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2024

"Scientific evidence and non-scientific threats of population sodium intake reduction to prevent CVD: a case study" ESAN WHO Annual Meeting, Bern, Switzerland [2024]

"Search for causality in observational studies: the case of sleep deprivation" UHCW NHS Trust, Grand Round, Coventry [2024]

"Personal pitch. Misinformation in science: Scientific evidence and non-scientific threats" WAH, WMS, Coventry [2024]

2023

• "Monitoring population salt intake: analytical methods and worldwide status" FENS 2023: the 14th European Nutrition Conference, Belgrade, Serbia [2023]
• "Dream environment" PL4NETS 2023, The Gasol Foundation (Live webinar) [2023]
• "Scientific evidence and non-scientific threats: a case study" UHCW NHS Trust, Grand Round, Coventry [2023]
• "FOUND: Finding Obstructive sleep apnoea Using a Novel Device" UHCW NHS Trust, Grand Round, Coventry [2023]
• "Improving sleep quality and duration" ESH Satellite Symposium - Nocturnal blood pressure: methodological aspects, pathophysiological mechanisms and clinical implications. Milan, Italy [2023]
• "Policy options for a population reduction in sodium intake: scientific evidence and non-scientific threats" Seventh Biennial Championing Public Health Nutrition, Centre for Health Science and Law, Ottawa, Canada [2023]
• "Hypertension - how to detect, investigate and manage" PLT Coventry and Warwickshire GP [2023]
• "Salt intake, blood pressure and CVD" Prevention and Management of Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) in Croatia, Zagreb, Croatia [2023]
• "Salt surveillance activities" Workshop addressing salt, trans fat and sugar reduction strategies in Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia [2023]

2022

• "Sleep deprivation and cardiovascular disease" Stevo Julius Zagreb Conference, Zagreb, Croatia [2022]
• "Management of cardiovascular risk in obstructive sleep apnoea" SHARP Annual Scientific Meeting, Edinburgh, Scotland [2022]
• "Nocturnal blood pressure: risks, detection and possible benefits. Why bother & how to measure it?" British and Irish Hypertension Society Symposium, York [2022]
• "Hypertension: the silent epidemic that still runs the major clinical and economic burden" Menarini Group Symposium: sliding doors in hypertension management, ESC Congress, Barcelona, Spain [2022]
• "How sleep fuels health, resilience and performance" NHS Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust, Coventry [2022]
• "How sleep fuels health, resilience and performance" Deloitte, UK, London [2022]
• "Search for causality in epidemiology: the case of sleep" World Sleep Congress, Rome, Italy [2022]

2021

• "How to manage difficult hypertension making the most of the new guidelines" FPM online Conference Series on Advances in Clinical Medicine [2021]
• "Sleep disturbances, hypertension, and cardiovascular risk" 5th Croatian Congress on Hypertension, Zagreb [2021]
• "Tackling the challenges of nocturnal hypertension: new approach in the diagnosis and management" Live International Webinar [2021]
• "Reduction in sodium (salt) intake to reduce CVD: implications for actions in children and adolescents". Conference of the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Nutrition & Childhood ObesityLink opens in a new window, Lisbon [2021].
• "Non-scientific threats to public health policies" FPM Live SeminarsLink opens in a new window. Health Policy and Technology at 10: Session 1.1. Vaccines, Trusted Information and Fake News [2021]
• "Therapeutic inertia: cause and impact against achievement of optimal treatment" Joint ESH-ISH On-Air Meeting 2021 (Topic Workshop on Hot Issues) [2021]
• "Patient population at risk for cardiac events related to nocturnal hypertension" Joint ESH-ISH On-Air Meeting 2021 (Mini-Symposium) [2021]
• "Circadian patterns, sleep apnea and non-dipping blood pressure: what is the connection?" Night-time blood pressure in daily home practice, Live and On-demand webinar [2021]
• "Hypertension: new Guidelines" UHCW NHS Trust Virtual Clinical Series, webinar [2021]
• "Salt consumption: does it really matter?" Key-Note Speaker. Launch of NATRIJOD SURVEY: salt and iodine consumption in Lithuanian population: national recommendations. Live webinar [2021]
• "The 'Four Imperatives' of population salt reduction". WHO webinar. Accelerating salt reduction in Europe: launch of a country support package to reduce population salt intake in the WHO European Region [2021]

2020

• "Sleep and cardio-metabolic risk" Cardiovascular benefits of a healthy life, Live webinar [2020]
• "The 'Four Imperatives' of population salt reduction". Key-note Lecture at 20th Panhellenic Congress of HypertensionLink opens in a new window, Athens, Greece [2020].
• "How does sleep disturbance affect night time blood pressure?" Optimization of nocturnal blood pressure assessment and treatment - Innovation beyond ABPM, Live and On-demand webinarLink opens in a new window [2020].

2019

• "Sleep and cardio-metabolic risk – a new dimension for prevention and management" German Hypertension League, Berlin [2019]

• "NICE Hypertension Guidelines for Adults: outside in" British and Irish Hypertension Society Annual Meeting, Birmingham [2019]

• "Role of governments in food reformulation and monitoring of food composition and consumption" WHO Round table on Food Product Reformulation for Health - focusing on sugar, salt and trans fatty acids, Ashgabat, Turkmenistan [2019]

• "Salt reduction in the UK and importance of monitoring" WHO Round table on Food Product Reformulation for Health - focusing on sugar, salt and trans fatty acids, Ashgabat, Turkmenistan [2019]

• "Sleep and cardio-metabolic risk: a new dimension for prevention and management" ESC Congress, Paris [2019]
• "Sleep and cardio-metabolic risk: a new dimension for prevention and management" ESH Congress, MIlan [2019]

• "Parallel session 3: NCD surveillance" WHO European High-level Conference on Noncommunicable Diseases, Ashgabat, Turkmenistan [2019]

• "Parallel Session 1: Salt" WHO European High-level Conference on Noncommunicable Diseases, Ashgabat, Turkmenistan [2019]

• "Sleep disturbances and cardio-metabolic risk" British Cardiovascular Society Annual Conference, Manchester [2019]
• "May Measurement Month 2017" Public Health England Annual Conference, Manchester [2019]

2018

• "Sleep disruption, shift-work and health consequences" Chrono-nutrition: circadian clocks, mealtimes and metabolic disorders, Royal Society of Medicine, London [2018]
• "Sleep deprivation and cardio-metabolic disease" DLR, Cologne, Germany [2018]
• "Effects of sleep deprivation" Living with narcolepsy, Royal Society of Medicine, London [2018]
• "OMRON Academy programme beyond borders" BIHS Annual Scientific Meeting, Cambridge [2018]
• "Keynote: The science of salt and health: addressing recent controversy" 10th Meeting of WHO European Salt Action Network, Rome, Italy [2018]
• "Republic of Moldova and Montenegro: new data on sodium consumption from national surveys" 10th Meeting of WHO European Salt Action Network, Rome, Italy [2018]
• "Sodium and potassium, blood pressure and cardiovascular disease" ESH Summer School, Les Diablerets, Switzerland [2018]
• "Cardio-metabolic effects of sleep disturbances: implications for obesity and hypertension" Clinical care of obesity and hypertension (EASO, ISH, BIHS, ASO), London [2018]
• "Salt: update on impact of salt on CVD burden and global initiatives to lower salt intake" EuroPrevent, Ljubljana, Slovenia [2018]
• "Sleep duration and cardiovascular risk: what's the evidence from observational studies?" EuroPrevent, Ljubljana, Slovenia [2018]

• "Sleep duration and quality: Relationships with glucose levels and opportunities for intervention" Diabetes UK, ExCel, London [2018]

• "Keynote Speech: Salt intake, blood pressure and cardiovascular disease" Indian Society of Hypertension, New Delhi, India [2018]

2017

• "Salt targets - is low salt better?" Hypertension: state of the art 2017, Royal College of Physicians, London [2017]
• "Sodium and cardiovascular disease" Ethnicity and hypertension in a changing Europe, ESH Satellite Symposium, Florence, Italy [2017]
• "Keynote Address: Healthy sleep" British Sleep Society, Brighton [2017]
• "Short sleep, mortality and morbidity: epidemiological findings" Is today's society sleep deprived? Royal Society of Medicine, London [2017]
• "The Salt Affair" From arterial hypertension to heart disease, Federico II University of Naples, Naples, Italy [2017]

2016

• 'Keynote Speech: Sodium and potassium intake for stroke prevention: evidence and opportunities" presented at the 10th Annual Stroke Update Conference, Brighton [2016]
• "Sleep, Health & Society: the contribution of epidemiology" presented at the 2016 Sleep Summit, London O2 [2016]
• "Why is there controversy about the benefit of moderate dietary salt reduction in populations?" presented at Pulse of Asia, Seoul, South Korea [2016] (Programme)
• "Lowering salt intake and cardiovascular risk reduction: what is the evidence?" presented at the 26th Scientific Meeting of the ISH, Seoul, South Korea [2016]
• "Low salt intake saves lives" presented at the Annual Meeting of the British Hypertension Society, Dun Laoghaire, Dublin, Republic of Ireland [2016]

• "Hypertension control: perspectives for Africa" presented at the European Society of Hypertension, Paris, France [2016]

• "Salt consumption and cardiovascular disease: from etiology to prevention" presented at the 53rd Congress of the ERA-EDTA, Vienna, Austria [2016]

• "Salt: myths and reality" presented at the 19th Hellenic Congress of Nephrology, Kalamata, Greece [2016]
• "State of the Art: Salt and health outcomes" presented at the WHO European Salt Action Network, Lisbon, Portugal [2016]
• "Methods to measure salt intake at individual level: gold standard, proxy and calibration need" presented at the WHO European Salt Action Network, Lisbon, Portugal [2016]

2015

• "Sleep and health" presented at Wageningen University, The Netherlands [2015]
• "Population salt reduction in the UK: history and evaluation" presented at the Norwegian Salt Partnership Launch Meeting, Oslo, Norway [2015]
• "The ‘good buy’ diet: what works in practice" presented at the Annual Meeting of the British Hypertension Society, Stratford-upon-Avon [2015]
• "State of the Art in environmental determinants of blood pressure" presented at the European Society of Cardiology, London [2015]
• "Reduction in salt consumption in Europe: a 'preventive' and 'economic' imperative" presented at the Meeting of Expert Reference Group for European NCD Action Plan, Copenhagen, Denmark [2015]
• "Global burden of hypertension" presented at Hypertension: State of the Art 2015, RCP in London [2015]
• "Salt and inequality" presented at the WHO European Salt Action Network in Athens, Greece [2015]
• "The role of salt reduction in patients with diabetes" presented at the 25th European Meeting on Hypertension and Cardiovascular Protection (ESH) in Milan, Italy [2015]
• "Sodium and potassium intake: facts, issues and controversies. Nutritional and public health perspectives" presented at Nestle' Research Centre, Lausanne, Switzerland [2015]

2014

• "The silent killer - but does salt reduction affect mortality?" presented at the ESC (European Society of Cardiology) Meeting, Barcelona, Spain [2014]

• "Sleep disturbances and cardio-metabolic risk: evidence and opportunities" presented at the Aging & Sleep International Meeting, Lyon, France [2014]

• "Southeast Asian Diaspora" presented at the Joint Meeting ESH-ISH Hypertension 2014, Athens, Greece [2014]

2013

• "Sleep deprivation and chronic disease: an epidemiological view" presented at the Sleep Medicine Grand Round, Harvard Medical School in Boston, USA [2013].
• "Cardiovascular and other effects of salt consumption" presented at the Annual Meeting of the Turkish Society of Hypertension & Renal Disease in Antalya, Turkey [2013].
• "Is disordered sleep a behavioral risk factor for type 2 diabetes?" presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Diabetic Association in Chicago, USA [2013].

2012

• "Policy options for a population reduction in salt intake to prevent cardiovascular disease" presented at the Annual Meeting of the Turkish Society of Hypertension & Renal Disease in Antalya, Turkey [2012].

2011

• "The epidemiology of hypertension and current treatment challenges" presented at the 1st UK Symposium on Renal Denervation, RCP, in London [2011]

2009

• "Sleep disturbances and risk of type 2 diabetes" presented at the 2nd Annual Meeting of the Diabetes & Cardiovascular Disease Study group of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) in Cluj-Napoca, Romania [2009]
• "Salt and chronic disease" presented at the Annual Meeting of the Unilever Health Institute in Brussels, Belgium [2009]
• "Sleep and obesity: does the egg come before the chicken?" presented at the Spanish Society of Endocrinology & Diabetes in Zaragoza (Spain) [2009]

2008

• "Salt intake, blood pressure and cardiovascular disease" presented at the Italian Society of Hypertension (SIIA) in Rome (Italy) [2008]
• "Reduction in medical error rates when implementing a 48h EWTD-compliant rota for junior doctors in the UK: a single-blind intervention study" presented at the NHS Workforce National Final Countdown in London [2008]
• "Sleep deprivation and chronic disease" presented at the British Hypertension Masterclass in Warwick [2008]
• "Short sleep duration is associated with hypertension only among women: a population-based study" presented at the European Society for Sleep Research in Glasgow [2008]
• "Who fails to achieve blood pressure and lipid targets - patients or doctors?" presented at the British Hypertension Society Primary Care Meeting in Manchester [2008]

2007

• "Body size and blood pressure: a collaborative analysis of 18,072 participants from Africa and the African diaspora" presented at the American Heart Association Council on Epidemiology & Prevention in Orlando (USA) [2007]
• "A prospective study of change in sleep duration: association with mortality in the Whitehall II cohort" presented at the British Sleep Society in Cambridge [2007]
• "Ethnic influences on stroke risk" presented at the British Hypertension Society Masterclass in Leicester [2007]

2006

• "Blood pressure reduction with statins: meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials" presented at the European Society of Hypertension in Madrid (Spain) and the British Hypertension Society in Cambridge [2006]

2005

• "Non-pharmacological prevention and management of hypertension. A global perspectiveLink opens in a new window" presented at the 3rd Baltic-Nordic Meeting on Hypertension in Vilnius (Lithuania)[2005]
• "Nutrition and Blood Pressure in West AfricaLink opens in a new window" presented at the State University of New York at Buffalo (USA) [2005]

2004

• "Blood Pressure Control by Home MonitoringLink opens in a new window" presented at the European Society of Hypertension in Paris [2004]
• "Metabolic syndrome and renal sodium handling in three ethnic groups living in EnglandLink opens in a new window" presented at the European Society of Hypertension in Paris [2004]