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Associate Professor

image alt textBHB MB ChB (Auck) PhD (Edin) MPH FRACP FCSANZ FESC
Email philip.adamson@otago.ac.nz

Current roles

  • Associate Professor – Department of Medicine, University of Otago Christchurch
  • Consultant Interventional Cardiologist – Te Whatu Ora – Waitaha Canterbury and the Christchurch Heart Group
  • Senior Research Fellow – University of Edinburgh

Professional and research interests

  • Coronary artery disease (angina and acute coronary syndrome)
  • Valvular heart disease (aortic stenosis, mitral regurgitation)
  • Stroke prevention (PFO closure, LAA occlusion)
  • Cardiac computed tomography (CT)

Phil works in the Christchurch Heart Institute and is a Consultant Interventional Cardiologist.

His clinical expertise is related to the treatment of coronary and structural heart diseases (coronary stenting, TAVI, PFO closure, etc).

His research focus is the diagnostic and prognostic assessment of cardiovascular disease using circulating and imaging biomarkers, particularly advanced cardiac CT imaging. He currently holds 2 project grants from the Health Research Council of NZ for multicentre trials investigating new approaches to the treatment of acute coronary syndromes. He is also an investigator for new devices being tested as minimally invasive treatments for structural heart disease and stroke prevention.

Outside of work he enjoys anything that gets him into the outdoors – running, hiking, and mountain biking.

Publications

Weir-McCall, J. R., Wereski, R., Chen, J., Zheng, J., Kwiecinski, J., Adamson, P. D., … Williams, M. C. (2025). Socio-economic status, cardiovascular risk factors, and coronary atherosclerosis: A SCOT-HEART trial analysis. European Journal of Preventive Cardiology. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1093/eurjpc/zwaf121 Journal - Research Article

Lee, J. A., Wise, J., Raudsepp, S. D., Paton, L. N., Powell, J., Jina, K., Aldous, S., Troughton, R. W., Adamson, P. D., Richards, A. M., … Than, M. P., Pickering, J. W., & Pemberton, C. J. (2025). Insulin-like growth factor binding protein-3 (IGFBP-3): A biomarker of coronary artery disease induced myocardial ischaemia. European Heart Journal Open, 5, oeaf028. doi: 10.1093/ehjopen/oeaf028 Journal - Research Article

Williams, M. C., Wereski, R., Tuck, C., Adamson, P. D., Shah, A. S. V., van Beek, E. J. R., … on behalf of the SCOT-HEART Investigators. (2025). Coronary CT angiography-guided management of patients with stable chest pain: 10-year outcomes from the SCOT-HEART randomised controlled trial in Scotland. Lancet, 405(10475), 329-337. doi: 10.1016/s0140-6736(24)02679-5 Journal - Research Article

Wang, X., Leng, S., Adamson, P. D., Greer, C. E., Huang, W., Lee, H. K., … Baskaran, L. (2025). Characterizing cardiac adipose tissue in post-AMI patients via CT imaging: A comparative cross-sectional study. European Heart Journal: Cardiovascular Imaging, jeaf019. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1093/ehjci/jeaf019 Journal - Research Article

Gebert, Z. M., Kwiecinski, J., Weir-McCall, J. R., Adamson, P. D., Mills, N. L., Roditi, G., … Williams, M. C. (2025). Impact of diabetes mellitus on coronary artery plaque characteristics and outcomes in the SCOT-HEART trial. Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1016/j.jcct.2024.12.083 Journal - Research Article

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