Public talk - Predicting heart attacks years before they happen
Tuesday, 08 April 2025, 6pm to 7.15pm
Rewley House, 1 Wellington Square, Oxford, OX1 2JA.
The NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre is organising a free public talk on the groundbreaking research taking place at the John Radcliffe Hospital where, with a combination of artificial intelligence and routine CT scans, we can predict who is likely to have a heart attack up to ten years before it happens.
The talk by Clinical Research Fellow Kenneth Chan will take place on Tuesday 8 April from 6 to 7.15 pm at Rewley House, 1 Wellington Square, Oxford, OX1 2JA. Refreshments will be served from 5.40pm. No registration required.
Some 2.3 million people in the UK are living with coronary heart disease. Computed tomography (CT) heart scans are the recommended test for people with cardiac chest pain, but these images fail to pick up half of the heart attacks that occur.
Research has shown that changes in the fatty tissue and increased inflammation around coronary vessels is linked to a higher risk of fatal heart attacks.
In this talk, Clinical Research Fellow Kenneth Chan will explain how a new device developed in Oxford combines the CT scan with AI to detect the biological processes –invisible to the human eye – that precede the narrowing of the arteries and cause heart attacks.
This CaRi-Heart device, now successfully trialled in NHS hospitals, promises to be a game-changer in our efforts to prevent cardiovascular disease.