Jonathan Weir-McCall graduated in 2007 from the University of Aberdeen. His junior doctor years were spent in St Mary’s in London, before he started his Radiology training in Guy’s and St Thomas’. In 2009 he took up a clinical lecturer post in Ninewells Hospital with a major research interest in cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging. He is currently undertaking a period of research funded by the Wellcome Trust under the Scottish Translational Medicine Therapeutics Initiative looking at the effects of lung disease on the heart and pulmonary vasculature using cardiac magnetic resonance imaging.

My research interest is in the development of cardiac imaging with a particular interest in cardiac magnetic resonance imaging and cardiovascular imaging. I have spent the last 2 years working on the imaging arm of the TASCFORCE (Tayside screening for cardiac events) study which involves 1500 whole body MR angiogram and cardiac assessment. Currently I am taking time out of training to focus on cardiac disease in patients with COPD (a smoking induced lung disease).

SCOT-HEART trialists. Role of multidetector computed tomography in the diagnosis and management of patients attending the rapid access chest pain clinic, The Scottish computed tomography of the heart (SCOT-HEART) trial: study protocol for randomized controlled trial. Trials. 2012 Oct 4;13(1):184. Weir-McCall J, Shaw A, Arya A, Knight A, Howlett DC. The use of pre-operative computed tomography in the assessment of the acute abdomen. Ann R Coll Surg Engl. 2012 Mar;94(2):102-7. Sidhu R, Weir-McCall J, Cochennec F, Riga C, DiMarco A, Bicknell CD. Evaluation of an electromagnetic 3D navigation system to facilitate complex endovascular tasks - a feasibility study. Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg. 2010 Aug 21. [Epub ahead of print]