Professional Bio:

Short Biography for HUON H GRAY CBE MD FRCP FESC MACC Huon Gray was appointed consultant adult and interventional cardiologist to Southampton University Hospital in 1989. He was President of the British Cardiac Society (2003-5), receiving its Mackenzie Medal in 2014, and co-chaired the Dept. of Health’s National Infarct Angioplasty Project (2006-8), which led to the subsequent national roll out of primary PCI for ST elevation myocardial infarction. He was also clinical adviser and then chair of two NICE guidelines on acute coronary syndromes (2007-13). He is honorary professor at Queen Mary’s University, London and has published widely on various aspects of cardiology and health service delivery. He was Deputy and then Interim National Clinical Director for Heart Disease at the Department of Health (2007-12), co-producing its CVD Outcomes Strategy (2013), and was then National Clinical Director for Heart Disease in NHS England between 2013-19, helping develop the CVD priorities in the NHS Long Term Plan (2019). He was made Commander of the Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours list 2019. He retired from clinical practice in 2020 and since then has undertaken consultancy work and is a company non-executive director. Huon has served in various capacities within the American College of Cardiology (ACC); as chair of its International Council (2008-13), on its Board of Trustees (2012-16), as member of its Governance Committee (2016-19) and then its chair (2019-22). He received the ACC’s Presidential Citation in 2013 and designation as Master of the ACC in 2018.