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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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Dr Syed Ahsan is a leading consultant cardiologist based in London who has been nominated for and won 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 palpitations, chest pains, shortness of breath and high blood pressure. Dr Ahsan graduated from Guys Kings and St Thomas’ Medical School in 2000 and undertook cardiology specialist training at prestigious hospitals in London, working with world-renowned experts. His post-graduate medical doctorate was awarded from University College London and has produced pioneering work that was also awarded by the Royal Society of Medicine National Prize in 2009. This was then presented internationally across Europe and the USA. 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 performs 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. In addition, he is an honorary consultant at North Middlesex University Hospital where he also established the first cardiac ablation service in North London. 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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Please phone Dr Sarev's office on 0122375800 or email Lynette on lynette.shuckford@nhs.net to book an appointment. Dr Toomas Sarev is leading consultant interventional cardiologist in Great Yarmouth and Norwich, who covers all aspects of diagnosing and management of heart-related problems in adults including chest pain, angina, heart attacks, heart rhythm disturbances and palpitations, heart failure, valvular diseases, arterial hypertension and pacemakers. He is also interested in questions related to healthy lifestyle, diets, exercise physiology and weight loss.   Dr Sarev graduated from Tartu University, Estonia in 1988 and performed further training in internal medicine and cardiology at Tampere University Hospital, Finland.   From 2002-2010 he worked as an interventional cardiologist at Karolinska and Danderyd University Hospitals in Stockholm, Sweden. He worked for four months at the Salam Centre for Cardiovascular Surgery, Khartoum, Sudan before his post as a consultant cardiologist at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals.    Dr Sarev is an honorary senior lecturer at the University of East Anglia where he teaches second-year medical students about the cardiac cycle and angiography.   He speaks English, Estonian, Swedish, Finnish and Russian.

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Dr Sen Sankar is a leading cardiologist based in the Wirral, who specialises in adult cardiology and cardiac imaging. 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 Simon Pearse is an experienced consultant cardiologist who sees patients at Kingston Private Health and the New Victoria Hospital. Dr Pearse also sees patients at his NHS practice at Kingston and St George's Hospitals, where he is a key member of the cardiology team. He has a wide experience of general cardiology, and he also has a specialist interest in heart failure, pacemakers and complex device therapy. Dr Pearse is skilled at performing angiography and implanting pacemakers, Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators (ICDs), Cardiac Resynchronisation Therapy (CRT/biventricular pacing) and Implantable Loop Recorders (ILRs/Reveal devices). Dr Pearse graduated with distinction from Edinburgh University before completing foundation training in the west of Scotland. Dr Pearse had core medical training at Charing Cross and Hammersmith hospitals prior to training in cardiology on the north-west London rotation. This included specialist fellowships in heart failure and devices at Harefield and the Royal Brompton Hospital. Dr Pearse was awarded his MD (Res) from Imperial College London for research in heart failure, devices and sleep apnoea with Professor Cowie and the heart failure service at the Royal Brompton Hospital and National Heart and Lung Institute. Dr Pearse has an interest in medical education and is a member of the BCS Education Committee. He is an active researcher and is the UK Chief Investigator for the PERSEPOLIS study and was the co-investigator for the IRONMAN and ISCOMAT trials. Dr Pearse recently won a Greenshoots research award for his contribution. Dr Pearse has published in leading international journals and has presented at international conferences. 

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Dr Manas Sinha is a vastly experienced consultant cardiologist based mainly in Wiltshire, also attending to patients in Dorset and Hampshire. He specialises in all areas of cardiology, particularly cardiac screening, high blood pressure and angina. His personalised patient care over twenty-five years of experience, thirteen of those as a consultant, has enabled him to grow into one of the most respected cardiologists in his region.   After graduating from St George's, University of London in 1994, Dr Sinha received his MD for research in acute coronary syndromes. He later received cardiology training in both London and Wessex before accepting consultant cardiologist positions at both Salisbury District Hospital and Nuffield Health Bournemouth.   Dr Sinha is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, which is one of the highest honours that can be given to a physician. Additionally, he is a member of numerous organisations including the British Medical Association, British Cardiovascular Interventional Society, General Medical Council and Medical Defence Union. He has also written and contributed to numerous cardiological publications.

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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 Aftab Gill is a renowned consultant cardiologist with advanced expertise in interventional cardiology and general cardiology. Dr Gill uses his leading expertise to provide patients with the management of numerous conditions. This includes, but is certainly not limited to, palpitations, irregular heart rhythms (arrhythmia), high blood pressure (hypertension), chest pain, and heart failure. Furthermore, he is highly skilled in interventional procedures such as pacemaker implantation of complex devices as well as diagnostic tests such as CT coronary angiography. His studies and training took place at the University of Bristol, which was then followed by a prestigious British Heart Foundation junior fellowship to complete two years of research at the Bristol Heart Institute. After this, he relocated to the West Midlands to complete his specialist training in cardiology. Dr Gill was then awarded an international fellowship in Canada at the Ottawa Heart Institute. This fellowship gave him the opportunity to further advance his coronary angioplasty skills.  Dr Gill provides his patients with the utmost quality of patient care and attention. He does this by keeping up to date with the latest techniques and by ensuring his patients are fully informed about their condition and treatment options for their individual needs.

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Dr Mark Gallagher is a leading London cardiologist who sees patients at Spire St Anthony's Hospital, BMI The Runnymede Hospital and St George's Hospital NHS Trust, London. He has been the Clinical Lead in electrophysiology at St George's for over ten years and is consistently the busiest electrophysiologist in the region, performing 450-500 procedures yearly. Dr Gallagher's field of particular interest is ablation for atrial fibrillation and other complex atrial arrhythmias. Dr Gallagher attended medical school and completed basic medical training and initial training in cardiology in Ireland. He later moved to St George's Hospital, London in 1996 to pursue subspecialist training in cardiac electrophysiology and pacing. Dr Gallagher was a research fellow and later became a registrar and senior registrar at St George's between 1996 and 2002. At the beginning of 2003, Dr Gallagher moved to Rome, Italy where he started an interventional EP unit in the new university hospital "Policlinico Tor Vergata". Dr Gallagher transferred from Rome to Cardiff in 2007 before returning the following year to St George's Hospital. 

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Professor Peter Groves is a highly-experienced Consultant Cardiologist in Cardiff who is an expert in assessing and treating a full range of cardiac conditions that present with symptoms such as chest pain, breathlessness, palpitations, dizzy spells and blackouts. Professor Groves also specialises in structural heart disease and performs non-invasive cardiac testing as well as minimally invasive treatments including TAVI, percutaneous device ASD and PFO closure and mitral balloon valvuloplasty. Professor Groves provides a 'one-stop' Cardiology clinic service that comprises clinical assessment and non-invasive cardiac testing at the same visit to minimize inconvenience and ensure that a rapidly responsive expert opinion is available to patients. Professor Groves is an Honorary Professor at Cardiff University and an Honorary Professor at the William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary University London

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Professor Attila Kardos is a leading consultant cardiologist based at the Milton Keynes University Hospital BMI Saxon Clinic in Milton Keynes and The Manor Hospital in Oxford. His areas of expertise include chest pain, palpitations, breathlessness, valve disease, cardiovascular imaging,  general cardiology cardio-oncology and heart screening. Professor Kardos graduated with a distinction in 1988 from Albert Szent-Györgyi Medical School Szeged in Hungary. Whilst practising as a junior doctor at Szeged University, he spent two years at the Heart Centre in Bad Krozingen as a research fellow. He then went on to receive his research fellowship of the European Society of Cardiology which allowed him to work for almost five years as a fellow at the University Department of Cardiovascular Medicine in Oxford. Throughout his career, Professor Kardos has published and presented over 100 peer-reviewed papers and has given various lectures in over 140 national and international conferences, of which he has been a keynote speaker. He is also a member of the Scientific Committee of the XVIIIth – XXIth Congresses of the European Society of Cardiology. In 2003, Professor Kardos was appointed as a consultant cardiologist at Milton Keynes University Hospital where he is now the Vice-Chair of Research and Development. He has established several cardiac services at Milton Keynes, such as contrast-enhanced stress echocardiography for chest pain assessment, and introduced invasive coronary angiography and permanent pacemaker implantation. In addition, he is an honorary senior lecturer to the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at Nuffield Department of Medicine at the University of Oxford and was awarded a personal Chair in Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Buckingham in 2018.

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Dr Resham Baruah is a leading consultant cardiologist at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London who specialises in heart failure, valvular heart disease, cardio-oncology, pulmonary hypertension, cardiac imaging and cardiomyopathies. Dr Baruah qualified from Imperial College London with distinction in 2004 and underwent her postgraduate specialist training in North West London. She has received specialist training in cardio-oncology, cardiac sarcoidosis and pulmonary hypertension. Dr Baurah was awarded a first-class honours degree in cardiovascular sciences. She completed her PhD in periodic breathing and heart failure in 2010, both of which from Imperial College, with numerous publications in heart failure. Dr Baruah is an honorary senior clinical lecturer at Imperial College, London. In 2018, Dr Baruah was the Specialist Advisor to the NICE chronic heart failure guidelines.

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Chris Malkin is a highly rated consultant interventional cardiologist based in Leeds. He specialises in TAVI (keyhole aortic valve implantation) , coronary intervention (stents), valvular heart disease, chest pain and hypertension. Dr Malkin trained in Sheffield obtained an honours degree and post-graduate MD. In 2010, he was awarded a prestigious BCIS training fellowship (British Cardiac Interventional Society) and spent a year of higher training in South Australia. In 2010 Dr Malkin was appointed consultant interventional cardiologist at the Leeds Teaching Hospitals.  and is now one of the highest volume operators in the region. He is highly skilled in coronary intervention and has excellent outcomes - all of which are published annually on the NHS Choices website. He is also a leading member of the Leeds trans-catheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) programme and performs more than 400 aortic valve interventions annually. In addition to his consultancy work, he co-operates in important clinical trials of new technologies and training programmes for start-up centres, most recently starting a programme of non surgical mitral valve repair (mitraclip). Dr Malkin performs training and proctoring for TAVI procedures all round the world; most recently in India and Taiwan Dr Malkin takes time to make a correct diagnosis in his patients to ensure they receive the most accurate information. He believes in open discussion and will assist his patients in making suitable choices to for their health.

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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 Matthew Balerdi is a renowned consultant imaging cardiologist with over 15 years of experience. His specialist expertise covers all aspects of general cardiology and he is particularly recognised for his skill in all aspects of cardiac ultrasound, from routine scans to complex scans. He strives to provide the utmost care and attention to his patients and their needs, as well as supporting the general cardiology service across the region. His areas of expertise include, but are not limited to, cardiac imaging, valvular heart disease, adult congenital heart disease, inherited cardiac conditions (non-arrhythmic), complex echocardiography (including stress echocardiography, transoesophageal echocardiography, contrast echocardiography and bubble echocardiogram).What's more, he is a specialist in nuclear cardiology and was secretary of the BNCS (British Nuclear Cardiac Society). After graduating from the University of Bristol with Honours in BSc in anatomy, Dr Balerdi was selected to enter in the University of Leiceter's first four year cohort and completed the MBChB with distinction in the clinical examinations. After this, he underwent vigorous training in cardiology across several hospitals. He has gained many achievements throughout his career, including becoming the lead for adult congenital heart disease in Hull and the cardiac imaging lead for Northern Lincolnshire and Goole. 

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Dr Riyaz Kaba is a leading consultant cardiologist with over 25 years of experience. He cares for patients with a wide range of cardiac conditions, including atrial fibrillation, heart failure, palpitations, breathlessness, syncope (fainting) and chest pain. He regularly performs curative interventional procedures and specialises in implanting both standard and complex pacemakers. In fact, he is one of the first operators in the world to implant the state-of-the-art Quadripolar LV Lead pacemaker to treat a patient with severe heart failure. Dr Kaba graduated from the University of Dundee and proceeded to undergo training as a junior doctor at King's College Hospital London, where he reached molecular and cellular cardiology at the National Heart & Lung Institute at the Royal Brompton Hospital. During his training, he was granted an advanced fellowship at the prestigious IVY League institution of Columbia University, New York. He has been recognised nationally and internationally: he has received several academic awards and been presented with international awards from America and Europe. 

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Dr John Rex Dawson is a leading consultant cardiologist who practises at The London Clinic in Marylebone. His areas of expertise include coronary artery disease, hypertension, high cholesterol, heart failure management and transoesophageal echocardiogram. Dr Dawson graduated from the University of Birmingham Medical School in 1975. His training in cardiology was undertaken at Hillingdon, St Thomas', Royal Brompton and St George's Hospitals before he became a consultant cardiologist at St Bartholomew's and The Royal London Hospital. Dr Dawson's training in cardiology was extremely comprehensive but he developed three specific areas of interest during his 25 years as an NHS consultant. This was in interventional cardiology, echocardiography and valvular heart disease.  Dr Dawson has written or contributed to papers, chapters and abstracts, which have been published in books and journals including Heart, European Journal of Cardiology and New England Journal of Medicine.

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Dr Paramjit Jeetley is a leading consultant cardiologist in London. He is a leading expert in all aspects of his field and dedicates his profession to ensuring patients receive the highest possible level of care. He has subspecialist interests in heart failure management and cardiac imaging - particularly echocardiography of which he has undergone advanced training of the use of complex studies with stress echo and transoesophageal echo. His wide range of expertise also consists of valvular heart disease, advanced renal disease, ischaemia testing for coronary artery disease, and cardiac CT.  Since 2001, Dr Jeetley has been a consultant at the Royal Free Hospital, where he has also been Clinical Director since 2016. As Clinical Director, he provides leadership for the hospital's cardiology department as well as community-based services in Barnet and Enfield. He practices privately at the Royal Free Hospital and Hospital of St John & St Elizabeth. As well as greatly committing to patient care, he also contributes to research in his field. Dr Jeetley is currently involved in a number of research projects relating to cardio-renal disease as well as contributing to the conception, analysis and writing of publications relating to cardiology care and the recent COVID-19 pandemic.

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Dr Naveen Mudalagiri is a highly-experienced consultant cardiologist who is an expert in the diagnosis and management of a wide range of cardiac problems. His areas of expertise include chest pain, heart attacks, shortness of breath, palpitations, heart operations, angioplasty (stent insertion) and hypertension. Dr Mudalagiri completed his undergraduate and postgraduate training in London, receiving his MB BS from the University of London in 1999. He later obtained his fellowship from the Royal College of Physicians in 2017. He currently practises privately around London and Kent, including the BMI London Independent Hospital, KIMS Hospital and London Bridge Hospital. He is part of the Kent primary angioplasty service providing emergency treatment for patients diagnosed with a heart attack. Aside from his areas of expertise, he provides specialist treatment and investigations for various heart rhythm disorders, including pacemaker implantation, valvular heart disease and heart failure. Dr Mudalagiri is a certified member of both the British Society of Echocardiography and the British Society of Cardiovascular Imaging. He is also Chairman for the Kent, Surrey, Sussex and London Educational Facility and an advisory member for the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). He is also a member on various Royal College of Physicians committees. Dr Mudalagiri offers a complete cardiac service to patients in a welcoming and comfortable environment. Moreover, he believes in educating patients and working closely with them to reach the best long-term outcome possible. You can view all of Dr Mudalagiri's reviews on IWantGreatCare here.

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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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