Professor Francesco P Cappuccio

MBBS, MD, MSc (Epid), DSc, DLSHTM, FRCP, FFPH, FBHS, FESC, FAHA

Cephalon Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine & Epidemiology
Honorary Consultant Cardiovascular Physician
Head, World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Nutrition
Director, European Centre of Excellence in Hypertension and Cardio-Metabolic Research

Immediate Past-President, British and Irish Hypertension Society

Researcher ID: D-3028-2009

ORCID-ID: 0000-0002-7842-5493

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Profile

Franco moved to Warwick in July 2005 to take up the newly established Cephalon Chair in Cardiovascular Medicine & Epidemiology. He is a cardiovascular physician, a clinical epidemiologist and a public health expert. After his medical degree in Naples, he moved to Britain where he trained at Charing Cross Hospital, St George's Hospital Medical School and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in London. In 2000 he became Professor of Clinical Epidemiology & Primary Care at St George's, University of London.His main interests are in the prevention, detection and management of hypertension and its complications of the heart, brain, kidneys and the circulation. His research interests are the epidemiology of cardiovascular disease, nutrition and health, metabolic abnormalities and cardiovascular risk, risk in ethnic minorities, both in developed and developing countries. Franco heads up a multi-disciplinary research group with a number of research objectives: to develop and establish a programme of national and international cardiovascular epidemiology, to develop and establish a significant national and international programme of research into Sleep, Health and Society, to facilitate clinical research into sleep disorders, to assist the development of undergraduate and postgraduate education into sleep medicine and its impact on health and society.

Qualifications

1981	MB, BS (Hons) University of Naples
1984	MD (Hons) University of Naples
1993	MSc (Epidemiology) University of London
1996	MRCP Member of the Royal College of Physicians of London
1996	CCST in General Medicine
1997	DLSHTM University of London
1999	FRCP Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London
2000	MFPHM (now MFPH) Member of the Faculty of Public Health
2002	European Diploma of Hypertension Specialist (ESH)
2006	FFPH Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health
2007	FAHA Fellow of the American Heart Association
2012	DSc University of Warwick
2014	FBHS Fellow of the British and Irish Hypertension Society
2017	FESC Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology

Current Roles

2006- Technical Adviser, World Health Organization (WHO)
2011-20 Member, WHO Expert Advisory Panel on Nutrition
2013- Chair, PRESERVE Trial - Data Monitoring Committee
2015- Associate Editor, NMCD journal
2015- Member, TIME Study Independent Data Monitoring Committee
2016- Chair, Information Service & Guidelines Working Party, British & Irish Hypertension Society
2017-19 President, British & Irish Hypertension Society
2017-20 Expert Adviser, NICE Centre for Guidelines (CfG)
2018- Chair, HYVET-2 Trial Steering Committee
2018- Member of the Organising Committee, Joint Meeting ESH-ISH 2020 Glasgow
2018- Member of the Financial Committee, Joint Meeting ESH-ISH 2020 Glasgow
2019- Academic Lead, INSPIRE Programme

Awards

2003 2002 RCGP and Boots The Chemists Research Paper of the Year Award (Royal College of General Practitioners)
2003 I.S.H.I.B. Distinguished Researcher Award for 2003 (International Society of Hypertension in Blacks)
2005 40th Anniversary Gold Medal of the Lithuanian Society of Cardiology
2007 International Fellowship of the American Heart Association (FAHA)
2008- European Society of Hypertension Centre of Excellence in Hypertension & Cardio-Metabolic Research
2008- World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Nutrition
2019 World Hypertension League Recognition of Excellence Award in Dietary Salt Reduction

Membership of learned societies

National

Association of Physicians of Great Britain & Ireland (APGB&I)
British and Irish Hypertension Society (BIHS)
British Sleep Society (BSS)
National Heart Forum NHF (individual member)

International

European Society of Hypertension (ESH)
American Society of Hypertension (ASH)
American Sleep Association (ASA)

American Heart Association (AHA)
Council on High Blood Pressure of the American Heart Association (AHA)
Council on Epidemiology & Prevention of the American Heart Association (AHA)
International Epidemiological Association (IEA)
International Society of Hypertension in Blacks (ISHIB) (Scientific Planning C'tees 1997; 2001; 2003)

European Society of Cardiology (ESC)
Council on Hypertension of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC)

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Useful Links

LATEST NEWS

Salt: it's more dangerous than you think. We eat far too much of it - and it's taking a toll on our health. Jennie Agg asks the experts how we can cut back The Times (19/05/2020)
BBC One: Food - Truth or Scare. Paralympian Danny Crates gets to the bottom of controversial reports suggesting that rather than eat less salt, we should be eating more. Prof Cappuccio is interviewed (06/02/2017)
The Average Human Project
Eating too little salt may increase your risk of a heart attack or stroke, claims controversial new research. Daily Mail (20/05/2016)
Lancet attacked for publishing study claiming low-salt diet could kill you. The Independent (20/05/2016)
The salt debate: does consuming less really save lives? Prof. Cappuccio in The Conversation and in The Independent (03/03/2016)
What about the studies that show a “u-shaped curve,” where too much sodium is bad, but too little may be bad too? (Feb 2016)
Prof. Cappuccio is included in the Top Italian Scientists listed by the VIA (Virtual Italian Academy)(Dec 2015)
Prof. Cappuccio elected Vice-President of the British Hypertension Society (Sept 2015)
Salt: are you eating too much? Channel 4 Dispatches (29/06/2015)

Sleep and Health News

Chi non dorme fa un azzardo. E il cuore paga. La Repubblica (10/09/2019)
Lack of sleep leads to obesity in children - Press release - Newsweek (18/04/2018)
The Truth about Slim People - Channel 4 (08/11/2017)

C4 Pic

The Truth about Slim People (Daily Mail)(03/11/2017)

Dealing with insomnia

BBC Radio 4: Woman's Hour (05/05/2016)

Sleeping late? Napping a lot?

CNN (04/09/2015)

KSL.com (04/09/2015)

Report from ESC in London

Mail Online (31/08/2015)

Why a long night's sleep may be bad for you?

BBC News(24/03/2015)

Sleeping: the 8-hour myth.

BBC World Service (21/02/2015)

FREE Public Engagement Seminar: Sleep and Cognition in the life-course: from development to decline (27/06/2014)
Little or poor sleep may be associated with worse brain function when aging (26/06/2014)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7858921.stm (30/01/09)
guardian.co.uk/society/2008/dec/30/junior-doctors-working-hours-bma (30/12/2008)
sleep.med.harvard.edu/news/
Safety and the flying doctor (25/01/2008)

Diet and Health News

Is the sodium debate a legitimate scientific disagreement or a “controversy” manufactured by industry? (Oct 2015)
Call for government to curb the production and sale of cheap salty junk food (11/09/2015)
WHO Advisor warns against production and sale of cheap salty snacks (11/09/2015)
Dietary sodium content, mortality and risk for cardiovascular events in older adults (19/01/2015)
"Old issues, new promises" - Professor Francesco Cappuccio responds to plans to limit fat, salt and sugar in children's food (16/01/2015)
Social inequalities in salt consumption remain despite national drop in salt intake over last 10 years (27/08/2014)
There’s no debate: lowering salt cuts strokes and heart attacks, read more in The Conversation (15/04/2014)
Sale: stop all'abuso, read more in La Repubblica (12/11/2013)
Italian Ministry of Health Symposium on Salt and Health (14/06/2010)
There's no doubt about the health dangers of salt, read more in the New Scientist (01/05/2010)
Salt and Cardiovascular Disease (28/04/2007)
Salt as a vehicle for fortification (2008)
Reducing salt intake in populations (2007)

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