Ninian N Lang MB, ChB, PhD
About Ninian N Lang MB, ChB, PhD
"Ninian Lang is Professor of Cardiology and Cardio-Oncology. He serves as an Honorary Consultant Cardiologist at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital and the Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre. His clinical and academic work focuses on cardio-oncology and heart failure.
He runs the West of Scotland cardio-oncology service and integrates this clinical practice with an active research programme. His clinical trial and translational research in cardio-oncology relates to vascular and myocardial injury induced by established and novel anti-cancer therapies.
He is a graduate of the University of Edinburgh Medical School (BSc [Neuroscience], 1st class Hons, 1998; MBChB 2001, Annandale Gold Medal in Clinical Surgery). He undertook the majority of his clinical training in cardiology in Lothian. He was awarded the Bristol-Myers Squibb Cardiovascular Prize Fellowship to undertake his PhD research (University of Edinburgh; awarded 2009). He was subsequently appointed as Lecturer in Cardiology at the University of Edinburgh, followed by a fellowship in advanced heart failure and cardiac devices at the Scottish Advanced Heart Failure Service. He was appointed as a consultant cardiologist in 2014 before moving to a substantive position with the University of Glasgow. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (Edinburgh) and of the European Society of Cardiology. He is an Associate Editor of the JACC:CardioOncology."
