Cardiologists

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Dr Allan Harkness is a highly acclaimed consultant cardiologist, based in Essex and Suffolk, with a special interest in CT coronary angiography and advanced echocardiography. Dr Harkness works privately at the Oaks Hospital, Colchester and the Nash Basildon Private Unit at The Essex Cardiothoracic Centre. After graduating from the University of Glasgow in 1994, Dr Harkness went on to complete further specialist training in London and Glasgow, gaining accreditation in both general medicine and cardiology. During his research into heart failure, he worked with the British Heart Foundation on a nurse-led community heart failure service which became the NICE-approved standard of care nationwide.   Dr Harkness has been a consultant cardiologist at Colchester Hospital since 2006 and at the Essex Cardiothoracic Centre since it opened in 2007. In 2010, he became the clinical lead for cardiology at Colchester Hospital, where he has extensively developed their cardiac services. Thereafter, he was appointed as divisional director for medicine and emergency care for Colchester Hospital in 2017. After playing a key role in the merger, he was chosen to be divisional director for both Ipswich and Colchester Hospitals in the new East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust.   Dr Harkness is a core member of the Education Committee of the British Society of Echocardiography and lectures for national training programs. He also developed the BSE android app EchoCalc, which is the number one app for cardiac physiologists worldwide. He is currently updating the UK national standards for echocardiography in heart failure and valve disease. 

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Dr Mark Mason is a highly experienced cardiologist based in London. He is an internationally recognised expert in the implantation of pacemakers, implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) and biventricular pacemakers and has a special interest in the investigation and management of patients experiencing dizziness or blackouts, have weakened hearts or who are at risk of or who have experienced potentially life-threatening rhythms. He has lectured both nationally and internationally on a range of field-related topics and has been published in, and edited and reviewed for, a range of highly-reputable publications.

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A renowned and patient orientated surgeon with over 20 years of experience, Dr Van De Watt is the Medical Director of Watford General Hospital. His specialties include angina, heart failure, fitting pacemakers and other heart and lung related disorders. He visits both at his private and NHS clinics, is a member of numerous boards in his field, and considered invaluable to the field of cardiovascular disease.

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Professor Kausik Ray is an internationally renowned cardiologist, Professor of Public Heath, and Director of the Imperial Centre for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention, in the School of Public Health at Imperial College London. He specialises in cholesterol (including the use of statins in treatment), preventative cardiology, and heart problems in diabetic patients. He is an expert at the forefront of his field and is developing many of the new and emerging therapies in his area of interest. He is also Honorary Consultant Cardiologist at the Imperial College NHS Trust seeing NHS patients at the Hammersmith Hospital. Professor Ray graduated in medicine from the University of Birmingham, before completing an MD at the University of Sheffield, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School, and finally an MPhil in epidemiology from the University of Cambridge. A member of various academic societies, he is known for his contributions to his field in the form of his extensive research, particularly into lipids, including statin therapy, diabetes, and the prevention of cardiovascular disease, and has recently been included in Clarivate Analytics' 2018 Most Cited, meaning he is among the top 1% most cited academics in his field globally. 

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Dr Aigul Baltabaeva is a leading cardiologist in with special interest in valvular heart disease, hypertension and cardiovascular risk. She is high volume operator in high-end imaging such as cardiac MRI and echocardiography. Having graduated from Kyrgyz State Medical Institute with honours, she successfully completed PhD work studying arrhythmias in hypertension. After winning a prestigious international research award in 2002 she moved to London where she widened her research and clinical experience at St George’s Hospital, London. Dr Baltabaeva is highly-experienced in teaching cardiac imaging on an international level. She contributed to the planning and introduction of the Sonographer Led Valve Service, Contract Bubble Transcranial Doppler Clinic and Stress Echo laboratory into tertiary and district general hospitals. She is passionate about remaining on the frontline of cardiac imaging and brings the latest technologies into clinical practice to improve diagnostics in cardiovascular disease. The use of cutting edge technologies, such as 3D imaging and assessment of myocardial deformation is a part of her daily work. Dr Baltabaeva's research is well-published and presented broadly as she has written 20 peer-reviewed papers and more than 50 competitive abstracts. Currently she leads a large trial on incidence of mitral valve disease in heart failure patients. She has been an invited speaker at national and international conferences. She is a clinical and education supervisor to junior doctors, students and technicians. Dr Baltabaeva has organised numerous research and clinical meetings and has been a faculty member both nationally and internationally.

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Dr Sayan Sen is a multi-award-winning, internationally recognized consultant cardiologist specialising in all aspects of general cardiology, coronary angioplasty and TAVI/TAVR. He practices at various prestigious London Hospitals including the Wellington Hospital, the Cromwell Hospital and the Hammersmith Hospital. His pioneering research is focused on improving patient care and has changed the way cardiology is practised globally. He is often invited to lecture around the world and perform procedures live to international cardiology conferences. His educational programs have taught several hundred Interventional cardiologists and he is recognised as a global key opinion leader in his field.

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Professor Melvin Lobo is a pioneering clinical hypertension specialist, based in London. He is considered a global thought leader for his work as a specialist in all forms of blood pressure disorders, including hypertension, hypotension, variable blood pressure, postural tachycardia syndrome (PoTS) and fainting disorders. He has been involved in a number of important clinical studies of device-based therapies for these conditions. His group has been involved in novel treatments (some of the first in humans) to help patients with these diagnoses. To help with the diagnosis and management of complex circulatory conditions, he began the Barts Autonomic Laboratory in 2012 staffed with experts in neurophysiology and haemodynamics. Professor Lobo is director of the renowned Bart's Blood Pressure Clinic in London, which has been recognised as a Hypertension Centre of Excellence by the European Society of Hypertension. The centre has become the premier UK centre for trials of device-based therapy of hypertension. He is a specialist advisor to NICE on interventional therapy of hypertension, and has authored UK and European guidance on renal denervation. Alongside his clinical work, Professor Lobo is also an NHS Reader in Cardiovascular Medicine Bart's and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, and has contributed to a number of peer-reviewed articles for medical journals.

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Dr David Brull is a London heart specialist and leading Consultant Cardiologist with wide experience in treating all aspects of adult heart disease. His specialist interest is in the treatment of coronary artery disease through percutaneous coronary intervention (angioplasty and stenting). Dr Brull was appointed Consultant Cardiologist and Honorary Senior Lecturer to the Whittington Hospital and Heart Hospital, University College Hospitals in October 2003 and became Cardiology Clinical Lead at The Whittington in 2011. Following his appointment in 2003, Dr Brull played an integral part in setting up the Primary PCI (heart attack) Service based at Heart Hospital UCLH, providing immediate access and round the clock treatment for heart attack patients throughout North and Central London. In April 2015 The Heart Hospital services moved to The Bart’s Heart Centre, forming the UK’s largest Cardiothoracic centre. Dr Brull routinely sees patients with all common cardiac conditions including: angina (chest pain), hypertension (high blood pressure), heart failure, referrals for investigation of palpitations and collapse, cardiovascular risk assessment, perioperative cardiac assessment and treatment of elevated cholesterol levels. In addition to his work in the field of coronary artery disease, Dr Brull runs a specialist perioperative risk assessment clinic for patients prior to elective general surgery, working with a large multi-disciplinary team in order to reduce perioperative risk.

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Dr Michael Mullen is a consultant cardiologist based in London. He is internationally recognised for his expertise in the treatment of structural heart disease, with nearly 20 years of experience in this field. His private practice is based at the Harley Street Clinic and Barts Heart Centre, where he is the clinical lead for structural heart intervention. He previously held the position of Director of the cardiac catheter laboratories at the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust. His areas of clinical expertise include valvular heart disease, patent foramen ovale (PFO), atrial septal defect (ASD), aortic coarctation and other congenital heart diseases. He has played a key role in the development of new technologies for the treatment of these conditions and their introduction into the UK, including transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI), MitraClip and suture closure of patent foramen ovale. Dr Mullen has a broad research portfolio and is frequently invited to give lectures and live demonstrations at national and international conferences.  

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