BHI Constitution

The current Bristol Heart Institute Constitution was drawn up in October 2005 by the Steering Group, and circulated to all members for comment.

The major aims of the BHI are:

  1. To facilitate the establishment of Bristol as an internationally-recognised centre of excellence for cardiovascular research (clinical and basic science).
  2. To coordinate and stimulate further collaborative research, especially in bridging basic to clinical science, within the university faculties that currently perform cardiovascular research; This will be facilitated by organization of research away days, seminars and a new website; the latter will act as a data base
  3. Maintain and develop further a multidisciplinary research environment leading to increased funding, and high impact publications that will attract additional high calibre personnel particularly in areas of strategic importance. Key issues for the immediate future include: physiological genomics, translational biology and stem cell research
  4. Attract capital and personnel investments to: expand research techniques, adopt the newest technologies and further enable cardiovascular research;
  5. Capitalise on new research initiatives offered by external funding agencies
  6. Increase the awareness of the University, funding agencies and general public to the scale of expertise in cardiovascular science by production of high quality publicity
  7. Increase the public understanding and awareness of the importance of cardiovascular research through dedicated sections of the website and direct outreach to schools, community groups and the general public.

Download the full constitution, including management review mechanisms (pdf doc)

The BHI Steering group was formed in Spring 2005, after a ballot of BHI group leaders.
The Cardiovascular Facilitator was appointed in September, 2005.
The committee currently consists of:

Chair: Professor Raimondo Ascione
Member: Professor Gianni Angelini
Member: Professor Andrew Newby
Member: Professor Julian Paton
Member: Professor Alastair Poole
Ex officio members:
Prof. Gene Feder, Primary Care Trust
Prof. Ian Day, School of Social and Community Medicine
Prof. Paolo Madeddu, School of Clinical Sciences
Prof. Gavin Murphy, School of Clinical Sciences
Dr. John Albarran, University of the West of England
Dr. Andrew Skyrme-Jones, North Bristol NHS Trust
Dr. Peter Wilde; Director of Special Services, UHBristol NHS Foundation Trust 
Prof. Lars Sundstrom, Severnside Alliance for Translational Research (SARTRE)