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Consultant Cardiologist and Head of Clinical Services Cardiology Clinical Academic Group St Georges Hospital

Professor Sharma qualified in 1989 from Leeds University, and consequently received cardiology training at St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington and St George’s Hospital, London.

From 1996 to 2001 Professor Sharma was a consultant cardiologist and physician at University Hospital Lewisham. He then moved to the role of director of heart muscle diseases at King’s College Hospital from 2001-2007.

In 2007 he became a professor of inherited cardiac diseases in sports cardiology, before in 2010 becoming consultant cardiologist for Cardiac Risk in the Young, a charity that promotes awareness of SADs.

Since 2001 Professor Sharma has been the medical director of the Virgin London Marathon, the Silverstone half-marathon, the BUPA 10k run and the Adidas Women’s 5k run. He is also cardiologist for the Lawn Tennis Association, the British Rugby Union and the English Institute of Sport Congress.

Clinical interests

Professor Sharma specialises in inherited cardiac diseases, and has particular interests in cardiomyopathy, ethnic differences in cardiovascular disease, echocardiography and sudden arrhythmic death syndrome (SADS).

He also specialises in sports cardiology, in particular pre-participation screening in athletes and the condition known as athlete’s heart.

Qualifications

BSC (Hons) MD FRCP (UK) FESC

Memberships

Professor Sharma is the programme committee member for the European Society of Cardiology and EACPR, and has had 120 publications in various scientific journals.

  • Member: British Cardiac Society
  • Member: Royal Society of Medicine
  • Fellow: Royal College of Physicians
  • Fellow: European Society of Cardiology
  • Grants exceeding £100,000 since 2009
  • National Excellence Bronze Award (2010)
  • Young Investigator of the Year Awards from European Association for
  • Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation (EACPR) in 2009 and 2010

Professional profile

Dr Sharma graduated from Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital Medical School in 1993, and received his cardiology registrar training at the Wessex Cardiothoracic Centre between 1997 and 2005. He currently holds a BSc (Hons), MD and MBBS qualifications.

He became a research registrar in echocardiography at St George's Hospital and Medical School in 2001 for two years, before becoming a consultant cardiologist at Ealing Hospital in 2006.

Dr Sharma has been a consultant cardiologist and director of echocardiography at St George's Hospital since 2010, and in 2011 became an honorary lecturer at St George's, University of London.

  • Member, Royal College of Physicians
  • Member, British Medical Association
  • Member, British Cardiovascular Society
  • Member, European Society of Cardiology
  • Member, British Society of Echocardiography
  • Member, American Society of Echocardiography
  • Member, European Society of Echocardiography

Clinical Interests

Complex echocardiography imaging including stress, valvular and aortic diseases.

Cardiac complications of pregnancy and renal disease.

Publications

Marciniak, A., Sharma R. Diagnosis and Management of Marfan Syndrome. Springer. 2016. Book Chapter 7. The Role of Echocardiography in Marfan Syndrome: 57-73.

Melchiorre K, Sharma R, Baskaran T. Cardiovascular implications of pre – eclampsia: an overview. Circulation. 2014 Aug 19;130(8):703-14.

Sharma R, Pellerin D, Gaze DC, Gregson H, Streather CP, Collinson PO, Brecker SJD. Cardiac structural and functional abnormalities in end stage renal disease patients with elevated cardiac troponin T. Heart 2006;92(6):804-809.

Sharma R, Mann J, Drummond L, Livesey SA, Simpson IA. The evaluation of Real Time 3 - Dimensional transthoracic echocardiography for the pre-operative functional assessment of patients with mitral valve prolapse – a comparison with two dimensional transoesophageal echocardiography. J Am Soc Echocardiogr 2007;20(8):934-40.

O’Driscoll J, Marciniak A, Ray K, Saha A, Smith R, Sharma R. The safety and clinical usefulness of dobutamine stress echocardiography among octogenarians. Heart. 2014 Jul;100(13):1001-7.

Sharma R, O’Driscoll J, Bromley P, Sritharan M, Rosen S. Differing autonomic responses to dobutamine in the presence and absence of myocardial ischaemia. J Physiol. 2015 May 1;593(9):2171-84.

O’Driscoll J, Gravina A, Di Fino S, Thompson M, Karthigelasingham A, Sharma R. Transthoracic echocardiography provides important long-term prognostic information in patients undergoing endovascular abdominal aortic repair. Circulation Cardiovascular Imaging. 2016 Feb 9(2).

Melchiorre K, Sharma R, Khalil A, Baskaran T. Maternal cardiovascular function in normal pregnancy – evidence of maladaptation to chronic volume overload. Hypertension 2016 Apr;67(4):754-62.