Professor Ahmet Fuat was a GP in Darlington, County Durham for 37 years, where he was CVD and Research Leads for Darlington Primary Care Network and Darlington GP Federation. He joined Oberoi Consulting as Medical Director in September 2023 and also works as an Honorary Con-sultant Lipidologist/GPSI within the diabetes and endocrinology team at County Durham and Dar-lington Foundation Trust, running a secondary prevention and genetic lipid clinic.

He has been a GPSI Cardiology for over 25 years having undertaken a Postgraduate Diploma in Cardiology at Bradford University graduating with distinction. He went on to be a tutor on the course for many years teaching on HF, HVD, AF and IHD. He started the first one stop diagnostic and inte-grated heart failure clinic in the UK in 2002 with local colleagues.

His PhD by research in heart failure diagnosis and management including work on natriuretic pep-tides generated several publications that have informed guidelines and led to the award of an Hon-orary Professorial Chair at Durham University. He has contributed to various NICE and ESC CVD and HF guidelines, and RCGP CKD/AKI toolkit.

He has held and holds various roles in CVD and research including the being past President, edu-cation and research leads of the Primary Care Cardiovascular Society (PCCS) which he was in-strumental in reforming, and previous Lipid and Heart Failure primary care lead for North East and North Cumbria Academic Health Science Network. He sits on the NHSE CVD Prevention Clinical Leadership group and NHSE expert advisory group for Heart Failure and Heart Valve disease. He was a founder member of CaReMe UK representing the PCCS. He is currently Vice Chair of the HEART UK Lp(a) Task Force, and advisor to Pumping Marvellous, a Heart Failure patient charity.

He has a passion for medical education and remains an active lecturer, tutor and researcher. He is on the editorial boards of the British Journal of Cardiology and Primary Care Cardiovascular Jour-nals and a peer reviewer for most high impact Cardiovascular journals and research bodies. His work in community cardiology has been recognised with Fellowships from the RCGP, RCP London and RCP Edinburgh, ESC and the PCCS.

He has led many quality improvement initiatives over the years in HF, AF, Lipids, hypertension, dia-betes and CKD. His work on HF was included in their BHF blueprint for HF. Much of this work was carried out using Oberoi digital audit platforms as has been replicated by colleagues across the UK, benefiting patients and practices positively.