Dr David Adlam

Dr Adlam is an interventional cardiologist and researcher in a busy metropolitan heart attack centre. He completed his BMBCH and DPhil at University of Oxford, and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. His research interests include spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD); coronary aneurysms and ectasia; cardio-oncology; and coronary optical coherence tomography (OCT).

In 2010, Dr Adlam first delved into the science of SCAD and published Management of Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection in the Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Era, in the Journal of Invasive Cardiology.

In 2013, in collaboration with a group of SCAD survivors in UK and Ireland, he launched and became clinical director of the SCAD UK/EU research initiative. This initiative has been supported by the British Cardiovascular Society and the British Cardiovascular Intervention Society. In 2016 he launched a European SCAD Study Group supported by the Acute Cardiovascular Care Association of the European Society of Cardiology.

Under Dr Adlam’s direction, the LCBRU was awarded a grant by the British Heart Foundation in January 2014, which allowed assignment of a dedicated research fellow to SCAD-related research. Further funding support has been awarded by the NIHR rare diseases translational collaboration and Beat SCAD.