We are delighted to announce Professor Martin Cowie, Professor of Cardiology, Imperial College London, will be speaking at the next Future of Medicine event. Join us to hear Professor Cowie speaking on “Technology and the Physician: Hope or Hype?”


This talk will review the evidence that technological advances improve health outcomes for people with heart disease, focusing on the role of remote monitoring. In theory this should improve outcomes and be a better experience for the patient and the family: expertise goes to the patient rather than the other way round. A lot has been learned in the past two decades on what the key elements for success are, and some of these lessons will be highlighted in this short presentation. Technology has always been key to the way the healthcare team works, and each generation considers itself more innovative than the one before, but it is clear that the way physicians work in 2027 is likely to be VERY different from how we work now. The talk will review the proof of concept of some technologies, the way the evidence base was built, and what encourages implementation of things that make a meaningful difference to care and the experience of that care.


Martin Cowie is Professor of Cardiology at the National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, UK and Honorary Consultant Cardiologist at the Royal Brompton Hospital, London.

A founding member and past-chairman of the British Society for Heart Failure, Professor Cowie has also been a Board Member (and Chair of the Education Committee) of the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). From November 2016, he has been a Non-Executive Director of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) in England. He has advised that organization on its heart failure guidelines and quality standards. He sits on the Cardiovascular Round Table and the EU Affairs Committee of the ESC, and leads its work in e-health, recently being appointed as Chair of the e-health Unit at the European Heart Health Institute in Brussels. He was a finalist for the NHS Digital Champion 2017.


Professor Cowie’s studies and reviews have been featured in a variety of peer-reviewed journals, including The New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, Circulation, JAMA, European Heart Journal, British Medical Journal, and the European Journal of Heart Failure. He has contributed chapters to many books, and has written a book for patients entitled “Living with Heart Failure – A Guide for Patients”. His research interests centre on the use of new technologies to improve the outcome, efficiency and experience of care for people living with heart failure. Professor Cowie is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London, and Edinburgh, and a Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology.


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