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The eligible NILEMDO®/NUSTENDI® patient – who are they?
Discover which patients bempedoic acid (+/- ezetimibe) would be an appropriate therapeutic option
Prof Derek Connolly and Prof Terry McCormack
Date: 01/07/2025
6 mins
Speaker bios
Professor Derek Connolly
Consultant Cardiologist and Director of R&D at Birmingham City Hospital
Derek is a Consultant Cardiologist at Birmingham City Hospital, Birmingham UK and holds honorary academic positions at both the University of Birmingham Institute of cardiovascular sciences and at Aston University medical School. Derek trained in Cambridge, London, Edinburgh and San Diego where he was a Carnegie Scholar. Derek has a first class degree in Pharmacology from the University of Edinburgh where he was the Brunton medallist and Keasbey Bursary holder. Derek’s PhD in molecular cardiology is from the University of Cambridge. Derek is the Chief or Primary Investigator of multiple large trials in Cardiovascular medicine. Derek developed one of the UKs first primary angioplasty programmes and one of the UKs largest cardiac CT programmes. He has been a council member of the PCCS since it’s refoundation.
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Professor Terry McCormack
GP in Whitby, North Yorkshire, Professor of Primary Care Cardiovascular Medicine at Hull York Medical School (HYMS) and Immediate Past President of the British and Irish Hypertension Society
Terry McCormack is a GP in Whitby, North Yorkshire, Professor of Primary Care Cardiovascular Medicine at HYMS and Immediate Past President of the British and Irish Hypertension Society. He is a primary care researcher, particularly interested in hypertension, lipids and anticoagulation. In 2020 he was the winner of the HYMS Undergraduate Medicine Phase II and III Teacher of Excellence Award. Guideline work includes the NICE Hypertension, Perioperative Care and Venous Thromboembolism guideline committees and the AAGBI/BHS preoperative BP guideline. He is an editor of the British Journal of Cardiology and a Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology.
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Abbreviations
AAGBI, Association of Anaesthetics of Great Britain and Ireland; BHS, British Hypertension Society; BP, blood pressure; CT, clinical trial; GP, General Practitioner; HYMS, Hull York Medical School; NICE, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence; PhD, Doctor of Philosophy; PCCS, Primary Care Cardiovascular Society; R&D, research and development; UK, United Kingdom.
Job code: UK/BIL/08/25/0004|Date of preparation: September 2025