Professor Graeme Houston qualified in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University in 1983 before studying Anatomy at King’s College, London. He then went on to study Clinical Medicine at St Thomas’s Hospital London gaining MB Bchir in 1987. His junior hospital posts were in the Western Infirmary in Glasgow, where he developed an interest in the expanding field of Radiology and Image Guided Therapy in the emerging specialty of Interventional Radiology. Following a fellowship in Vancouver, Canada he was appointed NHS Consultant Radiologist in Dundee in 1995. He developed the clinical MRI and Interventional Radiology services in Tayside (1995-2015) and, increasingly active in research, he was appointed SINAPSE Professor of Clinical Imaging in the University of Dundee in 2009. Nationally, he has served on NHS Scotland Advisory Groups (SIGN Guidelines, Imaging Strategy, National Procurement, Scottish Radiological Society), Medical Research Council EME Board and Prioritisation Groups, Royal College of Radiology Scottish Standing Committee and Research Committee, and is a Fellow of the Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe.

My main research interests are imaging and intervention in Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes, working with colleagues in the University of Dundee, NHS Tayside and more widely through the Tayside Medical Science Centre (TASC).

Jagdeep S. S. Singh, Amir Fathi, Keeran Vickneson, Ify Mordi, Mohapradeep Mohan, J. Graeme Houston, Ewan R. Pearson, Allan D. Struthers, Chim C. Lang: Research into the effect Of SGLT2 inhibition on left ventricular remodelling in patients with heart failure and diabetes mellitus (REFORM) trial rationale and design. Cardiovascular Diabetology 12/2016; 15(1)., DOI:10.1186/s12933-016-0419-0 Jonathan R. Weir-McCall, Phey Ming Yeap, Carla Papagiorcopulo, Kerrie Fitzgerald, Stephen J. Gandy, Matthew Lambert, Jill J.F. Belch, Ian Cavin, Roberta Littleford, Jennifer A. Macfarlane, Shona Z. Matthew, R. Stephen Nicholas, Allan D. Struthers, Frank Sullivan, Shelley A. Waugh, Richard D. White, J. Graeme Houston: Left Ventricular Noncompaction. Journal of the American College of Cardiology 11/2016; 68(20)., DOI:10.1016/j.jacc.2016.08.054 Jonathan R Weir-McCall, Anu Kamalasanan, Deidre B Cassidy, Allan D Struthers, Brian J Lipworth, J Graeme Houston: Assessment of proximal pulmonary arterial stiffness using magnetic resonance imaging: effects of technique, age and exercise. 10/2016; 3(1)., DOI:10.1136/bmjresp-2016-000149 Fabiola Fernández-Gutiérrez, Malgorzata Wolska-Krawczyk, Arno Buecker, J Graeme Houston, Andreas Melzer: Workflow optimisation for multimodal imaging procedures: a case of combined X-ray and MRI-guided TACE. Minimally invasive therapy & allied technologies: MITAT: official journal of the Society for Minimally Invasive Therapy 08/2016;, DOI:10.1080/13645706.2016.1217887 Jonathan R Weir-Mccall, Kerrie Fitzgerald, Carla J Papagiorcopulo, Stephen J Gandy, Matthew Lambert, Jill J F Belch, Ian Cavin, Roberta Littleford, Jennifer A Macfarlane, Shona Z Matthew, R Stephen Nicholas, Allan D Struthers, Frank M Sullivan, Shelley A Waugh, Richard D White, J Graeme Houston: Prevalence of unrecognized myocardial infarction in a low–intermediate risk asymptomatic cohort and its relation to systemic atherosclerosis. European Heart Journal – Cardiovascular Imaging 08/2016;, DOI:10.1093/ehjci/jew155 Jonathan R Weir-McCall, Deirdre B Cassidy, Jill JF Belch, Stephen J Gandy, J Graeme Houston, Matthew A Lambert, Roberta C Littleford, Janice Rowland, Allan D Struthers, Faisel Khan: Whole body cardiovascular MRI for the comparison of atherosclerotic burden and cardiac remodelling in healthy South Asian and European adults. British Journal of Radiology 06/2016; 89(1065)., DOI:10.1259/bjr.20160342 James Ritchie, Darren Green, Tina Chrysochou, Janet Hegarty, Kelly Handley, Natalie Ives, Keith Wheatley, Graeme Houston, Julian Wright, Ludwig Neyses, Nicholas Chalmers, Patrick Mark, Rajan Patel, Jon Moss, Giles Roditi, David Eadington, Elena Lukaschuk, John Cleland, Philip A. Kalra: Effect of renal artery revascularization upon cardiac structure and function in atherosclerotic renal artery stenosis: cardiac magnetic resonance sub-study of the ASTRAL trial. Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 06/2016;, DOI:10.1093/ndt/gfw107 Stephen J Gandy, Matthew Lambert, Jill Belch, Ian Cavin, Elena Crowe, Roberta Littleford, Jennifer A MacFarlane, Shona Z Matthew, Patricia Martin, R Stephen Nicholas, Allan Struthers, Frank Sullivan, Shelley A Waugh, Richard D White, Jonathan R Weir-McCall, J Graeme Houston: 3T MRI investigation of cardiac left ventricular structure and function in a UK population: The tayside screening for the prevention of cardiac events (TASCFORCE) study. Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging 05/2016; 44(5)., DOI:10.1002/jmri.25267 Jonathan Weir-McCall, Deirdre B Cassidy, Jill JF Belch, Stephen J Gandy, J Graeme Houston, Matthew A Lambert, Roberta Littleford, Janice Rowland, Allan D Struthers, Faisel Khan: 014 Patterns of early atherosclerosis formation and cardiac remodelling in healthy adults of south asian and european descent. Heart (British Cardiac Society) 05/2016; 102(Suppl 5)., DOI:10.1136/heartjnl-2016-309680.14 Jonathan R Weir-McCall, Kerrie Fitzgerald, C Papagiorcopulo, Stephen J Gandy, Matthew Lambert, Jill JF Belch, Ian Cavin, Roberta Littleford, Jennifer A MacFarlane, Shona Z Matthew, R Stephen Nicholas, Allan D Struthers, Frank Sullivan, Shelley A Waugh, Richard D White, J Graeme Houston: 015 Prevalence, pattern and significance of late gadolinium enhancement in a healthy asymptomatic cohort. Heart (British Cardiac Society) 05/2016; 102(Suppl 5)., DOI:10.1136/heartjnl-2016-309680.15 JR Weir-McCall, A Kamalasanan, DB Cassidy, AD Struthers, BJ Lipworth, JG Houston: 24 Assessment of the effects of technique on pulmonary arterial pulse wave velocity measurement. Heart (British Cardiac Society) 05/2016; 102(Suppl 3)., DOI:10.1136/heartjnl-2016-309668.24 C Tanner, Y Zur, K French, G Samei, J Strehlow, G Sat, H McLeod, G Houston, S Kozerke, G Székely, A Melzer, T Preusser: In vivo validation of spatio-temporal liver motion prediction from motion tracked on MR thermometry images. International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery 04/2016;, DOI:10.1007/s11548-016-1405-4 Elaine Rutherford, Jonathan R. Weir-Mccall, Rajan K. Patel, J. Graeme Houston, Giles Roditi, Allan D. Struthers, Alan G. Jardine, Patrick B. Mark: Research cardiac magnetic resonance imaging in end stage renal disease - incidence, significance and implications of unexpected incidental findings. European Radiology 04/2016; 27(1)., DOI:10.1007/s00330-016-4288-4 Jonathan R. Weir-McCall, Allan D. Struthers, Brian J. Lipworth, J. Graeme Houston: Letter to the editor: Comparing pace and speed in the pulmonary circulation?. AJP Heart and Circulatory Physiology 04/2016; 310(7)., DOI:10.1152/ajpheart.00065.2016 Shaween Al-Talabany, Faisel Khan, Graeme Houston, Helen Colhoun, Jonathan Weir-McCall, Daniel Leven, Fiona Dove, Deirdre Cassidy, Helen Looker, Chim Lang: EPICARDIAL ADIPOSE TISSUE IS RELATED TO ARTERIAL STIFFNESS IN PATIENTS WITH CARDIO-METABOLIC DISEASE. Journal of the American College of Cardiology 04/2016; 67(13)., DOI:10.1016/S0735-1097(16)31833-2 Jonathan R Weir-McCall, Suzanne L Duce, Stephen J Gandy, Shona Z Matthew, Patricia Martin, Deirdre B Cassidy, Lynne McCormick, Jill J F Belch, Allan D Struthers, Helen M Colhoun, J Graeme Houston: Whole body cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging to stratify symptomatic and asymptomatic atherosclerotic burden in patients with isolated cardiovascular disease. BMC Medical Imaging 02/2016; 16(1)., DOI:10.1186/s12880-016-0121-4 Stephen J Gandy, Shona Matthew, Sushma Rekhraj, Benjamin Szwejkowski, Elena Crowe, Allan D Struthers, J Graeme Houston: MRI of the left atrium at 3T: Evaluation of measurement reproducibility in healthy volunteers and patients with cardiovascular disease. Acta Radiologica 02/2016; 57(12)., DOI:10.1177/0284185115627386 Jonathan R. Weir-McCall, Richard D. White, Prasad G. Ramkumar, Stephen J. Gandy, Faisel Khan, Jill J. F. Belch, Allan D. Struthers, J. Graeme Houston: Follow-up of atheroma burden with sequential whole body contrast enhanced MR angiography: a feasibility study. The International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging 01/2016; 32(5)., DOI:10.1007/s10554-016-0842-z Julien Al Shakarchi, Aurangzaib Khawaja, Deirdre Cassidy, J Graeme Houston, Nicholas Inston: Efficacy of the Ulnar-Basilic Arteriovenous Fistula for Hemodialysis: A Systematic Review. Annals of Vascular Surgery 01/2016;, DOI:10.1016/j.avsg.2015.09.027 Andrew S. P. Sharp, Justin E. Davies, Melvin D. Lobo, Clare L. Bent, Patrick B. Mark, Amy E. Burchell, Simon D. Thackray, Una Martin, William S. McKane, Robert T. Gerber, James R. Wilkinson, Tarek F. Antonios, Timothy W. Doulton, Tiffany Patterson, Piers C. Clifford, Alistair Lindsay, Graeme J. Houston, Jonathan Freedman, Neelan Das, Anna M. Belli, Mohamad Faris, Trevor J. Cleveland, Angus K. Nightingale, Awais Hameed, Kalaivani Mahadevan, Judith A. Finegold, Adam N. Mather, Terry Levy, Richard D’Souza, Peter Riley, Jonathan G. Moss, Carlo Di Mario, Simon R. Redwood, Andreas Baumbach, Mark J. Caulfield, Indranil Dasgupta: Renal artery sympathetic denervation: observations from the UK experience. Clinical Research in Cardiology 01/2016; 105(6)., DOI:10.1007/s00392-015-0959-4 Efstratios Kokkalis, Nicolas Aristokleous, J Graeme Houston: Haemodynamics and Flow Modification Stents for Peripheral Arterial Disease: A Review. Annals of Biomedical Engineering 10/2015; 44(2)., DOI:10.1007/s10439-015-1483-4 Fabiola Fernández-Gutiérrez, Santiago Martínez, Martin A Rube, Benjamin F Cox, Mahsa Fatahi, Kenneth C Scott-Brown, J Graeme Houston, Helen McLeod, Richard D White, Karen French, Mariana Gueorguieva, Erwin Immel, Andreas Melzer: Comparative ergonomic workflow and user experience analysis of MRI versus fluoroscopy-guided vascular interventions: an iliac angioplasty exemplar case study. International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery 10/2015; 10(10)., DOI:10.1007/s11548-015-1152-y Suzanne L Duce, Jonathan R Weir-McCall, Stephen J Gandy, Shona Z Matthew, Deirdre B Cassidy, Lynne McCormick, Petra Rauchhaus, Helen Looker, Helen M Colhoun, J Graeme Houston: Cohort comparison study of cardiac disease and atherosclerotic burden in type 2 diabetic adults using whole body cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging. Cardiovascular Diabetology 09/2015; 14(1)., DOI:10.1186/s12933-015-0284-2 Julien Al Shakarchi, Jan Stolba, J Graeme Houston, Nicholas Inston: Surgical techniques for haemodialysis access-induced distal ischaemia. The journal of vascular access 09/2015;, DOI:10.5301/jva.5000467 Stephen P Broderick, J Graeme Houston, Michael T Walsh: The influence of the instabilities in modelling arteriovenous junction haemodynamics. Journal of Biomechanics 08/2015; 48(13)., DOI:10.1016/j.jbiomech.2015.07.038