Demystifying Lipid Disorders and CV Risk in Primary Care

Professor Ahmet Fuat was a GP in Darlington, County Durham for 37 years, serving as CVD and Research Lead for the Darlington Primary Care Network and GP Federation. He became Medical Director at Oberoi Consulting in 2023 and will soon begin an Honorary Consultant Lipidologist/GPSI role with the diabetes and endocrinology team at County Durham and Darlington Foundation Trust.

A GPSI in Cardiology for over 25 years, he gained a Postgraduate Diploma in Cardiology from Bradford University with distinction and later tutored on the programme, teaching in heart failure (HF), valve disease, atrial fibrillation and ischaemic heart disease. In 2002, he helped establish the UK’s first one-stop diagnostic and integrated HF clinic. His PhD in HF diagnosis and management, including work on natriuretic peptides, produced influential publications and led to an Honorary Professorship at Durham University. He has contributed to NICE and ESC cardiovascular guidelines and the RCGP CKD/AKI toolkit.

Professor Fuat is the immediate past President of the Primary Care Cardiovascular Society (PCCS), now its Education and Research Lead, and serves as Lipid and HF Primary Care Lead for the North East and North Cumbria Academic Health Science Network. He is a member of the NHSE CVD Prevention Clinical Leadership Group and expert advisory groups for HF and heart valve disease, and a founder member of CaReMe UK.

Committed to medical education, he lectures widely, serves on editorial boards, and reviews for major cardiovascular journals. His contributions to community cardiology have been recognised with Fellowships from the RCGP, RCP London, RCP Edinburgh and the PCCS. At Oberoi, he oversees clinical development of digital disease-management platforms and mentors HF specialist nurses and clinical pharmacists.