Dr Michael Drozd
- Position: NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer
- Email: M.Drozd@leeds.ac.uk
- Location: LIGHT Laboratories
- Website: PubMed | X | Googlescholar
Profile
I am a clinician-scientist and cardiology registrar based at the University of Leeds. I trained in medicine at Leeds, graduating in 2015, and completed my PhD in 2021, supported by a British Heart Foundation Clinical Research Training Fellowship. I am currently an NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer in Cardiology.
Research interests
My research focuses on infection-related adverse outcomes in heart failure. I have shown that around one in four deaths and hospitalisations in people with heart failure are attributable to infection. My work combines data science, laboratory immunology, clinical studies and multi-omics to understand why these patients are so vulnerable to infection, with the aim of developing mechanistically informed approaches to risk stratification, prevention and treatment.
Qualifications
- BSc
- MBChB (hons)
- PhD
- MRCP
- FESC
Student education
I supervise MBChB Students and academic foundation doctors. I also provide cardiovascular teaching to MBChB students in year 1, intercalation and year 5. I am passionate about widening participation into medicine.
Research groups and institutes
- Leeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine
- Cardiometabolic
- Discovery and Translational Science