Highest honour for heart doctor Edward
Consultant cardiologist Dr Edward Rowland, who served as medical director of St Bartholomew’s Hospital until recently, has received the Mackenzie Medal from the British Cardiovascular Society.
The medal is named after Sir James Mackenzie, a Scottish cardiologist who pioneered the study of cardiac arrhythmias.
Two medals are given out each year at the Society's annual conference.
It is the Society’s highest honour.
Edward graduated from St Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical School and trained in cardiology at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School and the National Heart Hospital.
He developed a specialist interest in heart rhythm abnormalities and grew this interest at the National Heart and Lung Institute, then as director of pacing and electrophysiology at the Royal Brompton National Heart Hospital and as Sugden senior lecturer and consultant cardiologist at St George’s Hospital.
In 2008 Edward moved to the Heart Hospital (now University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street) as consultant cardiologist, where he took up the post of clinical director.
In 2012 he was appointed co-chair of a panel to establish the Barts Heart Centre, now the largest cardiovascular service in the UK, based at St Bartholomew's Hospital.
He served as medical director of the hospital from 2015 to 2022.
Edward is a founder member of the European Society of Cardiology and served as President of Heart Rhythm UK (now the British Heart Rhythm Society).
In 2020 he received the lifetime achievement award from the Arrhythmia Alliance.
Commenting at the time of Edward's retirement, Barts Health group chief medical director Alistair Chesser said: “Edward’s reputation as a clinician is second to none. He is respected because of his supportive and positive personality and because he genuinely cares about the people we look after. All of his thinking is shaped around what is best for the patient and he has no fear of speaking up when it’s the right thing to do.”
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