Dr James Howard

Background

Dr Howard is a senior clinical lecturer at Imperial College London and honorary consultant cardiologist at Hammersmith Hospital.

He has broad expertise in assessing patients with breathlessness, chest pain, palpitations, dizziness, collapses and leg swelling. He also has expertise in assessing cardiovascular risk and has published world famous research articles about statin side effects.

He is a sub-specialist in cardiac imaging including echocardiography and cardiac MRI scanning, and he has received over a million pounds of research funding into these fields, and his ongoing work is supported generously by the British Heart Foundation.

His undergraduate training was at Trinity College at the University of Cambridge, and he was awarded a PhD from Imperial College London for using novel computational approaches to solve important problems in heart disease. His academic and clinical training was supported by a prestigious Wellcome Trust PhD Fellowship and NIHR Clinical Lectureship.

Dr Howard also has a keen interest in clinical trials and was joint first author and presenter of the SAMSON trial, published in The New England Journal of Medicine and The Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

Expertise

Research & publications

Howard JP & Wood FA, Finegold J, Nowbar A, Thompson D, Arnold A, Rajkumar C, Connolly S, Cegla J, Stride C, Sever P, Norton C, Thom S, Shun-Shin M, Francis DP.
N-of-1 Trial of a Statin, Placebo, or No Treatment to Assess Side Effects.
The New England journal of medicine 2020;383(22):2182-4

Howard JP & Wood FA, Finegold J, Nowbar A, Thompson D, Arnold A, Rajkumar C, Connolly S, Cegla J, Stride C, Sever P, Norton C, Thom S, Shun-Shin M, Francis DP.
Side Effect Patterns in a Crossover Trial of Statin, Placebo, and No Treatment.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology 2021;78(12):1210-22.

Howard, Chow, Chacko, Fontana, Cole, Kellman, Xue
Automated Inline Myocardial Segmentation of Joint T1 and T2 Mapping Using Deep Learning
Radiology. Artificial intelligence 2022;5(1):e220050

Howard JP, Stowell CC, Cole GD, Ananthan K, Demetrescu CD, Pearce K, Rajani R, Sehmi J, Vimalesvaran K, Kanaganayagam GS, McPhail E, Ghosh AK, Chambers JB, Singh AP, Zolgharni M, Rana B, Francis DP, Shun-Shin MJ.
Automated Left Ventricular Dimension Assessment Using Artificial Intelligence.
Circulation. Cardiovascular imaging 2021;14(5):e011951.

Howard JP, Fisher L, Shun-Shin MJ, Keene D, Arnold AD, Ahmad Y, Cook CM, Moon JC, Manisty CH, Whinnett ZI, Cole GD, Rueckert D, Francis DP.
Cardiac Rhythm Device Identification Using Neural Networks.
JACC. Clinical electrophysiology 2019;5(5):576-86.

Howard JP, Cook CM, van de Hoef TP, Meuwissen M, de Waard GA, van Lavieren MA, Echavarria-Pinto M, Danad I, Piek JJ, Götberg M, Al-Lamee RK, Sen S, Nijjer SS, Seligman H, van Royen N, Knaapen P, Escaned J, Francis DP, Petraco R, Davies JE.
AI for Aortic Pressure Waveform Analysis During Coronary Angiography.
JACC. Cardiovascular interventions 2019;12(20):2093-101.

Howard JP, Zaman S, Ragavan A, Hall K, Leonard G, Sutanto S, Ramadoss V, Razvi Y, Linton NF, Bharath A, Shun-Shin M, Rueckert D, Francis D, Cole G.
Automated analysis and detection of abnormalities in transaxial anatomical cardiovascular magnetic resonance images: a proof-of-concept study with potential to optimize image acquisition.
The international journal of cardiovascular imaging 2021;37(3):1033-42.

Patel R, Thong EHE, Batta V, Bharath AA, Francis D, Howard JP.
Automated identification of orthopedic implants on radiographs using deep learning
Radiology. Artificial intelligence 2021;3(4):e200183.

Ahmad Y, Madhavan MV, Stone GW, Francis D, Makkar R, Bhatt DL, Howard JP.
Sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors in patients with heart failure: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized trials.

European heart journal. Quality of care & clinical outcomes, 2021
Ahmad Y, Francis DP, Bhatt DL, Howard JP.
Renal Denervation for Hypertension: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized, Blinded, Placebo-Controlled Trials.
JACC. Cardiovascular interventions https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcin.2021.09.020