Chase, Dr. Alex J.

Biography

From the County of Kent in England, Alex Chase studied medicine at St John’s College, Oxford University with clinical studies at St Bartholomew’s Hospital (”Barts”), London graduating in 1993. During his specialist training in interventional cardiology he undertook a PhD in the mechanisms underlying atherosclerotic plaque rupture as a British Heart Foundation Scholar for which he was awarded the Young Investigator’s Award at the European Society of Cardiology in 2001. His other published research interests include the pleiotrophic effects of statins and inflammation in atherosclerosis. In 2005 he won the first Boston Scientific International Fellowship to focus on radial access angioplasty at the Victoria Heart Institute Foundation where he undertook the MORTAL study presented here. He is currently an interventional cardiologist in Bristol, UK.

Presentations:

MORTAL Study: Mortality Benefit of Trans-Radial Angioplasty (794 KB)