Dr. J. Malcolm O. Arnold, BSc, MB, BCh, BAO, MD, FRCP, FRCP Edin, FRCPC, FACP, FACC FESC graduated first in his class from Queen’s University, Belfast and has received many undergraduate and postgraduate awards. He was a clinical and research fellow in the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston and is presently staff cardiologist at University Hospital, London Health Sciences Centre and Professor of Medicine, Physiology and Pharmacology in the of University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada. He is Director of Research Affairs for the Division of Cardiology, is Chair of the Canadian Heart Failure Network, Chair of the Canadian Cardiovascular Congress Committee, is a member of the Executive Councils of the Heart Failure Society of America and the Canadian Cardiovascular Society and served on the Steering Committee of the Board of Governors of the American College of Cardiology. He is a member of the Scientific Program Committees of the Heart Failure Society of America and the Canadian Cardiovascular Society and is on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Cardiac Failure and the Canadian Journal of Cardiology. He is a frequent invited reviewer for many other journals.
He was the first Chair of the Canadian Cardiovascular Society Heart Failure Guidelines Program and is also a member of the Canadian Hypertension Society and the Canadian Diabetes Association national Guideline Committees. He has also served as Chair of the University of Western Ontario Department of Medicine Research Committee and has received the Faculty of Medicine Dean’s Awards for both Excellence in Research and Excellence in Teaching. His research has been funded by the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada and the Canadian Institute for Circulatory and Respiratory Health and he has been an Investigator in many NHLBI studies. He serves on many national and international research committees and clinical trial steering committees and has published over two hundred and fifty scientific manuscripts, theses, book chapters, editorials and reviews, over two hundred abstracts, and over one hundred and thirty teaching programs and CME publications. He has supervised many undergraduate and post-graduate students including MSc, PhD and post doctoral students. With a graduate student and colleague in his laboratory, they discovered the effect of grapefruit juice on drug metabolism and described the mechanism. His current interests focus on heart failure, its mechanisms and treatment as well as delivery of optimal care.
