Professor Melvin Lobo

Prof. Lobo is the Director of the internationally renowned Bart’s Blood Pressure Clinic which has been recognised as a Hypertension Centre of Excellence by the European Society of Hypertension and receives referrals of complex hypertensive patients on a national and international basis. The clinic is allied to the world renowned William Harvey Research Institute and has participated in several landmark studies in hypertension. These include the ground-breaking ASCOT study which led to a change in UK Hypertension guidelines as well as the Symplicity HTN-2 study of renal denervation for treatment-resistant hypertension 1,2 and most recently the ROX Control Hypertension Study of a novel central iliac arteriovenous anastomosis to treat uncontrolled hypertension3.