The primary objective of CORDA is to raise funds to support clinical research into heart disease. However, we also work to raise awareness of the charity and of the important research and latest developments in this vital field. So every year we support a lecture at the Royal College of Physicians and a poster competition prize.
The Lord Rayner Memorial Lecture is given every year at the Royal College of Physicians to honour Lord Rayner and his association with cardiology and CORDA.
Established in 1992, the first lecture was given by CORDA founder Donald Longmore. Since then it has been given by a series of distinguished speakers who have made innovative contributions to preventative cardiology.
In 2009 the lecturer was Professor Sir Nicholas Wald, FRS, Director of the Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, St Bartholomew’s and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry. His lecture was entitled ‘The Polypill – from Concept to Reality’.
The lecturer in 2010 will be Professor Hugh Watkins, Field Marshall Alexander Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, Honorary Consultant in Cardiology and General Medicine, Head of Department, University of Oxford.
Find out more about the Lord Rayner Memorial Lecture on the Royal College of Physicians website.
CORDA supports a prize in the poster competition at the annual Hounsfield Memorial Lecture which is held at the Imperial College Imaging Sciences Centre.
Each year since 2004 a world-leading researcher in imaging science has given the lecture on one of the latest developments in the field. This is supported by a range of posters produced by imaging-related research groups at Imperial College to demonstrate the scope and depth of their research.
In 2009 the prize was awarded to Andrew Huntbatch, Department of Computing at Imperial College.