Professor Terry McCormack

Terry McCormack is the 22nd President of the British and Irish Hypertension Society and the first GP to hold this position. As a GP in Whitby, he set up a research unit which was successful in studies involving hypertension, lipids, anticoagulation and dermatology. For over 25 years he was also a Hospital Practitioner in Anaesthetics. He has over 100 publications to his name and as a result was appointed an honorary Professor of Primary Care Cardiovascular Medicine at Hull York Medical School (HYMS).

Guideline work includes the NICE Hypertension CG127 and NG138, Perioperative Care and Venous Thromboembolism guideline committees. His major achievement was the 2016 AAGBI/BHS preoperative blood pressure guideline. This guideline has more citations than any other in the history of the journal Anaesthesia, the leading anaesthetic journal in the World.

Awards include the 2016 NIHR Leading Commercial Trial Investigator, 2020 HYMS Undergraduate Medicine Teacher of Excellence Award, the RNLI Gold Badge 2016 and RNLI Long Service Medal 2023. He was appointed a Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology as a leading cardiovascular scientist. Together with Henry Purcell and Kim Fox, he edits the British Journal of Cardiology.