Dr Saj Sarwar is a GP in Aston, a busy inner city teaching practice. He is a GP trainer, mentor and GP with a special interest in Cardiology from a patient and strategy perspective.

He has worked to develop pathways for optimal care and cascade this to health care professionals. This has including promoting the simple Birmingham 3 step approach for dealing with reducing stroke risk in AF patients, and the close working relationship between the primary and secondary care. This work as a local initiative has received global recognition, with culmination into a publication in the European Heart Journal.

His role across the Black Country and Birmingham and Solihull ICSs has allowed for the Long-Term Plan objectives with the National Cardiovascular strategy to be implemented at practice floor level, utilising enterprising workings with the PCN and stronger working with pharmacists, secondary care and voluntary care organisations. This has encompassed the ABC work stream (Atrial fibrillation, Blood pressure and Cholesterol management) and heart failure as a quality improvement projects. As chair of the Improvement and Implementation programme for Circulatory Disease, this has been extended to.

Atrial Fibrillation

Blood Pressure

Cholesterol

Diabetes

eGFR/ACR (CKD)

Fraction (Heart Failure)

This has also included the health inequalities focused across the Core20PLUS5 workstream and national priorities. This has been driven by his passion for teaching and upskilling to reinforce the CardioMetaboRenal priorities.

Dr Sarwar is keen on innovation and has utilised digital technology to support bespoke searches, software and peripherals to aid in improving detection in atrial fibrillation, cardiac screening, lipid lowering and hypertension with optimal therapy.  

Dr Mohamed Elnaggar is a Consultant Endocrinologist, Lipidologist and Clinical Lead for Lipid services at University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust. He is also currently the Clinical Lipid lead of South Cumbria and Lancashire. Dr Elnaggar has been involved in Diabetes and Lipidology teaching and research as a lecturer at the Alexandria Faculty of Medicine. He has developed a large experience dealing with patients suffering from dyslipidemia, diabetes and obesity over the years since he completed his training program in his native Egypt. As a result of his multiple disease area interests, he has always thought it best not to treat each of these conditions separately but to think of the patient and their CVRM risk as a whole.   

Dr.Elnaggar has been instrumental in setting up his local Lipid service and in initiating local guidelines and pathways for lipid management as well as implementing innovative methods in managing CVRM disease.

Dr.Elnaggar has a great passion for education and teaching and has been involved in numerous national and international conferences and speaker events. He is currently acting as an honorary lecturer in Lancaster University.  He is also a Principal Investigator in several diabetes, lipid and obesity related trials and is invested in research involving newer therapies in the aforementioned conditions. He is keen on pathway reforms and finding better ways to improve cardiovascular outcomes both locally and nationally.