Cardiology
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Clinical Academic Group
Since its first inception in 1954, the St George’s Hospital Cardiology department has been at the forefront of providing pioneering specialist cardiology care to our patients
The Cardiology Clinical Academic Group at St George’s Hospital offers all aspects of treatments for heart conditions across South West London and Surrey. The Cardiology Clinical Academic Group at St George’s execute a shared strategic vision between St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and St George’s, University of London. This allows patients to receive high quality specialist multidisciplinary care based on the tripartite mission of:
- Achieving high standards of clinical care
- Leading clinical and laboratory research
- Educating doctors and other health professionals
We run a specialised service for treatment of the full spectrum of cardiovascular diseases including coronary artery disease, valvular heart disease, heart rhythm disorders, heart failure, sports cardiology and inherited cardiac diseases including diseases of the thoracic aorta.
Specialist Cardiology clinics are also run at Queen Mary’s Hospital and Nelson Hospital, where a comprehensive consultant led rapid access outpatient service for the diagnosis and effective treatment of all cardiac conditions is offered.
Services
- Weekly specialist electrophysiology clinics
- One-stop heart failure clinics
- Daily one-stop-shop rapid access chest pain clinics
- Weekly Valve echocardiography clinics
- Weekly specialist Nurse led Arrhythmia clinics
- Weekly Nurse led cardioversion service
- Weekly structural intervention/ transcatheter aortic valve clinics
- Weekly Inherited cardiac disease and sports cardiology clinics
- Weekly Aortopathy clinics
- Joint Cardiology Sarcoidosis clinic
- Joint Cardiology Thalassemia clinics
- Joint Cardiology Renal clinics
- Weekly Cardiac Resynchronisation clinics
- Direct rapid access to high quality echocardiography
- Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- Direct access ambulatory BP monitoring
- Direct access to electrocardiography
- Direct access ambulatory ECG monitoring
- Direct access cardiomemo ECG monitoring
- Cardiac rehabilitation services
Consultant Staff of the Cardiology Clinical Academic Group
- Professor Stephen Brecker – Chief of Cardiology
- Professor Sanjay Sharma – Head of Research
- Dr Raj Sharma – Head of Clinical Service
- Dr Manv Sohal – Head of Audit & Governance
- Dr Robin Ray – Head of Education
- Prof Dr Giuseppe M.C. Rosano – Consultant Cardiologist and Professor of Cardiology
Electrophysiology Group
Prof Elijah Behr – Arrhythmias, Electrophysiology and Inherited Cardiac Conditions Professor
- Professor John Camm – Arrhythmias and Electrophysiology
- Dr Mark Gallagher – Arrhythmias and Electrophysiology
- Dr Magdi Saba – Arrhythmias and Electrophysiology
- Dr Manav Sohal – Arrhythmias and Electrophysiology
- Dr Anthony Li – Arrhythmias and Electrophysiology
Intervention and Coronary Artery Disease Group
- Professor Stephen Brecker – Structural Intervention
- Dr Pitt Lim – Interventional Cardiology
- Dr Sam Firoozi – Interventional Cardiology
- Dr James Spratt – Interventional Cardiology
- Prof Juan-Carlos Kaski – Microvascular angina and coronary artery disease
Heart Failure & Imaging Group
- Dr Lisa Anderson – Heart Failure and Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- Dr Nick Bunce – Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Echocardiography
- Dr Robin Ray – Heart Failure and Cardiac Imaging
- Dr Raj Sharma – Echocardiography
- Dr Nesan Shanmugam – Heart Failure and Cardiac Imaging
- Dr Anna Marciniak – Echocardiography and Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- Prof Dr Giuseppe M.C. Rosano – Consultant Cardiologist and Professor of Cardiology
Inherited Cardiac Conditions Group
- Professor Elijah Behr – Arrhythmias, Electrophysiology and Inherited Cardiac Conditions
- Prof Sanjay Sharma – Sports Cardiology and Inherited Cardiac Conditions
- Professor Mary Sheppard – Cardiac pathology
- Dr Maite Tome – Inherited Cardiac Conditions including aortopathy
- Dr Michael Papadakis – Sports Cardiology and Inherited Cardiac Conditions
In addition there are 12 cardiologists who currently use St George’s as their tertiary base but are primarily based at other hospitals in SW London and Surrey/Sussex:
- St Helier/Epsom -Dr Richard Bogle, Dr Abhay Bajpai, Dr Nikesh Malik
- Frimley Park – Dr Sudhir Rathore, Dr Matt Faircloth, Dr Mark Norman
- St Peter’s – Dr Riyaz Kaba
- Royal Surrey County – Dr TP Chua, Dr Zia Zuberi
- East Surrey – Dr Rashid Iqbal, Dr Maciej Marciniak
- Kingston – Dr Simon Pearse
Nurses
- Mark O’Donnell – Heart Failure Nurse Specialist
- Matthew Sunter – Heart Failure Nurse Specialist
- Catriona Schwendtner – Heart Failure Nurse Specialist
- Holly Blair – Cardiac Nurse Practitioner
- Nadia Dallsingh – Cardiac Nurse Practitioner
- Lyniel Medrano-Bautista – Cardiac Nurse Practitioner
- Liz Mead – Cardiac Nurse Practitioner
- Kay Townsend – Cardiac Nurse Specialist
- Penelope Jane Mullord – Cardiology Nurse Practitioner
- Niamh McEnroe – Cardiology Nurse Practitioner
- Michael Sampson – Cardiology Nurse Practitioner
- Siobhian Armstrong – Heart Failure Clinical Nurse Specialist
- Breege Skeffington – Ward Manager of the Coronary Care Unit
Cardiac Physiologists/Scientists
- Alex Grimster – Principal Cardiac Physiologist (Heart Rhythm & Intervention)
- Eliane Cunliffe – Principal Cardiac Physiologist (Echo & Community)
Contact details
St George’s Contacts for Clinicians
If you have a query for a consultant, please use the clinician list on this page to find their contact information. GPs may also use the Advice and Guidance Service on eRS.
If your request is very urgent, please contact the on call cardiology registrar directly via the St Georges switchboard. Please bear in mind that the on call registrar covers all cardiology emergencies in the hospital and sometimes may not be able to respond immediately.
St George’s Cardiology Department Contacts
Cardiology Outpatients: 020 8725 1852
Cardiac Investigations (Echo): 020 8725 1184
Cardiac Investigations (ECG): 020 8725 1385 / 1184
Cardiac Admissions: 020 8725 4406
Cardiac – General
Daycase admissions: 020 8725 4406
Inpatient admissions: 020 8725 4798
Cardiac Surgery: 020 8725 4959
Bed Manager bleep: 020 8725 1255 (bleep 6412)
Cardiac Nurse Practitioners: 020 68672 1255 (bleep 7138)
Heart Failure Nurse Specialists: 020 87254404
Matron: 0208 725 3543 (bleep 6285)
Cardiothoracic Critical Care Unit: 020 8725 1504
Cardiothoracic Bed Managers: 020 8725 2998 or 4407
International referrals / Private patients only
Tel: +44 (0)20 8725 3579
Fax: +44 (0)20 8725 3612
Queen Mary’s Hospital
Tel: 020 8487 6482
Fax: 020 8487 6490
Telephone advice: 020 8487 6008
