e-Consultation with Cardiologists

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Dr John Gerry Coghlan is a leading consultant cardiologist based in London, who specialises in pulmonary hypertension and all aspects of cardiology, including complex breathlessness, arrhythmias, connective tissue disease (related to heart disease) and angina. Dr Coghlan is an honorary senior lecturer at UCH London and a visiting consultant at Papworth Hospital Cambridge, where he performs balloon pulmonary angioplasty. He is also a visiting consultant at St Thomas' Hospital, Kings College Hospital, Royal United Hospital Bath, Queen Alexandra Hospital Portsmouth, Derriford Hospital Plymouth and Ulster Hospital Dundonald. Dr Coghlan graduated from University College Dublin in 1983 and trained in cardiology at the National Cardiac Centre, Dublin, Harefield Hospital and The Royal Free Hospital, London. He is a founder member of the National Pulmonary Hypertension Physicians Association and developed the Royal Free National Pulmonary Hypertension Service. He holds research interests in fields of pulmonary hypertension, cardiac imaging and ischaemic heart disease and has published over 200 papers in peer-reviewed journals. Throughout his career, he has won awards such as the Molloy prize in 1978 and a silver medal in surgery in 1983, amongst others.

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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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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 Dawn Adamson is a leading consultant cardiologist who specialises in general and interventional cardiology and also leads the clinical service of ACHD and Obstetric Cardiology at UHCW.  She assists private patients' at Nuffield Warwick Hospital and BMI The Meriden Hospital, two well-known hospitals with first-class care. Her areas of expertise include, but are not limited to, coronary artery disease, congenital heart disease and valvular disease. She also specialises in obstetric cardiology, the field of cardiology for women with heart disease or suspected heart disease who are pregnant or want to become pregnant. In fact, she is recognised nationally and internationally for her work in obstetric cardiology and has written the Oxford Handbook of Heart Disease and pregnancy. She also offers cardiac screening, heart disease prevention and interventional treatments.  She has gained numerous achievements throughout her career. Dr Adamson is part of a large primary angioplasty service and was elected to appear on the programme committee for the British Cardiovascular Society.  She is now secretary for the West Midlands Physicians Association and treasurer of the UK maternal Cardiac Society.  She also sits on the NHS England Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest steering committee.  Furthermore, she is an avid researcher and has contributed to her field with medical research into interventional and obstetric cardiology. Dr Adamson also works closely with a number of aeromedical examiners offering CAA certification at PAPL, class 1 and 2 levels.

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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 Neil Hobson is a leading consultant cardiologist based at the Spire Hull and East Riding Hospital. His areas of expertise lie in treating palpitations, atrial fibrillation, shortness of breath, heart failure, chest pain and unexplained blackouts and falls. Dr Hobson underwent specialist cardiology training in Sheffield. After researching the use of stress echocardiography in assessing the haemodynamic profiles of native and prosthetic heart valves, he produced original research publications in this area and achieved his medical degree in 2005. He also continued his training in the field of interventional electrophysiology and obtained his fellowship at The Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney, Australia. Whilst there, he was trained extensively in the management of cardiac arrhythmias. Dr Hobson currently practices at Spire Hull and East Riding Hospital and provides electrophysiological ablation of cardiac arrhythmias and atrial fibrillation ablations to a regional population of over 1 million. He is also committed to screening patients with a family history of sudden cardiac death (SCD) and routinely offers treatment to those considered at high risk with the implantation of cardiac pacemakers. Furthermore, he has a clinical interest in treating patients with heart failure using pioneering biventricular pacemakers. Dr Hobson was one of the very few cardiologists to receive a certificate of accreditation from the British Society of Echocardiography, which recognised his practical and theoretical understanding of cardiac echocardiography.

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Dr Edward Petzer is a consultant cardiologist with exceptional experience in heart failure, cardiac device implantation, and faints and falls (syncope).  Heart failure management is the cornerstone of Dr Petzer's practice and he uses the latest technology in cardiac diagnoses and treatment for all patients, including those in need of device therapy. In 2019, he was the lead in device therapy at Darent Valley Hospital. Dr Petzer is a surgical device specialist who is classed as a high volume complex operator: he performs over 700 device implantation procedures per year, including the LINQ implant, pacemakers, internal cardiac defibrillators and cardiac resynchronising devices. Furthermore, he is a pioneer in SUBQ technology, which is a novel way to implant defibrillators that wrap around the chest, rather than be implanted directly into the heart. He is also extensively trained and skilled in the treatment of palpitations, dizziness, breathlessness, blackouts, falls and faints (syncope), and PoTs (postural tachycardia syndrome). Dr Petzer recently led the first NHS syncope service of South East England, and runs the one-stop clinic for faints, falls and fits at KIMS Hospital, Maidstone. Dr Petzer is an avid scientific medical researcher. In 2006, his cutting edge research resulted in a poster presentation at Heart Rhythm in Boston. He has published numerous research papers in renowned scientific journals.

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Professor Christoph Nienaber is an internationally recognised consultant cardiologist based in London who specialises in the diagnosis and treatment of aortic pathology. His areas of expertise include non-surgical aortic interventions in dissection, aneurysm and coarctation of the aorta. He is an expert in complex coronary interventions, non-invasive diagnostics, hypertension (high blood pressure), inherited heart diseases and thoracic endovascular aortic repair. Professor Nienaber began his academic career at University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany. He then took a temporary position at the University California School of Medicine before returning to Hamburg. From there he chaired internal medicine and cardiology at Rostock University Hospital in Germany. He began practising in the UK in 2015 when he was appointed as a consultant in Cardiology and Aortopathy at Royal Brompton Hospital in London. He is now a member of the British Society of Interventional Cardiology and an internationally renowned specialist in interventional cardiology and aortopathy practising at various sites in London. In addition to his consultant work, Professor Nienaber is a scientific teacher and an international lecturer. He has served on various international guideline committees such as the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), and has been involved in high profile medico-legal cases in Germany, the UK and the USA. Professor Christoph Nienaber conducts research in the field of advanced interventional approaches to coronary, aortic and structural heart disease and has published numerous papers in peer-reviewed journals. He has also pioneered novel endovascular techniques for the treatment of aortic dissection and has led and participated in guideline-changing trials.

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Dr Deven Patel is a leading cardiologist based in the London area at the Wellington Hospital, Spire Bushey Hospital, and the Royal Free Hospital. He specialises in chest pain, angina, coronary angiography and intervention - stenting, and acute myocardial infaction. He has wide experience in managing arrhythmias including atrial fibrillation, valvular heart disease, hypertension, and in heart failure. Dr Patel qualified from the University of London, and trained in cardiology at The Royal Free, Royal Brompton, and Harefield Hospitals. He is a well-established consultant of over 20 years standing, working in the NHS at The Royal Free and Barnet Hospitals. He has been the lead cardiologist at Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals for over eight years and was instrumental in developing a catheter laboratory service at Barnet Hospital. He has an extensive private practice and receives a high level of referrals based on personal recommendation and for second opinions. Dr Patel has training and experience in all areas of cardiology, but his specialty has focused in the last 15 years on the assessment of chest pain and angina, coronary angiography, intervention and stenting. He has a particular interest in complex coronary intervention undertaking intravascular imaging and pressure wire studies, using rotablation prior to stenting. The majority of interventional procedures are undertaken via the arm using the radial artery. He has been involved in research into coronary artery disease, CT coronary angiography, and acute coronary syndromes.

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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 Munmohan Singh Virdee is a leading cardiologist and electrophysiologist based in Cambridge, UK. He specialises in cardiac electrophysiology, performing device implants and catheter ablations for all types of cardiac arrhythmias, including for atrial fibrillation. He has a particular expertise in implanting biventricular pacemakers and defibrillators that deliver cardiac resynchronisation therapy for heart failure, and device extraction. Dr Virdee graduated in 1994 from the medical school of Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals, having also intercalated a BSc in Radiological Sciences in 1991. He trained as a junior doctor on London's prestigious golden circuit, before becoming a BHF research fellow at St George’s Hospital. In 2006, he was appointed at Papworth Hospital, where he now practices as a consultant cardiologist and electrophysiologist. He is a proud member of Heart Rhythm UK and the British Cardiovascular Society. His research work with the University of Cambridge, related to his expertise in implanting biventricular devices, has been presented at many international conferences and he has contributed to many medical publications in this field.

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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 Mitra is a leading consultant cardiologist at Spire Cardiff Hospital, the Royal Glamorgan Hospital and the University Hospital of Wales. He is an expert in all aspects of cardiology, with particular expertise in the management of angina & heart attacks due to coronary disease. Dr Mitra performs procedures such a coronary angiography and coronary angioplasty. Dr Mitra has a special interest in Interventional cardiology, and has research interests in atrial fibrillation, coronary artery disease, and cardiac rehabilitation. He offers a range of cardiac diagnostic tests, such as ECG, echocardiography, exercise treadmill testing, heart rhythm monitors. After initially qualifying from the University of Calcutta, Dr Mitra went on to train in South Wales, Newcastle and London. He obtained his MD research degree from the University of London in 2005. Dr Mitra has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed medical journals.

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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 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 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 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 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 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 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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