Cardiology consultants

Charis Antoniades is a full Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and Consultant Cardiologist.

He is the Director of the Acute Vascular Imaging Centre of the University of Oxford, the Deputy Head of the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine and director of the Oxford Academic cardiovascular CT programme (and Core Lab). He is also the Chair of the British Atherosclerosis Society. He runs a hypertension clinic for Oxford University Hospitals.

His research is focused on the study of the cross-talk between adipose tissue and the cardiovascular system, with specific interest in the non-invasive imaging of inflammation.

His research has led to the development of novel imaging biomarkers using Computed Tomography, with major role in cardiovascular risk prognosis.

Special interests

• Hypertension
• Cardiovascular CT

Research interests

• Understanding of the cross-talk between adipose tissue and the cardiovascular system, focused on developing novel imaging biomarkers of tissue characterisation or therapeutic targets for cardiovascular diseases
• Artificial intelligence and big data in medical imaging
• Advanced cardiovascular CT

Contact details

Alina Florea: 01865 221745
Email: alina.florea@cardiov.ox.ac.uk

Professor Banning has been in Oxford for more than 25 years.

He specialises in treatment of angina heart attack and the treatment of heart valve problems.

He leads a number of international trials and has published more than 500 original research articles in PUBMED.

He lectures and teaches cardiac intervention around the world and has been President of the British Cardiac Intervention Society.

He also sees and treats private patients at the John Radcliffe Hospital and Manor Hospital in Oxford.

Special interests

• Interventional cardiology
  
• Stents
  
• TAVI
  
• Left main coronary disease
  
• Bifurcation disease
  
• Revascularisation in multivessel disease
  
• Angina and chest pain
  
• New medical devices
  

Contact details

Janet Kinsey: 01865 228934
Email: janet.kinsey@ouh.nhs.uk

Private

thecardiologist.co.uk

Dr Yaver Bashir graduated at Cambridge and Oxford Universities. His general medical training was in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, followed by cardiology and subspecialty training in cardiac electrophysiology and devices at Oxford and St George's Hospital.

He was appointed Consultant Cardiologist at Oxford University Hospitals in 1995 and established the regional cardiac electrophysiology service. He has been the Clinical Director since 2014.

Special interests

• Cardiac arrhythmias
• Healthcare management

Contact details

Kayleigh Morris: kayleigh.morris@ouh.nhs.uk

Private

Jenny Wright
Email: yaver.bashir@nuffieldhealth.com

Professor Tim Betts is a consultant cardiologist who specialises in treating heart rhythm problems. He was appointed to his consultant post in 2004 after having trained in the UK and Chicago.

He works predominantly for Oxford University Hospitals, but also for the Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, and is an Associate Professor in Cardiovascular Medicine in the University of Oxford Department of Cardiovascular Medicine.

Special interests

• Atrial fibrillation
• Arrhythmias
• Biventricular pacing
• Blackouts
• Catheter ablation
• Cardiac resynchronisation therapy (CRT)
• Devices to treat heart failure
• Implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs)
• Lead extraction
• Left atrial appendage occlusion (LAAO) to prevent stroke in patients with AF
• Pacemakers
• Palpitations
• Sudden cardiac death
• SVT
• Syncope

Research interests

• Treating atrial fibrillation
• Preventing atrial fibrillation from causing strokes
• New technologies to understand and treat arrhythmias
• Novel technologies to treat heart failure

Contact details

Kayleigh Morris: 01865 220256
Email: drbetts.pa@ouh.nhs.uk

Private

Linda Howley: 07590 940788
Email: tim.betts@nuffieldhealth.com
www.oxfordheart.org

Harry Boardman trained in London and Oxford. His research concerned female cardiovascular risk, exploring the relationships to HRT and pregnancy complications.

He was the first UK Cochrane fellow and awarded a DPhil in cardiovascular medicine by the University of Oxford.

He worked as a Consultant Cardiologist at Milton Keynes University Hospital for six years before transferring to Oxford University Hospitals.

Special interests

• Heart failure
• Cardiac imaging including MRI
• Maternal cardiology

Contact details

Megan Foster: megan.foster@ouh.nhs.uk

Dr Tom Cahill is a Consultant Cardiologist at the John Radcliffe Hospital specialising in valve disorders, structural heart disease and coronary artery disease.

His expertise encompasses the full spectrum of transcatheter procedures for structural heart disease, including complex interventions in patients with prior valve replacement. He also specialises in catheter intervention for the treatment of coronary artery disease.

Dr Cahill graduated from the University of Cambridge (Queens' College) with a double first and trained in clinical medicine at University College London. Following rotations in London and Oxford, he undertook training in Interventional Cardiology at the John Radcliffe Hospital. He then spent two years at the internationally-renowned Columbia University Medical Center in New York, learning state-of-the-art approaches for the treatment of valvular and structural heart disease.

Dr Cahill has extensive experience in medical research and completed a DPhil (PhD) at the University of Oxford in 2017. He has published over 50 peer-reviewed papers, contributed to the leading cardiology textbooks, and lectures nationally and internationally.

He is currently Lecturer in Clinical Medicine at Balliol College, University of Oxford.

Special interests

• Valvular heart disease
• Structural heart disease
• Coronary artery disease

Procedures include:

• Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI)
• Transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (TEER)
• Transcatheter mitral/tricuspid valve replacement
• Atrial septal defect closure
• Patent foramen ovale closure
• Left atrial appendage occlusion
• Paravalvular leak closure
• Coronary angiography
• Coronary intervention (stent implantation)

Contact details

Natalie Brechin: 01865 220325
Email: natalie.brechin@ouh.nhs.uk

Professor Channon is the British Heart Foundation's Field Marshal Earl Alexander Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine.

He has been a cardiologist in Oxford for more than 25 years and is one of the UK's most experienced clinician-scientist, cardiologists, with a specialist interest in coronary heart disease, cholesterol and cardiovascular risk and coronary intervention.

He is a Fellow of the UK's Academy of Medical Sciences, has published more than 400 research papers and has held numerous national leadership roles in the British Cardiovascular Society and the British Cardiac Intervention Society.

He is currently Chairman of the NIHR-BHF Cardiovascular Partnership, across the leading UK cardiovascular centres. He continues to be a 'front line' general cardiologist as well as a specialist leader in his field.

Special interests

• Interventional cardiology
• Stents
• Coronary artery disease
• Cholesterol and cardiovascular risk
• High blood pressure

Research interests

• Coronary artery disease intervention
• Intracoronary imaging (IVUS, OCT)
• Coronary physiology
• Myocardial infarction (heart attack)
• Basic mechanisms in coronary artery disease and cardiovascular risk relating to cholesterol, blood pressure and blood flow
• Importance of pregnancy and pre-eclampsia in cardiovascular risk

Contact details

Simon Muncey: 01865 223365
Email: simon.muncey@ouh.nhs.uk

Private

Email: dianne.stafford@cardiov.ox.ac.uk

He has been a consultant (interventional cardiologist) in Oxford since 2005.

Special interests

• Coronary artery disease
• Coronary intervention
• Vascular risk management (lipids and diabetes)
• Assessment and management of patients with coronary artery disease.
• High-risk Vascular Clinic (cholesterol; Lp(a); diabetes; early onset atherosclerosis and recurrent disease)

Research interests

Characterisation of inflammation in cardiovascular diseases

Prof Choudhury is Co-PI of the MeRIAD programme, an international consortium funded by the NovoNordisk Foundation (£4.8 million) to elucidate new ways to characterise and treat inflammation in diabetes.

Radcliffe Department of Medicine - Roin Choudhury

Heart regeneration after acute myocardial infarction

Funded by the British Heart Foundation and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, the laboratory is working to define ways in which inflammation orchestrates processes of repair and regeneration after heart attack

Oxford Cardiovascular Science - BHF Centre of Regenerative Medicine

Contact details

NHS / Private

Simon Muncey: 01865 223365
Email: simon.muncey@ouh.nhs.uk

Dr d'Arcy is a Consultant Cardiologist with sub-specialty interests in aviation cardiology and cardiovascular imaging (particularly echocardiography and cardiac MRI), as well as valvular heart disease.

Dr d'Arcy qualified from the University of Edinburgh Medical School, and undertook her specialist training in Oxford. She holds a consultant post with Oxford University Hospitals, and works at both the John Radcliffe Hospital and the Horton General Hospital. During her training, she undertook research involving the use of echocardiography and cardiac MRI.

Dr d'Arcy has a wealth of experience in aviation cardiology, and is familiar with civilian and military requirements for licensing, for both pilots and ATCOs.

She holds the Diploma in Aviation Medicine, and regularly teaches on a variety of courses. She has presented at national and international meetings on aviation cardiology, and has been part of an international working group developing guidelines in this area.

Special interests

• Cardiology imaging
• Acute internal medicine
  

Research interests

• Aviation cardiology
• Echo
• Cardiac MRI
• Valvular heart disease

Contact details

NHS - John Radcliffe Hospital

Kim Crawford: 01865 220326
Email: kim.e.crawford@ouh.nhs.uk

NHS - Horton General Hospital

Vicky Bullen / Marta Tustian: 01295 224181
Email: vicky.bullen@ouh.nhs.uk / marta.tustian@ouh.nhs.uk

Private

Bryan d'Arcy: 07833 491720
Email: private.cardiology.pa@gmail.com
oxford-cardiology.com

He trained in London and Oxford and spent two years working at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, which is the busiest valve centre in the United States. During his time in California he trained in valve intervention, critical care and mechanical circulatory support.

Special interests

• Interventional cardiology
• Structural intervention
• Cardiac CT

Contact details

Natalie Wren: 01865 226567
Email: natalie.wren@ouh.nhs.uk

Private

Tel: 01865 598040
Email: clinic@samdawkins.com
www.samdawkins.com

Professor Vanessa Ferreira is Deputy Clinical Director of the Oxford Clinical Centre for Magnetic Resonance Research (OCMR) and Honorary Consultant Cardiologist in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Oxford.

She has expertise in the study of heart disease using cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging.

Professor Ferreira took her Bachelor of Science (SB) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA), MD and internal medicine residency at University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada), and cardiology fellowship at the University of Calgary (Canada).

She subsequently obtained a doctorate (DPhil) in Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Oxford.

Prof Ferreira's research focuses on clinical translation of quantitative maps of the heart using cardiac MRI scans.

One of her goals is to advance cardiac MRI methods to gain more insight into heart disease in ways not previously possible, in a non-invasive way.

Another is to minimise the need for injection of contrast agents for diagnostic images, allowing more patients to benefit from cardiac MRI, eliminating adverse reactions to contrast agents, and savings in time and cost.

Special interests

• Cardiology
• Cardiovascular magnetic resonance

Research interests

• Cardiology
• Cardiovascular magnetic resonance
• Quantitative CMR methods, T1-mapping

Contact details

Simon Muncey: 01865 223365
Email: simon.muncey@ouh.nhs.uk

Oxford Clinical Centre for Magnetic Resonance Research (OCMR) Reception: 01865 221172

Dr Gamble trained in Cambridge and Oxford, and was appointed as a consultant cardiologist at Oxford University Hospitals in 2017. He leads the Heart Failure Service, running two clinics a week seeing patients with heart failure and related issues.

His other specialist interest is cardiac implantable devices, and he undertakes procedures to implant pacemakers, defibrillators and cardiac resynchronisation therapy devices - normally over 100 of these most years.

Dr Gamble spent nearly three years undertaking research on cardiac resynchronisation therapy during his training and continues to be interested in research in this area.

He collaborates with colleagues on trials of new devices and techniques for these procedures. He is also involved in research on new medications for patients with heart failure.

Special interests

• Heart failure
• Implantable cardiac devices

Research interests

• Cardiac resynchronisation therapy
• Medical therapy for heart failure
• Ambulatory management of heart failure

Contact details

Emily Hambidge: 01865 221012
Email: drgamblesec@ouh.nhs.uk

Private

Tel: 01865 221012
www.drgamble.co.uk

Dr Matt Ginks is a consultant cardiologist and electrophysiologist at the John Radcliffe Hospital. He is involved in the investigation and treatment of patients with all forms of heart rhythm (arrhythmia) problems including catheter ablation and device therapy.

His research and clinical interests are centred around catheter ablation of complex cardiac arrhythmias, predominantly atrial fibrillation.

He is an active member of Heart Rhythm UK and has published over 50 peer reviewed papers.

Special interests

Cardiac rhythm management:

• patients with palpitations or blackout
• sudden cardiac death
• prevention of stroke in atrial fibrillation.

Procedures include:

• catheter ablation
• pacemaker or biventricular pacemaker implantation (cardiac resynchronisation therapy)
• implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs)
• lead extraction.

Research interests

Catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation

Contact details

Holli Richards: 01865 223172
Email: holli.richards@ouh.nhs.uk

Private

Email: manor.cardiac@nuffieldheath.com
www.oxfordheartdoctor.com

Professor Neil Herring completed his PhD (DPhil) and medical degree at the University of Oxford, before undertaking medical training in Bath, Northampton, London and as a Clinical Lecturer in Oxford.

After becoming a Consultant Cardiologist (CCT 2013), he was made an Associate Professor (2015) by the University of Oxford having been awarded a Fellowship from the British Heart Foundation.

Neil is also widely involved in medical school education as a Tutorial Fellow in Preclinical Medicine at Exeter College, Oxford.

Special interests

Cardiac pacing and rhythm management devices

Research interests

Neil's research group at the University of Oxford has received international recognition in the field of cardiovascular autonomic neuroscience.

Over the last 20 years, this research has identified a variety of neuromodulator molecules. The aim is to understand their pathophysiology, identify potential therapeutic targets for cardiovascular disease, and validate their utility as both treatments and biomarkers.

Contact details

Kayleigh Morris: 01865 220256
Email: kayleigh.morris@ouh.nhs.uk

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Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics

Exeter College

Dr David Holdsworth is an imaging cardiologist with a PhD in exercise physiology and metabolism. His principal interest is the use of cardiopulmonary exercise testing and exercise echo in the investigation of unexplained dyspnoea and exercise limitation in both civilian and military groups.

He is engaged in occupational military and aviation cardiology and is clinical lead of the Defence Aviation Medicine Consultation Service and also of the Defence COVID-19 Recovery Service.

In addition to cardiopulmonary exercise testing and exercise echo, he undertakes transoesophageal echo and cardiac CT.

He is Secretary of the European Association of Preventive Cardiology Task Force on Aviation and High Hazard Cardiology and a College Lecturer at St Hugh's College, Oxford.

Special interests

• Imaging cardiology and cardiopulmonary exercise testing
• Clinical:
  • Cardiac CT
  • TOE
  • Exercise limitation and unexplained breathlessness
• Research:
  • Cardiopulmonary physiology
  • Iron-deficiency
  • High-altitude physiology and hypoxia
  • Aviation and high-hazard cardiology

Contact details

Margaret Hunt: 01865 223160
Email: margaret.hunt@ouh.nhs.uk

Andrew Kelion has been a Consultant Cardiologist in Oxford since May 2013, having previously been Director of Imaging at Harefield Hospital. His main interest is in cardiac imaging, particularly nuclear cardiology, cardiovascular computed tomography (CT) and echocardiography.

Dr Kelion is a former Secretary, Treasurer and President of the British Nuclear Cardiology Society, Chair of the Imaging Council of the British Cardiovascular Society and previously Chair of the Secretary of State for Transport's Honorary Medical Advisory Panel on Driving and Disorders of the Cardiovascular System.

He was a Topic Expert on the NICE Committee which updated the Chest Pain of Recent Onset Guideline CG95, has co-authored a number of influential national documents and is a regular contributor to many national and international training courses and conferences.

Special interests

• Cardiology
• Nuclear cardiology
• Cardiovascular CT
• Echocardiography
• Investigation of suspected or known coronary artery disease
• Cardiovascular CT in adult congenital heart disease
• Cardio-oncology

Contact details

Margaret Hunt: 01865 223160
Email: margaret.hunt@ouh.nhs.uk

Private

Sally Kelion: 07816 603293
Email: kelionpa@hotmail.com

Prof Rajesh Kharbanda graduated from Edinburgh in 1991 and undertook specialist cardiology training in London and Cambridge, Toronto, and was appointed as an NHS consultant cardiologist in 2007.

He has a specialist interest in the assessment and treatment of coronary artery disease and heart valve disease. He is a Member of the British Cardiovascular Interventional Society and an Associate Professor, University of Oxford. He is active in clinical research in coronary artery and heart valve disease.

Special interests

• Coronary artery disease
• Heart valve disease

Contact details

Natalie Brechin: 01865 220325
Email: natalie.brechin@ouh.nhs.uk

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Professor Rajesh Kharbanda - Nuffield Health

His clinical interests are in general cardiology and in the prevention of cardiovascular disease and its complications.

Prof Landray's research focuses on the evaluation of medicines through large randomised clinical trials, chiefly of treatments for cardiovascular disease.

During the COVID-19 pandemic he used this experience to co-lead the RECOVERY trial, involving around 40,000 patients. This led to the discovery that the steroid drug dexamethasone improves the chances of survival for patients with severe disease, a result that was rapidly adopted worldwide.

Special interests

• General cardiology
• Preventative cardiovascular medicine
• Clinical pharmacology

Contact details

Simon Muncey: 01865 223365
Email: simon.muncey@ouh.nhs.uk

Professor Martin Landray - Oxford Cardiovascular Science

Having started his medical career in Cambridge and Oxford, Dr Jeremy Langrish completed his general medical and specialty cardiology training in Edinburgh specialising in coronary intervention, and then completed a British Cardiovascular Intervention Society fellowship in Adelaide, Australia before being appointed as a consultant cardiologist at the John Radcliffe Hospital in 2016.

He specialises in the treatment of complex coronary artery disease and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (Edinburgh).

Special interests

• General cardiology
• Interventional cardiology
• Complex coronary intervention
• Chronic total occlusion
• Myocardial infarction
• Calcium modification
• Coronary physiology
• Ventricular support
• Medical education and training

Contact details

Natalie Wren: 01865 226567
Email: natalie.wren@ouh.nhs.uk

He provides expertise in Cardiovascular Imaging, as well as General Cardiology and Cardiovascular Prevention through the Oxford Specialist Hypertension Clinic.

Special interests

• Cardiac imaging
• Hypertension
• General cardiology

Research interests

• Cardiac imaging
• Hypertension

Contact details

Margaret Hunt: 01865 223160
Email: margaret.hunt@ouh.nhs.uk

Private

Nuffield Health - Professor Paul Leeson

Dr Joanna Lim is a Consultant Cardiologist specialising in Adult Congenital Heart Disease.

She graduated from the University of Oxford in 2006. She completed general cardiology training in Oxford and then undertook higher specialist training in congenital heart disease in London from 2014 to 2019, completing fellowships at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, the Royal Brompton, St Thomas' Hospital and St Bartholomew's Hospital.

Dr Lim was appointed as a Consultant in Oxford in 2019. She holds two adult congenital heart disease clinics in Oxford each week and also runs monthly clinics at the Great Western Hospital, Swindon, and Milton Keynes University Hospital.

She has a keen interest in congenital transthoracic echocardiography and has a weekly echo list for scanning patients with particularly complex hearts.

Special interests

• Adult congenital heart disease
• Congenital echocardiography

Contact details

Abigail Connolly: 01865 223382
Email: abigail.connolly@ouh.nhs.uk

Having completed clinical and academic training in Edinburgh and South Australia, Andrew is an interventional cardiologist with a particular interest in complex and CTO PCI.

He is passionate about enabling patients to make fully informed decisions about their care. He regularly contributes on faculty at national and international meetings and is an active contributor to research utilising contemporary imaging and physiological assessment to optimise PCI outcomes.

Special interests

• General cardiology
• Interventional cardiology
• Complex and chronic total occlusion (CTO)
• PCI
• Imaging-based optimisation of PCI
• Cardiovascular effects of air pollution exposure
  

Contact details

Kim Crawford: 01865 220326
Email: kim.e.crawford@ouh.nhs.uk

Giovanni Luigi De Maria graduated from the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Rome (Italy) in 2008 and completed his training in General Cardiology at Policlinico A Gemelli in Rome in 2014.

He worked at Oxford University Hospitals as a Clinical Fellow in Interventional Cardiology from 2014 until 2018, when he became a consultant. In 2019 he completed his PhD in 'Clinical, Cellular and Molecular Research'.

His main subspecialty is represented by interventional cardiology with a special focus on coronary interventions. He performs both elective and emergency coronary procedures on a regular basis.

Special interests

• Interventional cardiology
  
  • Coronary interventions
    
  • Acute coronary syndrome
    
  • Coronary physiology
    
  • Intravascular imaging
    
  • Novel therapies in ST elevation myocardial infarction
    
  • Coronary microcirculation
    
  • Coronary thrombosis
    

Research interests

• coronary thrombosis
• myocardial injury
• coronary physiology
• coronary microcirculation

ultimately aiming at developing new diagnostic tools and novel therapies to improve the clinical outcome of patients with ischemic heart disease.

Contact details

Natalie Wren: 01865 226567
Email: natalie.wren@ouh.nhs.uk

Dr Shawn Morais is a consultant cardiologist who specialises in heart failure. Dr Morais qualified from the University of Manchester in 2009, and undertook his specialist training in West Yorkshire and Wessex. His subspecialty training was in heart failure, implantation of cardiac devices and echocardiography. He was appointed as a locum consultant cardiologist at Oxford University Hospitals in 2020.

He works with a team of consultants and specialist community and inpatient nurses to deliver heart failure care across the county. His main base is Horton General Hospital in Banbury where see patients in general cardiology clinic and specialist heart failure clinic, provides cardiology inreach and acute/general medicine.

He covers cardiology procedures (pacemakers and transoesophageal echocardiography) and specialist cardiology on-call at John Radcliffe Hospital.

Special interests

• Cardiology
• Acute and general medicine
• Heart failure
• Cardiac devices
• Echocardiography (including transoesophageal and stress echocardiography)

Contact details

Catherine Heath: 01295 229215
Email: catherine.heath@ouh.nhs.uk

Professor Saul Myerson qualified from the University of Bristol and completed further training in London and Oxford.
He is a general cardiologist, with experience in all areas of cardiology but a particular interest in heart valve disease. He specialises in cardiac imaging (especially cardiovascular magnetic resonance).

He is a member of the NICE Clinical Guideline Committee in Heart Valve Disease and is President of the British Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance.

He has published over 140 papers and given many national and international lectures, as well as being a writer and editor.

He has substantial experience in producing medicolegal reports, and is an expert witness for the GMC.

Special interests

Heart valve disease, cardiac imaging (particularly cardiac magnetic resonance and echocardiography)

Research interests

• Heart valve disease
• Aortic disease
• Cardiomyopathies

Contact details

Maggie Hunt: 01865 223160
Email: margaret.hunt@ouh.nhs.uk

Private

Email: secretary@oxfordcardiologist.com

Saul Myerson, Consultant Cardiologist, Oxford

Prof Stefan Neubauer's work has been devoted to the development and application of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (CMR) imaging and spectroscopy, and, in recent years, he has also been interested in the development of novel liver MR imaging as well as novel coronary CT imaging.

He co-leads cardiac MR phenotyping for the UK Biobank imaging study, as well as the large international Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Registry.

He is a fellow of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences. He has been Lead, first of the Cardiovascular and now of the Imaging, Theme for the Oxford NIHR Biomedical Research Centre.

He is also a founder of two University spinout companies, Perspectum (2012) and Caristo Diagnostics (2018).

Special interests

• Cardiac imaging
• Cardiac MRI
• Cardiac CT
• Multi-organ MRI
• Population imaging
• Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Contact details

Simon Muncey: 01865 223365
Email: simon.muncey@ouh.nhs.uk

Dr Jim Newton qualified from the University of Leicester in 1998 then after a period of research undertook postgraduate training in Oxford.

He was appointed as a consultant cardiologist with a specialist interest in echocardiography and valvular heart disease in 2011.

Dr Jim Newton has been involved in the assessment of patients before, during and after TAVI procedures from the first case performed in Oxford in 2008, with expertise in all aspects of procedural imaging.

Current interests are in the development of intracardiac echocardiography for structural interventions and assessment of patients for novel transcatheter valve therapies.

Special interests

• Echocardiography
• Interventional imaging

Research interests

• Valvular heart disease
• Endocarditis

Contact details

Janet Kinsey: 01865 228934
Email: janet.kinsey@ouh.nhs.uk

Dr Elizabeth Orchard is a Consultant Cardiologist at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. She has subspecialty interests in adult congenital heart disease, paediatric and adolescent cardiology, obstetric cardiology and pulmonary hypertension.

She is the clinical lead for the ACHD Service and is the network lead for the Oxford Southampton paediatric cardiac network. She undertakes peripheral clinics monthly in Reading, Northampton and Jersey. Her research interests are mainly in mobile health technologies to improve patient care.

She is a member of the British Congenital Cardiac Association and UK Maternal Cardiology Society.

Special interests

• Congenital heart disease
• Paediatric cardiology
• Obstetric cardiology and pulmonary hypertension
• Pulmonary hypertension

Contact details

Vanessa Clarke: 01865 223084
Email: vanessa.clarke@ouh.nhs.uk

Private

Email: vanessa.clarke1@nhs.net

Dr Julian Ormerod is a Consultant Cardiologist and is Clinical Lead for Inherited Cardiac Conditions (ICC). He also has subspecialty interests in implantable cardiac devices and cardiac MRI.

He is a lecturer at Jesus College and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer in the University of Oxford. He is a Fellow of the European Heart Rhythm Association.

Dr Ormerod trained in medicine at Cambridge and Oxford Universities and was awarded a PhD in Cardiovascular Medicine by the University of Birmingham in 2011. His research concerned the actions of nitrite in health and disease, including heart failure and ischaemia-reperfusion injury.

He completed clinical cardiology training in Oxford in 2017. He has a keen interest in teaching and training, and in introducing new device techniques and technology such as venoplasty, conduction system pacing and extravascular ICDs.

Special interests

• ICC
• Implantable Cardiac Devices
• CMR

Research interests

Diagnosis, phenotyping and management of inherited heart diseases, including deep phenotyping of cardiomyopathies and novel channelopathies such as Calcium-Release Deficiency Syndrome (CRDS).

Contact details

Julie Johnson: 01865 228956
Email: julie.johnson4@ouh.nhs.uk

Private

Tel: 01865 415374
Email: pa@oxfordheartspecialist.com

Julian Ormerod, Consultant Cardiologist

Michala Pedersen is a Consultant Cardiologist and Electrophysiologist at Oxford and at Northampton General Hospital, dividing her time equally between the two trusts.

She qualified from the University of Oxford in 2001 and after junior years in Oxford she trained in cardiology and electrophysiology in London, predominantly at the Royal Brompton Hospital.

She spent a year specialising further in ablation during a fellowship with Prof Haïssaguerre’s electrophysiology group in Bordeaux, France.

She has written many papers and book chapters and holds a DPhil from the University of Oxford.

She is Lecturer in Clinical Medicine at one of the Oxford colleges, Christ Church.

Special interests

• Any arrhythmia
• Catheter ablation of arrhythmia
• Pacing including defibrillators and leadless devices

Contact details

Holli Richards: 01865 223172
Email: holli.richards@ouh.nhs.uk

Alex Pitcher is a consultant cardiologist at Oxford University Hospitals and Clinical Lead for Integrated Community Cardiology.

His general cardiology practice encompasses all routine aspects of inpatient and outpatient cardiology, and his specialist practice focuses on disorders of blood vessels, in particular Marfan syndrome, Loeys-Dietz syndrome and pulmonary vascular disease, including pulmonary embolism and pulmonary hypertension.

His research interests are mainly in large scale data applications to rare diseases, particularly Marfan syndrome. He is involved in undergraduate and postgraduate education and training, and is a Fellow of New College, Oxford.

Special interests

• General cardiology
• Aortic disease
• Marfan syndrome
• Pulmonary hypertension
• Loeys-Dietz syndrome

Contact details

General Cardiology

Phoebe Flattley: 01865 220326
Emal: phoebe.flattley@ouh.nhs.uk

Pulmonary Hypertension Service

Lorraine Soanes: 01865 220050
Email: lorraine.soanes@ouh.nhs.uk

Integrated Community Cardiology

Louise Lamble: 01865 226855
Email: louise.lamble@ouh.nhs.uk

Private

Lisa Jones: 01865 238789
Email: lisa.jones@ouh.nhs.uk

He also leads the Blood Pressure Lowering Treatment Trialists' Collaboration (BPLTTC), which is an international collaboration of all the major trials of blood pressure lowering drugs.

He is the Director of the Martin School programme on Informal Cities and a Co-Investigator of the PEAK-Urban programme

Special interests

• Heart failure
• Hypertension
• Preventive cardiology

Contact details

Naseem Akhtar: naseem.akhtar@wrh.ox.ac.uk

Private

Kazem Rahimi - Nuffield Department of Women's and Reproductive Health

Kim Rajappan is a Consultant Cardiologist and Electrophysiologist at the John Radcliffe Hospital.

He is involved in the investigation and treatment of patients with all forms of arrhythmia problems including ablation and device therapy.

His research and clinical interests are focussed on catheter ablation of complex cardiac arrhythmias including atrial fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia.

He is an active member of the British Heart Rhythm Society, an Executive Committee member of the Arrhythmia Alliance, and Program Director for Heart Rhythm Congress, the largest national arrhythmia meeting in the UK.

He has published over 90 peer reviewed papers, lectures nationally and internationally, and is one of the editors of the Oxford Handbook of Cardiac Electrophysiology and Catheter Ablation.

He travels internationally to help teach Electrophysiologists in other countries new techniques in ablation, particularly advanced cardiac mapping of arrhythmias, and implantation of ICD/CRT devices.

Special interests

• Cardiology
• Arrhythmias
• Ablation
• Pacemakers
• Implantable cardioverter defibrillators
• Cardiac resynchronisation therapy

Research interests

Cardiac arrhythmia management including atrial fibrillation ablation

Contact details

Holli Richards: 01865 223172
Email: holli.richards@ouh.nhs.uk

Private

Email: manor.cardiac@nuffieldheath.com
www.kimrajappan.co.uk

Prof Oliver Rider is a clinical academic cardiologist running a dedicated research group that uses state-of-the-art cardiac magnetic resonance imaging to investigate heart disease. He is also a consultant cardiologist with acute, outpatient and inpatient responsibilities within Oxford University Hospitals, specialising in general cardiology and cardiac imaging.

After studying medicine at Pembroke College Oxford he completed the Royal College Examinations and specialised in Cardiology. He completed a PhD in Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Oxford, using advanced cardiac magnetic resonance imaging.

He took up the role of Clinical Lecturer in Cardiovascular Medicine in Oxford in 2010 and in 2015 was appointed as an Honorary Consultant Cardiologist, specialising in cardiac imaging, and Deputy Clinical Director of the University of Oxford Centre for Clinical Magnetic Resonance Research.

Special interests

• Heart failure
• Cardiac metabolism
• Obesity
• Diabetes
• Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging
  

Contact details

Marta Tustian, Horton General Hospital: 01295 224181
Email: marta.tustian@ouh.nhs.uk

Dr Sabharwal qualified in Oxford and trained in Cardiology in London and Oxford.

He was appointed consultant cardiologist in Oxford and Banbury, specialising in cardiac imaging (nuclear, CT and echocardiography) in 2009.

He is the author of various peer reviewed papers in nuclear cardiology and echocardiography, as well as Oxford Specialist Handbooks in nuclear cardiology and valvular heart disease.

Special interests

• General cardiology
• Cardiac imaging

Research interests

• Angina
• Valve disease
• Heart failure
• Amyloidosis
• Cardio-oncology

Contact details

NHS - John Radcliffe Hospital

Sue Foster: 01865 220269
Email: sue.foster@ouh.nhs.uk

NHS - Horton General Hospital

Vicky Bullen / Marta Tustian: 01295 224181
Email: vicky.bullen@ouh.nhs.uk / marta.tustian@ouh.nhs.uk

Private

Email: dr.nsabharwalpa@gmail.com

Dr Mayooran Shanmuganathan (Dr Shan) is a Consultant Cardiologist based at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford and Harefield Hospital in London. He sees patients with all types of cardiac symptoms. He has a specialist interest in all forms of treatments for heart failure and cardiac MRI.

He graduated from Imperial College London in 2008 and undertook his postgraduate clinical training in major teaching hospitals in London. He became a member of the Royal College of Physicians in 2011.

He underwent sub-specialist training in advanced heart failure including heart transplantation and mechanical circulatory service (including ventricular assist devices) in Harefield Hospital and in cardiac MRI in Oxford.

After being appointed as consultant, he led the provision of heart failure service in Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust between 2022 and 2024.

He has also undergone research training at Imperial College London, Harvard Medical School and University of Oxford, where he was awarded Graduate Scholarship to undertake DPhil (Phd) in the application of cardiac MRI in acute myocardial injury.

He has published widely. He continues to perform clinical research and serves as principal investigator in several clinical trials in heart failure.

Special interests

• Heart failure, advanced heart failure, heart transplantation and mechanical circulatory support
  
• Cardiac MRI
  
• Pulmonary hypertension

Research interests

• Cardiac MRI
  
• Heart failure
  
• Acute myocardial injury
  
• Coronary physiology and microvascular dysfunction

Contact details

Tel: 01295 229215
Email: catherine.heath@ouh.nhs.uk

Private

Tel: 07482 449214
Email: consultant@heart-doctor.co.uk

Private website

Dr Mayooran Shanmuganathan, Consultant Cardiologist - heart-doctor.co.uk

Dr Spartera works as a Consultant Cardiologist at the Great Western Hospital and Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

He obtained his PhD at the University of Oxford funded by NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre. He is an international expert in multi-modality cardiovascular imaging and diagnosis of complex cardiac conditions including sources of ischaemic stroke, obesity-related conditions, medical/causal management of atrial fibrillation, valvular heart disease and heart failure.

Special interests

• Blood clots, cardioembolic stroke, TIA, or systemic embolism (Dr Spartera works out the causes behind symptoms and arranges specific medications or interventions including PFO closure etc.)
• Leaky and/or narrow heart valve (Dr Spartera assesses whether the valve needs a procedure/surgery or whether it needs specific medications)
• Obesity-related cardiovascular health (Dr Spartera assesses the damages of obesity on the heart and makes plan to curb them as well as for prevention)
• Palpitations and atrial fibrillation (Dr Spartera works out the causes behind palpitations and arranges medications or interventions to tackle to root cause of the problem)
• Any general cardiology queries (Dr Spartera looks after patients in acute cardiac unit, general cardiology ward, and outpatient clinics on a weekly basis)

Consultations

NHS / private patients, in English or Italian in an enthusiastic, empathetic and compassionate fashion.

Research and innovation

Leading a research programme to assess abnormalities of the cardiac flow towards discovering new mechanisms of cardioembolism and heart failure.

LOSE-AF trial (NCT03713775): a Randomized Controlled Trial to investigate whether in older overweight/obese patients with Atrial Fibrillation (AF) weight loss can improve AF outcomes.

Marco Spartera - Radcliffe Department of Medicine

Contact details

Tina Radway (Secretary)
Email: tina.radway@nhs.net

Dr Wijesurendra is a Consultant Cardiologist and Electrophysiologist. He has particular expertise in managing heart arrhythmias - electrical disorders of the heart rhythm.

He works jointly at the John Radcliffe Hospital and at the University of Oxford, and also sees and treats private patients at the Manor Hospital and the John Radcliffe Hospital.

Dr Wijesurendra completed medical training at Cambridge University with several scholarships and distinctions. He moved to Oxford for postgraduate training, and undertook a DPhil (PhD) at the University of Oxford in 2018. For aspects of this work, he received several major national and international awards, including the Young Investigator Award in Clinical Science of the European Society of Cardiology and the Melvin Judkins Young Investigator Award of the American Heart Association.

He has published numerous high impact papers, contributed to several textbooks, and lectures nationally and internationally. He is now a Senior Clinical Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, where his research combines large-scale trials in cardiovascular disease with more mechanistic clinical studies. His research interests include atrial fibrillation and streamlined clinical trials.

Dr Wijesurendra is a Stipendiary Lecturer in Clinical Medicine at St John’s College, University of Oxford, and undertakes regular undergraduate and postgraduate teaching.

Special interests

Cardiac rhythm management:

• patients with palpitation or blackout
• sudden cardiac death
• atrial fibrillation and atrial flutter
• SVT
• ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation.

Procedures include:

• catheter ablation
• pacemaker or biventricular pacemaker (cardiac resynchronisation therapy) implantation
• implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) implantation (transvenous and subcutaneous)
• lead extraction.

Research interests:

• atrial fibrillation
• streamlined clinical trials.

Contact details

Kayleigh Morris: 01865 220256
Email: kayleigh.morris@ouh.nhs.uk

Private

Kayley Gaul: 01865 307488
Email: kayley.gaul@nuffieldhealth.com

Dr Rohan Wijesurendra - Nuffield Health