Dr Stuart Cook grew up in Kenya, completed his schooling at St Edward’s
School, Oxford and studied medicine at St Bartholomew’s Medical School, London.
He obtained his membership of the Royal College of Physicians, United Kingdom (UK) and then did
a PhD at the National Heart and Lung Institute, UK. He undertook a Post
Doctoral scientific training Fellowship at Harvard funded by the Wellcome Trust
and then returned to the UK to complete his training in clinical cardiology
while holding a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Clinician Scientist Fellowship.
In 2008, he was appointed as
Group Head in Molecular Cardiology at the Medical Research Council Clinical Sciences Centre and
Honorary Consultant at the Hammersmith Hospital. He was appointed as Head of
Genetics at the Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit at the Royal Brompton
NHS Trust and Professor at Imperial College in 2010. In 2012 he was awarded a
Singapore Translational Research Investigator Award and appointed as
Professor at Duke-NUS Medical School, as well as Senior Consultant Cardiologist
at the National Heart Centre Singapore where he is the Director for the
clinical cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) service.
Dr Cook is a practising
cardiologist and expert in cardiac MRI with a special interest in
cardiomyopathies. He is currently the Director of the National Heart Research
Institute Singapore and Programme Director of the Cardiovascular and Metabolic
Disorders Programme at Duke-NUS. He leads a cross-disciplinary research
team that is centred on discovery science in humans and has the overarching
goal to identify genes and mechanisms for human cardiovascular disease for
diagnostic and therapeutic application.
