Professor James Rudd

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  • Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Cambridge
  • Honorary Consultant Cardiologist, Addenbrooke's Hospital
  • Deputy Chief Medical Information Officer, Addenbrooke's Hospital
Available to supervise doctoral students
Available for consultancy
Professor James Rudd

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James is an academic cardiologist at the University of Cambridge and an honorary consultant at Addenbrooke’s Hospital. His research interests range from using imaging of the heart and blood vessels to test the efficacy of new drugs to research based on electronic healthcare records aimed at predicting risk of hospital admission.

James has a wide range of research collaborations, including with the Department of Public Health and Primary Care, the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics and the Judge Institute (all in Cambridge) with links further afield in Edinburgh and New York. He is passionate about science communication and hosts the bi-weekly BMJ Heart podcast (https://heartbmj.podbean.com/), where he interviews guests about all aspects of cardiovascular medicine. In 2017, he was a British Science Association Media Fellow at The Guardian where he worked as a science journalist over the summer (https://www.theguardian.com/profile/james-rudd).

Research

My name is James Rudd. I'm a doctor, scientist and technophile living in Cambridge. Exiled Northerner. Amateur guitar player. Long-suffering Grimsby Town FC supporter.

I am a Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and Honorary Consultant in Cardiology at Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the University of Cambridge. 

My research interests are in risk prediction using imaging (CT, MRI and PET). I apply biomechanical and mathematical methods, including AI to refine risk on top of imaging and demographic factors. I work across disease states, including stroke, ischaemic heart disease, peripheral vascular disease, aortic aneurysm, rheumatoid arthritis and pulmonary hypertension. I am the clinical lead at the EPSRC centre for the mathematics of information in healthcare.

After medical training in UK and Australia, my PhD at the University of Cambridge described the first use of FDG PET for atherosclerotic plaque imaging and was funded by a British Heart Foundation Clinical Research Fellowship.

I was awarded a British Heart Foundation International Fellowship to work with Professor Zahi Fayad at Mount Sinai Medical Centre in New York. I was a British Atherosclerosis Society Young Investigator in 2003, and the Society of Nuclear Medicine Young Investigator in 2006. Collaborative work between my group and colleagues at Edinburgh University describing vascular NaF PET imaging for predicting heart attack has won the 2011 RSNA Young Investigator Prize and the 2012 Parmley prize from the American College of Cardiology. My PhD students have been successful at winning national and international research awards, including a second Parmley prize from the American College of Cardiology for work describing a new way of quantifying vascular inflammation in 2018.

I was a member of the Programme Committee of the British Cardiovascular Society from 2009-2015 and a member of the European Society of Cardiology Working Group of Nuclear Cardiology and CT since 2007. I am a member of the SHAPE scientific advisory board and the MRC-MHRA PET Imaging Advisory Committee. My research is/has been supported by HEFCE, the Wellcome Trust, the British Heart Foundation, the Evelyn Trust, the Academy of Medical Sciences, EPSRC and the NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre.

I am an Associate Editor and the Digital Media Editor of the BMJ Journal 'Heart', where I host their podcasts. I enjoy science outreach - here are my appearances on the Naked Scientists radio show. I was a 2017 British Science Association Media Fellow. I worked as a Science Correspondent at The Guardian. See a full list of the articles I published there.

Since 2021, I have been the deputy CCIO at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, working closely with the Epic team to improve the usability of the system.

Teaching and supervision

Available to supervise doctoral students

Collaborators

  1. Dr Elizabeth Warburton

    Dr Elizabeth Warburton

    • Consultant physician in stroke medicine
  2. Dr James Peters

    Dr James Peters

    • BHF Career Development Fellow, University of Cambridge
  3. Dr Jason Tarkin

    Dr Jason Tarkin

    • Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Career Development Fellow
  4. Dr Joseph Cheriyan

    Dr Joseph Cheriyan

    • Affiliated Associate Professor
  5. Dr Mohammed M Chowdhury

    Dr Mohammed M Chowdhury

    • BHF Clinical Research Fellow
  6. Dr Nicholas Evans

    Dr Nicholas Evans

    • Senior Clinical Lecturer researching vascular/brain imaging & frailty in stroke
  7. Dr Stephen Hoole

    Dr Stephen Hoole

    • Consultant Cardiologist

  8. Dr Tian Zhao

    • BHF Intermediate Fellow in Cardiovascular Medicine and Honorary Interventional Cardiology Consultant
  9. Dr Umar Sadat

    Dr Umar Sadat

    • Clinical Lecturer
  10. Dr Zhongzhao Teng

    Dr Zhongzhao Teng

    • Senior Research Associate
  11. Elizabeth Le

    Elizabeth Le

    • MB PhD Student
  12. Mr Patrick Coughlin

    Mr Patrick Coughlin

    • Consultant Vascular Surgeon
  13. Nichola Figg

    Nichola Figg

    • Laboratory Manager
  14. Prof Anthony Davenport

    Prof Anthony Davenport

    • Professor of Cardiovascular Pharmacology
  15. Professor Angela Wood

    Professor Angela Wood

    • Professor of Health Data Science
  16. Professor Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

    Professor Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

    • Head of the Cambridge Image Analysis group (CIA)
  17. Professor Emanuele Di Angelantonio

    Professor Emanuele Di Angelantonio

    • Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and Donor Health
  18. Professor Hugh Markus

    Professor Hugh Markus

    • Professor of Stroke Medicine
  19. Professor Ian Wilkinson

    Professor Ian Wilkinson

    • Professor of Therapeutics
  20. Professor John Danesh

    Professor John Danesh

    • BHF Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine
  21. Professor Martin Bennett

    Professor Martin Bennett

    • BHF Professor of Cardiovascular Sciences
  22. Prof Martin Graves

    Prof Martin Graves

    • Head of MR Physics and Radiology IT
  23. Professor Nick Morrell

    Professor Nick Morrell

    • BHF Professor of Cardiopulmonary Medicine
  24. Professor John Aston

    Professor John Aston

    • Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research
  25. Professor Willem Ouwehand

    Professor Willem Ouwehand

    • Emeritus Professor of Experimental Haematology, Director of Research
  26. Professor Ziad Mallat

    Professor Ziad Mallat

    • BHF Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine