Professor. Ahmet Fuat

Professor Ahmet Fuat has been a GP in Darlington for 40 years currently working part time as a GPSI Cardiorenal medicine and lead research GP at Orchard Court Surgery and NENC RRDN primary care research delivery centre.. He was Oberoi Consulting Medical Director from September 2023 to February 2026, is National Programme Director at Clinilink Ltd and has also worked as an Honorary Consultant Lipidologist/GPSI within the diabetes and endocrinology team at County Durham and Darlington Foundation Trust, running a secondary prevention and genetic lipid clinic.

He has been a GPSI Cardiology for over 25 years having undertaken a Postgraduate Diploma in Cardiology at Bradford University graduating with distinction. He went on to be a tutor on the course for many years teaching on HF, HVD, AF and IHD. He started the first one stop diagnostic and integrated heart failure clinic in the UK in 2002 with local colleagues.

His PhD by research in heart failure diagnosis and management including work on natriuretic peptides generated several publications that have informed guidelines and led to the award of an Honorary Professorial Chair at Durham University. He has contributed to various NICE and ESC CVD and HF guidelines, and RCGP CKD/AKI toolkit.

He has held and holds various roles in CVD and research including the being past President, education and research leads of the Primary Care Cardiovascular Society (PCCS) which he was instrumental in reforming, and previous Lipid and Heart Failure primary care lead for North East and North Cumbria Academic Health Science Network. He sits on the NHSE CVD Prevention Clinical Leadership group and NHSE expert advisory group for Heart Failure and Heart Valve disease. He was a founder member of CaReMe UK representing the PCCS. He is currently Vice Chair of the HEART UK Lp(a) Task Force, and advisor to Pumping Marvellous, a Heart Failure patient charity.

He has a passion for medical education and remains an active lecturer, tutor and researcher. He is on the editorial boards of the British Journal of Cardiology and Primary Care Cardiovascular Journals and a peer reviewer for most high impact Cardiovascular journals and research bodies. His work in community cardiology has been recognised with Fellowships from the RCGP, RCP London and RCP Edinburgh, ESC and the PCCS.

He has led many quality improvement initiatives over the years in HF, AF, Lipids, hypertension, diabetes and CKD. His work on HF was included in their BHF blueprint for HF. Much of this work was carried out using Oberoi digital audit platforms as has been replicated by colleagues across the UK, benefiting patients and practices positively.