Congratulations to Henry West (Balliol 2018, DPhil Medical Sciences) on winning the British Atherosclerosis Society’s Early Career Investigator Competition 2021.
He won the competition with his presentation entitled ‘Deep Learning Detection of Epicardial Adiposity on Cardiac CT Predicts Mortality and Cardiac Events’, given at the BAS annual virtual meeting 16–19 September 2021.
Henry West is a Clinical Research Fellow and DPhil candidate at Oxford’s Radcliffe Department of Medicine in the Translational Cardiovascular Research Group, which is working to reduce the burden inflicted by heart attack and stroke through the development of superior risk assessment tools and imaging technology. Henry’s DPhil project is concerned with novel computed tomography (CT) interpretation techniques that aim to improve the detection and clinical management of both ischaemic heart disease and stroke. ‘I knew that he was always looking for easy solutions in his research, to avoid spending endless hours in image analysis,’ said Charalambos Antoniades, Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, who leads the group. ‘Now he has developed an artificial intelligence system to perform all the image analysis for him … Genius I would say.’
Henry has also presented work at the recent European Society of Cardiology Congress in August, and is presenting further findings at the European Cardiology Update in Davos, Switzerland, in October and at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions in Boston, USA, in November.
He completed his medical science degree and medical training at the University of Tasmania, Australia, and came to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. In 2019/2020 he was Assistant Praefectus for Balliol’s graduate community.