![Professor Dana Dawson Professor Dana Dawson](/img/200x200/staffpages/uploads/mmd950/DD2013.jpg)
DM, FRCP, D.Phil, FESC
Chair in Cardiovascular Medicine
- About
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- Email Address
- dana.dawson@abdn.ac.uk
- School/Department
- School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition
Biography
Professor Dawson qualified in medicine at University of Medicine “Grigore T. Popa”, Iasi, Romania. After completing her MRCP with the Royal College of Physicians in London and read for a D. Phil in Cardiovascular Medicine at Merton College, University of Oxford, she trained in Cardiovascular Medicine in Edinburgh, Oxford and London in the UK and at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, in the USA. In 2010 she moved to the University of Aberdeen and Aberdeen Royal Infirmary where she currently is Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and Consultant Cardiologist.
She made a significant contribution in advancing knowledge in acute stress induced (Takotsubo) cardiomyopathy, having delivered several landmark mechanistic clinical trials. Takotsubo studies are ongoing in Aberdeen who lead the Scottish Takotsubo Registry which has been accruing all cases since 2010.
There is keen interest in other topics such as exercise based interventions and pharmacological therapies to improve cardio-metabolic health in patients with type 2 diabetes, mechanistic trials unmasking heart failure in patients with COPD, deep cardiac phenotyping and strategies for prevention of cardio-toxicity in cardio-oncology. A cardio-dentistry collaboration explores the causal role of pathobionts in acute myocardial infarction.
Together with cardiac MR physicists, the group have developed the world's first cardiac array coil for cardiac Field Cycling Magnetic Resonance to investigate the unique characteristics of the heart muscle visible at low field and field cycling domains.
Professor Dana Dawson leads the Cardiology and Cardiovascular Research Unit who have strong collaborative links with many other UK centres, participating in multi-centre clinical research studies.
Memberships and Affiliations
- Internal Memberships
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Team members and close collaborators:
Dr. David Gamble - BHF Clinical Research Fellow, Clinical Lecturer
Dr. Hilal Khan - Clinical Research Fellow
Dr. Susanth Alapati - BHF Clinical (Dental) Research Fellow
Dr Sara Sharif - Elphinstone Clinical (Dental) Research Fellow
Ms Amelia Rudd, MSc - BHF AHP Clinical Research Fellow
Miss Lesley Cheyne - Cardiovascular Technician
Ms Janaki Srivanasan – Senior Research Sonographer
Dr. Lionel Broche – Lecturer in Fast Field Cycling MR Physics
Dr. Gareth Davies - Fast Field Cycling MR Physics Research Fellow
Dr. James Ross - Lecturer in Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Physics
Dr. Caroline Scally – former BHF Clinical Research Fellow
Miss Nadine Godsman – former BHF non-clinical PhD student
Dr. Alice Mezincescu – Clinical Lecturer (former BHF Clinical Research Fellow)
Dr. Chaitanya Pradeep Joshi - former Clinical Research Fellow - Dental, Elphinstone Scholar
Dr. Hassan Abbas – BHF Clinical Research Fellow
Research Nurses:
RN Valerie Harries
RN Jocelyn Abernethy
RN Debbie Olaotan
RN Pauline Crozier
Research Radiographers:
Mr Mike Hendry (MRI)
Ms Nicola Crouch (MRI)
Ms Laura Reid (MRI)
Ms Michelle Mauchline (MRI)
Mrs Denise Forrest (CT)
Ms Louise Lamley (CT)
- External Memberships
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She is a member of the British Cardiovascular Society, American Heart Association, Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology, Chair of the Myocardial Function Working Group of the European Society of Cardiology and head of the Taskforce on Takotsubo within the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology.
Prizes and Awards
Most recent mentored scientific investigations shortlisted for prize awards include:
1. Janaki Srivanasan – winner of the British Society of Echocardiography Young Investigator Research Prize, October 2016
2. Caroline Scally – finalist at the Early Career award, Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, Washington, January 2017
3. Caroline Scally – finalist at the Samuel A Levine Young Investigator Award of the American Heart Association, Anaheim, CA, November 2017
4. Nadine Godsman – winner of the Young Investigator’s prize of the British Pharmacological Society – Pharmacology, December 2017 – London, England
5. Caroline Scally - finalist at the Melvin Judkins Young Investigator Award of the American Heart Association, Chicago, IL, November 2018
6. Alice Mezincescu – finalist at the Early Career Award-Translational Sciences of the Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, Seattle, February 2019
7. Chaitanya Joshi – Coronary Artery Disease Risk is Increased by Periodontitis Pathobionts, winner of the Sir Wilfred Fish Prize of The British Society of Periodontology and Implant Dentistry, London, November 2021
8. Alice Mezincescu – Insulin Resistance in Type 2 Diabetes is Moderated by Saturated Fatty Acids Abundance and Turnover, finalist at the Early career award on Lifestyle and Cardiometabolic Risk, American Heart Association scientific sessions, Chicago, November 2022
9. Amelia Rudd - Cardiovascular and Non-Cardiovascular Prescribing and Mortality after Takotsubo - winner of the Scottish Cardiac Society Award, October 2023
- Research
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Funding and Grants
RESEARCH GRANTS – current:
1. A Randomised Controlled Trial of Renin-Angiotensin System Inhibition for Reduction of Cardiovascular Events after Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy (EVEREST), D Dawson (CI), DE Newby, G Hillis, M Petrie, G McCann, CP Gale, J Horowitz, G MacLennan, G Scotland, J Norrie – NIHR – Health Technology Assessment (NIHR157523), 01/01/25 to 31/12/31, £3,049,458.47
2. Myocardial Lipid Compartments in Type 2 Diabetes – Tenovus Scotland, AM Ciutac, J Ross, A Davidson and D Dawson, 1/08/2024-31/12/2025, £12,260
3. Sodium-glucose transporter type 2 inhibition in anthracycline-related cardiotoxicity, D Dawson (CI), D E Newby, BHF CRTF FS/CRTF/23/24508, 2025-2028, £363,697
4. Bioinformatics analysis of single cell SEQUENCing of Human PBMC in acutE cardiac disease- SEQUENCE study, H Khan, E Collie-Duguid, D Dawson, Tenovus Scotland, 03, 2023, £14,557
5. Replacement of (ultrasound) echocardiography equipment for clinical research, BHF Infrastructure Grant IG/F/21/50010 and IG/f/21/50010, D Dawson, 2022, £147,208
6. Epigenetic Phase Variation of Periodontal Bacteria – a Mechanistic Contributor to Coronary Artery Disease, BHFClinical Research Training Fellowship - FS/CRTF/22/24275 (for Dr Shirleen Hallang), K Hijazi (PI) and D Dawson, £217,509, 2022-2025, withdrawn due to unavailability of the fellow and re-awarded after peer review as a Project Grant, BHF PG/22/11117, £230,671
7. Epidemiology and predisposition of acute stress-induced (takotsubo) cardiomyopathy - BHF Research Training Fellowship (FS/RTF/20/30009, for Ms Amelia Rudd): D Dawson (CI), David Newby, 2021-2024, £215,051
8. The next leap in cardiac magnetic resonance imaging: cycling the field: D Dawson (CI), D Lurie, L Broche, J Ross, H Abbas: BHF New Horizons Grant no. NH/19/1/34595, 2020-2024, £277,722
- Publications
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Right ventricular involvement in Tako-tsubo cardiomyopathy: insights from cardiovascular magnetic resonance
Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, vol. 17, no. Suppl. 1, P280Contributions to Journals: Abstracts- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1532-429X-17-S1-P280
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The impact of methodological and temporal variation on infarct size quantification in acute myocardial infarction with late enhancement CMR
Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, vol. 17, no. Supplement 1, pp. 149-150Contributions to Journals: AbstractsDissociation of Early Shock in Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy from either Right or Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction
Heart, Lung and Circulation, vol. 23, no. 12, pp. 1141-1148Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hlc.2014.06.010
Randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial of perhexiline in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction syndrome
Future cardiology, vol. 10, no. 6, pp. 693-698Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.2217/fca.14.62
Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Determinants of Left Ventricular Noncompaction
The American Journal of Cardiology, vol. 114, no. 3, pp. 456-462Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjcard.2014.05.017
Dietary nitrate reduces skeletal muscle oxygenation response to physical exercise: a quantitative muscle functional MRI study
Physiological reports, vol. 2, no. 7, e12089Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.14814/phy2.12089
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/3346/1/2014Bentleyetal_PhysReports_.pdf
Intravenous sodium nitrite in acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction: a randomized controlled trial (NIAMI)
European Heart Journal, vol. 35, no. 19, pp. 1255-1262Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehu096
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/4482/1/Siddiqi_2014.pdf
MOLLI T1 mapping versus T2 W-SPAIR at 3T: myocardial area at risk measurements and the influence of microvascular obstruction
Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, vol. 16, O22Contributions to Journals: ArticlesNitrites in Acute Myocardial Infarction
Circulation, vol. 128, no. 24, pp. 2705Contributions to Journals: AbstractsPrognostic value of cardiovascular magnetic resonance in patients with suspected arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy
International Journal of Cardiology, vol. 168, no. 4, pp. 3514-3521Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcard.2013.04.208
Cardiac metabolism in hypertrophy and heart failure: implications for therapy
Heart Failure Reviews, vol. 18, no. 5, pp. 595-606Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10741-012-9359-2
Right ventricular function in left ventricular disease: pathophysiology and implications
Heart, Lung and Circulation, vol. 22, no. 7, pp. 507-511Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hlc.2013.03.072
Cardiac sarcoid or arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy: a role for Positron Emission Tomography (PET)?
Journal of Nuclear Cardiology, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 479-480Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12350-013-9683-5
Protocol: does sodium nitrite administration reduce ischaemia-reperfusion injury in patients presenting with acute ST segment elevation myocardial infarction? Nitrites in acute myocardial infarction (NIAMI)
Journal of translational medicine, vol. 11, 116Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1479-5876-11-116
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/3089/1/Siddiqi_2013.pdf
Living Without Creatine: Unchanged Exercise Capacity and Response to Chronic Myocardial Infarction in Creatine-Deficient Mice
Circulation Research, vol. 112, no. 6, pp. 945-955Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.112.300725
Prognostic Role of CMR in Patients Presenting With Ventricular Arrhythmias
JACC. Cardiovascular Imaging, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 335-344Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcmg.2012.09.012
GPIb VNTR C/C genotype may predict embolic events in infective endocarditis
The Journal of heart valve disease, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 133-141Contributions to Journals: ArticlesMetabolic therapy for heart failure including diastolic heart failure
Heart and Metabolism, no. 57, pp. 18-24Contributions to Journals: ArticlesSlowly resolving global myocardial inflammation/oedema in Tako-Tsubo cardiomyopathy: evidence from T2-weighted cardiac MRI
Heart, vol. 98, no. 17, pp. 1278-1284Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/heartjnl-2011-301481
Contemporary imaging of the pericardium
JACC. Cardiovascular Imaging, vol. 4, no. 6, pp. 680-684Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcmg.2010.08.022
Platelet receptor polymorphisms do not influence Staphylococcus aureus-platelet interactions or infective endocarditis
Microbes and Infection, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 216-225Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.micinf.2010.10.016
Regional thicknesses and thickening of compacted and trabeculated myocardial layers of the normal left ventricle studied by cardiovascular magnetic resonance
Circulation. Cardiovascular imaging, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 139-146Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.110.960229
A saw-tooth rather than noncompacted variant of left ventricular structure
Journal of the American College of Cardiology, vol. 57, no. 8, pp. 999Contributions to Journals: Letters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2010.09.061
Assessment of pericardial diseases and cardiac masses with cardiovascular magnetic resonance
Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases, vol. 54, no. 3, pp. 305-319Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pcad.2011.08.001
Paradoxical embolism via an atrial septal defect: in flagrante delicto
Journal of the American College of Cardiology, vol. 56, no. 22, pp. e43Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2010.02.079
Prognostic significance of myocardial fibrosis in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
Journal of the American College of Cardiology, vol. 56, no. 11, pp. 867-874Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2010.05.010
Significant aortic coarctation presenting as subarachnoid hemorrhage in the adult
Journal of the American College of Cardiology, vol. 55, no. 14, pp. e25Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2009.10.067
Quantitative myocardial contrast echocardiography during pharmacological stress for diagnosis of coronary artery disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis of diagnostic accuracy studies
European Journal of Echocardiography, vol. 10, no. 7, pp. 813-825Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/ejechocard/jep084
Prognostic value of dipyridamole stress myocardial contrast echocardiography: comparison with single photon emission computed tomography
Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography, vol. 22, no. 8, pp. 954-960Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.echo.2009.04.034
Inter-valvular fibrosa pseudo-aneurysm as a late complication after aortic valve surgery
European Journal of Echocardiography, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 169-170Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/ejechocard/jen205
Cardiac phenotype of mitochondrial creatine kinase knockout mice is modified on a pure C57BL/6 genetic background
Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology, vol. 46, no. 1, pp. 93-99Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yjmcc.2008.09.710
Management of the ascending aortic pseudo-aneurysms: a single centre experience
International Journal of Cardiology, vol. 130, no. 1, pp. 92-95Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcard.2007.06.071
An unusual cause of severe mitral regurgitation: aberrantly inserted chordae tendineae
Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 90.e3-90.e4Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.echo.2007.07.002
Transthoracic diagnosis of left atrial appendage myxoma by real-time 3-dimensional echocardiography
Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 192-193Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.echo.2004.08.010
Can contrast dobutamine stress echocardiography be performed with standardized imaging settings for everybody?
Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography, vol. 18, no. 11, pp. 1194-1202Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.echo.2005.06.010
Supranormal myocardial creatine and phosphocreatine concentrations lead to cardiac hypertrophy and heart failure: insights from creatine transporter-overexpressing transgenic mice
Circulation, vol. 112, no. 20, pp. 3131-3139Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.105.572990
nNOS gene deletion exacerbates pathological left ventricular remodeling and functional deterioration after myocardial infarction
Circulation, vol. 112, no. 24, pp. 3729-3737Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.105.539437
Atrio-ventricular block and ventricular tacchycardia induced by severe coronary spasm
International Journal of Cardiology, vol. 97, no. 2, pp. 319-319Contributions to Journals: Letters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcard.2003.06.030
Quantitative 3-dimensional echocardiography for accurate and rapid cardiac phenotype characterization in mice
Circulation, vol. 110, no. 12, pp. 1632-1637Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1161/01.CIR.0000142049.14227.AD
Measurement of myocardial blood flow velocity reserve with myocardial contrast echocardiography in patients with suspected coronary artery disease: comparison with quantitative gated Technetium 99m sestamibi single photon emission computed tomography
Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography, vol. 16, no. 11, pp. 1171-1177Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1067/S0894-7317(03)00646-1
Case study: metformin-associated lactic acidosis: could orlistat be relevant?
Diabetes Care, vol. 26, no. 8, pp. 2471-2472Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.2337/diacare.26.8.2471
Automated, nonrigid alignment of clinical myocardial contrast echocardiography image sequences: comparison with manual alignment
Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 115-123Contributions to Journals: ArticlesSkeletal muscle microvascular recruitment by physiological hyperinsulinemia precedes increases in total blood flow
Diabetes, vol. 51, no. 1, pp. 42-8Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.2337/diabetes.51.1.42
Vascular recruitment in skeletal muscle during exercise and hyperinsulinemia assessed by contrast ultrasound
American Journal of Physiology: Endocrinology and Metabolism, vol. 282, no. 3, pp. E714-20Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1152/ajpendo.00373.2001
Non-invasive assessment of myocardial blood flow using echocardiography
International Journal of Cardiology, vol. 73, no. 2, pp. 105-13Contributions to Journals: Articles