcomes, and in the long-term extension cohort from the mAFA-II trial there was good adherence and persistence 12. Despite the ABC pathway provides a simple decision-making framework to enable consistent equitable care, the proportion of adherent patients is overall suboptimal, and this is associated with a higher risk of major adverse outcomes 13, 14. The main limitation of the study lies in its observational nature, with a Caucasian-based population and single-center design. Another potential limitation is patient selection since we included only patients starting OAC therapy with VKA for the first time. Previous studies have shown that the initial period of OAC is characterized by an increased risk of adverse events, particularly bleeding ones, and during the first 3 months of VKA therapy, which may have some influence on the results 37, 38, 39. However, our dataset was collected prospectively, under a careful follow-up. Thus, all events (even very early ones) were recorded. Importantly, patients lost to follow-up were excluded for the present analysis. Lip GYH. The ABC pathway: an integrated approach to improve AF management. Nat Rev Cardiol. 2017;14(11):627-8.