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Professor Colin Berry is the Professor of Cardiology and Imaging at the University of Glasgow. He is Director of the British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence and Director of Research in the School of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Health. He is also the Director of Research at the Golden Jubilee National Hospital and a Consultant Cardiologist in this hospital and in the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow. Professor Berry is an Executive Editor of the European Heart Journal and President of the British Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (2022-2024). He is a Steering Group member of the International Coronary Vasomotor Disorders International Study Group (COVADIS). In 2023, he founded a new Working Party for Ischaemic Heart Disease in the British Cardiovascular Society. Previously, he led the British Society of Cardiovascular Research, the Research Group of the British Cardiovascular Intervention Society, and the Clinical Trials Committee of the Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance.

Colin has pioneered new technologies in medicine. In 2005, Colin became the first British clinician to undertake Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR). In 2011, his team implemented a world-first to map heart attack injury using MRI in patients treated at the NHS Golden Jubilee Hospital (NCT02072850).

Colin also leads teams undertaking research into Long COVID-19. He has led the CISCO-19 multisystem imaging study of people after hospitalisation for COVID-19 (NCT04403607; PMID: 35606551), the CISCO-21 trial of resistance exercise for prevention and treatment of long-COVD (NCT04900961; PMID: 35606551) and he co-leads the UK COVID-HEART study (ISRCTN58667920; PMID: 35606551). He has contributed to multiple biomedical and clinical studies on COVID-19. He may be contacted via https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/cardiovascularmetabolic/staff/colinberry/