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Dr Fakhar Khan is a prominent London cardiologist, specialised in the field of heart rhythm disorders. He divides his time between various top London hospitals and sees patients to fit pacemakers, defibrillators, and other devices. A Cambridge graduate, he completed his studies in Oxford and London. He has written numerous peer-reviewed articles, is a member of many prominent associations and is an accomplished, patient orientated consultant.

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Dr Boon Lim is one of London's leading cardiologists and electrophysiologists. He specialises in heart rhythm disturbances, pacing and syncope at Imperial College and at his Harley Street clinic. He leads the established Imperial Syncope Diagnostic Service at Hammersmith Hospital and is frequently invited to national and international meetings to share his experience. He has a special interest in the mapping and ablation of atrial fibrillation (AF) and is highly-skilled at using modern 3-D mapping technologies. Dr Lim was awarded several prestigious prizes during his medical training at Cambridge University where he obtained a double First Class Honours Degree. He has continued his passion for education and research serving as an Honorary Senior Lecturer at Imperial College where he supervises several PhD students. Dr Lim is very actively engaged in all aspects of research with a particular interest in developing the best techniques for treating atrial fibrillation. He is invited to speak both nationally and internationally to discuss his findings and to teach other physicians about the best techniques for complex mapping and ablation of atrial fibrillation and other complex arrhythmias. He leads a very active syncope research team based at the Imperial Syncope Diagnostic Unit and is looking to improve healthcare delivery for patients through use of effective online education to help improve the quality of life for patients across the UK.   

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Dr Syed Ahsan is a leading cardiologist based in London who has won and been nominated for many awards in his field. Having trained in various prestigious centres in London, Dr Ahsan is highly experienced in all areas of cardiology with a specialist interest in heart rhythm disorders (arrhythmias).  He also sees patients with collapse, chest pains, shortness of breath and high blood pressure.  His NHS practice is based at Barts Heart Centre, one of the largest cardiac units in Europe, where Dr Ahsan is one of the lead clinicians for atrial fibrillation (AF). He perfoms catheter ablation procedures for AF and other heart rhythm disorders and is an expert in implanting all kinds of cardiac devices such as pacemakers, defibrillators and resynchronisation devices. Dr Ahsan is known for his patient-centred approach, ensuring that his patients are always fully aware and comfortable with the consultation and treatment process. From his clinics across London, Dr Ahsan offers treatment for all aspects of adult cardiology and heart rhythm disorders. 

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During the coronavirus pandemic, Professor Lobo is aware that many patients have concerns about hypertension, their medications and the risk of COVID-19. As such there are two things to be aware of:   1. The following link will give you free access to trustworthy information on these issues from the International Society of Hypertension which is available to all-comers: https://ish-world.com/news/a/A-statement-from-the-International-Society-of-Hypertension-on-COVID-19/   2. Please be aware that ALL insurers are currently covering as usual for remote consultations and Professor Lobos continues to run virtual clinics by telephone to provide ongoing care for his patients whilst also contributing to the NHS frontline at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel. It may be possible to also have video calls. Professor Melvin Lobo is a pioneering cardiovascular 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 Michael Mullen is a consultant interventional cardiologist based in London. He has an international reputation for his expertise in the transcatheter treatment of structural and congenital heart disease with over 20 years of experience in this field. Dr Mullen's private practice is based at Harley Street Clinic and Barts Heart Centre, where he leads the UK’s largest structural heart intervention program.  Treatments provided by Dr Mullen include percutaneous repair or replacement of heart valves, including TAVI, Mitraclip, Triclip and pulmonary valve implantation, closure of patent foramen ovale (PFO) and atrial septal defect (ASD) and other bespoke interventions  for structural heart abnormalities. Dr Mullen has played a key role in the development and evaluation of many of these innovative technologies and their subsequent introduction into clinical practice.  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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Professor Nicholas Peters is an esteemed London cardiologist based at London Cardiovascular Clinic on Harley Street. He is an expert in electrophysiology, arrhythmias (irregular heart rhythms), and device implantations, such as pacemakers. As Professor of Cardiology and Head of Cardiac Electrophysiology at Imperial College London, he is well regarded as one of the best in his field. Professor Peters graduated from the University of London, before training at several London teaching hospitals. He is accredited in both cardiology and general medicine. He was awarded an MD after completing a three.year British Heart Foundation Research Fellowship at Imperial College. He also undertook post-Doctoral research in the USA, at Columbia University, New York, where he continues to hold the position of Adjunct Professor. Professor Peters' research is widely published, and he sits on several boards and committees for various organisations. He is also co-founder of the European Cardiac Arrhythmia Society.

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Professor Jamil Mayet is a leading cardiologist based at the prestigious London Cardiovascular Clinic on Harley Street and heads the West London Cardiac Centre at Hammersmith Hospital. He specialises in cardiovascular risk assessment and treatment including high blood pressure and imaging of the heart. He is also known for his expertise in assessing the heart during pregnancy and before operations.  He has been cardiologist to the England football team and premier league football clubs, screening the hearts of players before competition. He is a founding member of the International Centre for Circulatory Health at the Hammersmith Hospital and Imperial College. Professor Mayet is a highly trained and experienced specialist. He graduated from the University of Dundee, before completing a research fellowship in the Cardiovascular Consequences of Hypertension at St Mary’s Hospital, Imperial College London. He went on to train in clinical cardiology at St Mary's and the Royal Brompton Hospitals, as well as being awarded an MBA from Edinburgh Business School. A prolific researcher, Professor Mayet has published over 200 peer-reviewed publications. His research interests include developing new technologies to assess and treat conditions of the heart and arteries, the development of atherosclerosis, and the physiology of coronary flow and blood pressure, among others. He lectures both nationally and internationally on many different facets of cardiology.

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Dr Iqbal Malik is an outstanding cardiologist based at London Cardiovascular Clinic on Harley Street. He specialises in angioplasty, TAVI (transcatheter aortic valve implantation), and closure of holes in the heart, such as atrial septal defect (ASD) and patent foramen ovale (PFO).  A highly qualified and experienced specialist, Dr Malik graduated from Cambridge and trained in London. He completed a PhD in vascular biology at the Hammersmith Hospital, where he was appointed as a consultant in 2003, and is now the lead for structural heart disease as well as the Heart Attack Centre (HAC) program. Dr Malik is actively involved in research, particularly into coronary artery disease and structural heart disease. He has been involved in conducting many clinical trials, and was a founding member of the International Centre for Circulatory Health (ICCH) - a centre of research excellence at Imperial College London.

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Dr Nicholas Robinson is a highly skilled consultant interventional cardiologist with more than 25 years of experience, based in London and Essex. He has performed over 4500 stent procedures with excellent publicly reported outcomes. Dr Robinson graduated from Cambridge University and went on to complete his clinical training at major prestigious teaching centres in London. Dr Robinson specialises in the diagnosis and treatment of angina and heart attack, as well as being an expert in stent insertion.  During his time at The London Chest Hospital and St Bartholomew's Hospital, Dr Robinson published widely on the use of stents in treating coronary disease, for which he was awarded a British Heart Foundation Research Fellowship and was an academic clinical lecturer. As well as providing care for many patients with angina, heart failure and chest pain, Dr Robinson is also committed to training doctors in aspects of coronary intervention and has lectured at numerous national and international conferences. Dr Robinson is currently working at the Essex Cardiothoracic Centre where he has helped develop the heart attack services at this well-known hospital since 2003.

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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. He continued this role after the merger of 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. For his contribution to education, research, leadership, volunteering and national reputation, we was awarded Fellow of the British Society of Echocardiography in October 2019.

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Professor Martin Cowie is a leading London cardiologist, who holds a special interest in adult cardiology, heart failure, and complex cardiac diseases. His research interests include implantable devices (such as pacemakers and defibrillators, and the CardioMEMS monitor), new drug therapies and devices for heart failure, remote monitoring and digital health, and respiratory disease in patients with cardiac problems. He is often asked to give second opinions on cardiac diagnoses and treatment. Professor Cowie studied medicine at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. His post-graduate training was in London at University College London, the Middlesex Hospital, and Imperial College London. He has been a consultant cardiologist for more than 20 years. He has worked extensively with the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) on its work in atrial fibrillation and heart failure, and since 2016 has been a Non-Executive Director of that standard setting body. Professor Cowie has published more than 300 scientific papers, with his work being cited in the scientific literature more than 50,000 times. He has also contributed to a number of book chapters and textbooks. Professor Cowie’s research studies have been published in journals that include The New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, The British Medical Journal and the European Heart Journal. He is the clinical and research lead for the Heart Failure Group at the Royal Brompton Hospital (Sydney Street, Chelsea, London SW3 6NP), where his NHS and private practices are based.

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Dr Sen Sankar is a leading cardiologist based in the Wirral, who specialises in adult congenital heart disease and cardiac imaging such as MRI, CT and echocardiogram. Dr Sankar completed his cardiology and general medicine specialist training in Wales and completed a post-CCT fellowship in adult congenital heart disease and cardiac MRI at Southampton University Hospital. He has the unique experience of working in the best healthcare systems in the world, including the Cleveland Clinic, which is a renowned cardiothoracic centre. Dr Sankar has held various leadership roles in developing cardiac imaging services, congenital heart disease service and clinic governance and audit lead. He has management certification from Harvard Business School, Boston USA and certification from the Institute of Healthcare Improvement, USA.

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Dr Ayyaz Sultan is an experienced consultant cardiologist based in Greater Manchester and Liverpool. He treats all aspects of adult heart disease, including high blood pressure, angina, palpitations, heart failure and heart murmurs. He also specialises in interventional cardiology, and is currently the Cardiac Catheter Lab/PCI Lead at the Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust. Dr Sultan completed his cardiology training in Sheffield in 2013, after which he did an interventional cardiology fellowship at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. He has been a consultant in the UK since 2015 and in 2016 he was appointed as an honorary senior lecturer for the University of Manchester. In this role, Dr Sultan is responsible for training junior doctors, undergraduates and cardiology registrars, and he also acts as clinical supervisor for training nurses. His key interests within interventional cardiology include the treatment of coronary artery disease, non-invasive cardiac CT, angioplasty and stenting. In fact, Dr Sultan has performed more than 4,000 angiographies and over 1,400 angioplasty procedures.

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Dr Adrian Chenzbraun is a highly-experienced cardiologist based in Liverpool, who specialises in treating a variety of cardiac conditions including angina, heart attack, valvular heart disease, rhythm disturbances and heart failure. Patients visit Dr Chenzbraun's clinic because of symptoms such as palpitations, shortness of breath, chest pain or to further manage already diagnosed cardiac conditions. Dr Chenzbraun’s subspecialty area of expertise is echocardiography and he performs stress echocardiography, advanced techniques echocardiography and transoesophageal echocardiography. He has trained in both Israel and the USA and he is presently Consultant Cardiologist at The Royal Liverpool University Hospital and has a private practice at Liverpool Spire Hospital.

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Professor Michael Mahmoudi is an expert consultant cardiologist based in Southampton, Woking and London. He specialises in interventional cardiology, coronary stenting, pacemakers and treating hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. With more than 20 years of experience, Professor Mahmouhdi is leading cardiologist. Graduating from the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, London, he went on to train in Southampton and then completed his PhD in vascular biology at the University of Cambridge in 2008. Professor Mahmoudi is a senior lecturer, having taught at the University of Surrey, and currently is an associate professor at the University of Southampton. He is also a visiting professor for Georgetown University, USA. His academic research interests include vascular wall function and developing biomarkers for coronary artery disease. Professor Mahmoudi is a member of several notable associations, including the American College of Cardiology and the British Cardiovascular Society.

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Dr Scott W Murray is a highly trained NHS and private consultant in the field of cardiology and is currently based in Wirral and Liverpool. His range of expertise includes cardiology, cardiovascular CT, preventative cardiology, atherosclerosis imaging, coronary artery disease and cardio-metabolic health.  Dr Murray initially trained at the University of Glasgow and graduated with a First Class Honours BSc in Sports and Exercise Medicine in 1999. After this he achieved his MB ChB in Medicine in 2001, he trained in house officer posts in Scotland before moving in 2002 to Liverpool. During his time in Liverpool he gained MRCP, CCT in Cardiology and an MD. This Doctor of Medicine thesis concerned the role of IVUS in coronary plaque diagnostics. In 2014 he finished his training and secured a consultant job between Royal Liverpool Hospital and Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital. In 2016 he was appointed as one of the first substantive Preventive Cardiologists in the UK. Around this time he also became the President of The British Association for Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation (BACPR). This national role allowed him to leverage the profile of prevention and rehab in the UK and he was involved in its inclusion within the NHS long-term plan. In 2017 he completed work on the CVD prevention strategy for Liverpool City and was the demand and prevention lead for the Cheshire and Merseyside STP. Having worked in leadership roles both nationally and locally, in 2020 he moved to work for Wirral University Teaching Hospitals as a consultant cardiologist with plans to try and improve hospital cardiology collaboration and sustainability across the whole of Cheshire and Merseyside, utilising the health and care social partnership as a vehicle for change.

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Dr Ali Hamaad is a highly-skilled consultant cardiologist who has vast extensive knowledge about the majority of cardiovascular conditions. His specialist treatments involve heart failure, cardiac arrhythmias (particularly atrial fibrillation), blackouts, fainting, and syncope.   Dr Hamaad graduated from the University of Birmingham in 1999. His specialist training continued in the form of the West Midlands cardiology training programme and at the University Hospital North Staffordshire. As well as working as a consultant cardiologist at the Walsall Hospitals NHS Trust since 2010, Dr Hamaad has two private practices; one at the BMI The Priory Hospital in Birmingham and the other is Spire Little Aston, Sutton, Coldfield.  His extensive training has made him highly specialised in heart failure, pacemakers and heart rhythm disturbances, he is an expert in many procedures such as ECG (electrocardiogram) interpretation, cardiac catheterisation, echocardiography (heart scanning), as well as simple and complex pacemaker implantation.  

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Dr Khalid Khan is a consultant cardiologist and general medicine specialist whose areas of expertise are in cardiovascular medicine. He specialises in cardiac arrhythmias, heart failure, angina, cardiomyopathies, and other forms of coronary heart disease, valve disease and inherited cardiac conditions as well as sudden death and high blood pressure, cardiac risk assessment and screening. He has considerable expertise in the assessment and management of patients with chest pain, palpitations, breathlessness, dizziness blackouts, or loss of consciousness. Dr Khan graduated from St John’s College, Cambridge in 1994 and further trained in Newcastle, Cambridge, and Leicester. He completed his specialist training in both cardiology and general internal medicine in Liverpool. Dr Khan is an honorary lecturer at Cardiff University and a visiting lecturer at several other universities. He is involved in both undergraduate and postgraduate medical education in the UK and abroad. He is a well established expert witness both in the UK and internationally and regularly gives evidence in civil, criminal, coroner, tribunal, and disciplinary cases as well as undertaking independent reviews for Trusts and the Health Ombudsman.

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Dr Shelley Rahman Haley is a consultant cardiologist in London, Harefield and Hemel Hempstead, who specialises in heart valve disease, particularly mitral and aortic valve disease, and transoesophageal echocardiography. Dr Rahman Haley also has an interest in heart problems in cancer patients (cardio-oncology) who are undergoing chemotherapy or other treatment that may affect the heart. Dr Rahman Haley qualified from Cambridge University School of Clinical Medicine in 1995. She trained in cardiology with a sub-specialist interest in non-interventional cardiology, echocardiography and cardiac imaging at Papworth, Royal Brompton and St Thomas’ Hospitals. She was appointed as the first Clinical Lead for echocardiography at Harefield Hospital in 2007. Dr Rahman Haley now focuses on research connected with mechanical circulatory support, cardiac and lung transplantation and heart valve disease. She has co-authored papers in high-impact journals including Circulation and the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

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Dr Jonathan Pitts Crick is a highly acclaimed consultant cardiologist, practising privately at Nuffield Health and The Spire in Bristol. His areas of expertise include pacemakers, arrhythmias, hypertension, breathlessness, chest pain and complex diagnostic cases and holistic cardiology.  Dr Pitts Crick trained at King's College London and completed a D.Phil in biomedical engineering at Sussex University. In 1989 he was appointed consultant cardiologist at the Bristol Royal Infirmary, where he helped to establish the angioplasty programme and set up the electrophysiology department which was the first in the UK to undertake RF catheter ablation. He worked as a consultant cardiologist at Bristol Heart Institute from 2009 to 2015. In his practice, Dr Pitts Crick offers an integrated approach to heart-related illness including advice on all aspects of cardiac arrhythmias, pacemaker optimisation, heart failure and cardiomyopathy management, angina, stress testing and controlling blood pressure. He looks at the person and lifestyle and not just the disease. In the last 10 years, he has become increasingly interested in illness as a functional problem of the whole patient and has developed non-drug approaches to the treatment for breathlessness and fatigue. He has carried out much research on pacemakers and ICD technology based on his D.Phil. in bioengineering and has more than 30 scientific publications including 11 research papers in peer-reviewed journals, 3 patents, invited review articles and presentations to national and international congresses.  He has recently given invited lectures in Bristol and Boston (USA) on a new feed-back model of chronic illness and how this opens up new methods of treatment.  He also speaks regularly at local meetings organised by The Spire and Nuffield Health hospitals. He is a member of the British Cardiovascular Society and Heart Rhythm UK. 

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