Henry West

Dr Henry West is a Post-Doctoral Research Associate in the Oxford Translational Cardiovascular Research Group. Henry completed his DPhil under the supervision of Professors Charalambos Antoniades & Keith Channon in 2023. He was a Rhodes Scholar (Balliol, 2018). His doctorate concerned the development of novel imaging biomarkers for cardiovascular disease, with a focus on atrial fibrillation and ischaemic stroke.

Henry's primary research interest continues to be discovery of novel imaging biomarkers for common cardiovascular diseases utilising computed tomography (CT). His expertise includes the creation of large scale multi-site imaging studies and the management and coordination of big data for answering scientific questions. This work has included the creation of the ORFAN Study cohort within the Antoniades Lab. This is a well phenotyped cohort of over 100,000 patients who have undergone CT coronary angiogram as part of clinical care.

Henry currently resides in Australia here he is completing physician training, and serves as a Clinical Lecturer at the University of Sydney.

Henry has published work in major journals including Circulation, The European Heart Journal and The Journal of the American College of Cardiology. He has presented prize winning work at international meetings such as the European Cardiology Society Congress, the American Heart Association Meeting, and the British Cardiovascular Society Meeting.

Henry is an Associate Editor of the journal 'Heart'.