Professor Robin Choudhury

Professor Robin Choudhury is an experienced cardiologist (a consultant since 2005) who specialises in general and preventive cardiology. He sees patients with a range of cardiology conditions including chest pain, palpitations, syncope / blackouts, coronary artery disease, heart attack, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol. 

He has particular interest in emerging cardiovascular risk factors related to generic risk, cholesterol, diabetes, inflammation and lipoprotein(a). He is expert in the assessment and management of cardiovascular risk, and has established The PIT-STOP® as one of the UK’s first programmes to provide integrated care to hat-risk patients.

• PIT - Primary Intensive Treatment - for individuals concerned to assess their cardiovascular risk and to minimise the lifelong chance of heart disease.

• STOP - Secondary Treatment Optimisation Programme - for patients who have already had a heart attack, stent or bypass operation and who wish to minimise the risk of recurrence or progressive disease.

He is an honorary consultant cardiologist at Oxford Heart Centre, and was the founding Director of Oxford Acute Vascular Imaging Centre. He is a Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Oxford, and practises privately at OneWelbeck London.

Professor Choudhury graduated in medicine at the University of Oxford and undertook his postgraduate medical training at the The Royal Brompton and Hammersmith Hospitals in London, and Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York. 

He is a past President of the Royal Society of Medicine Section on Lipids, Metabolism and Vascular Risk and has been elected to Fellowships of the Royal College of Physicians (London); the American College of Cardiology the and European Society of Cardiology. He is a Fellow of Balliol College Oxford. He was Section Editor (Clinical Cardiology) for the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, the world’s leading clinical journal in this field. He is co-editor of Emergencies in Cardiology (3rd Edition; OUP, 2026).

Professor Choudhury has published over 250 peer-reviewed papers, with a particular focus on vascular disease, cholesterol, and inflammation.

In 2013, he led a project which incorporated the use of magnetic resonance imaging to test Leonardo da Vinci's hypothesis on the passage of blood across the aortic valve. His book The Beating Heart (Bloomsbury 2024) is a cultural history told through depictions of the heart in art.

His approcah is one of clear explanation that addresses both the medical problem and any attendant anxieties. He seeks to equip patients to make evidence-based decisions that reflect their individual needs and priorities, and to provide state-of-the-art care.