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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

  • Dr Raj Sharma, Cardiology & Cardiac Surgery Clinical Director
    Dr Manav Sohal, Care Group Lead
    Professor Sanjay Sharma, Head of Research
    Dr Simon Wilson, Head of Audit and Governance
    Dr Sree Kondapally, Head of Education

Electrophysiology Group

Prof Elijah Behr – Arrhythmias, Electrophysiology and Inherited Cardiac Conditions Professor

  • Elijah Behr, Arrhythmias, Electrophysiology and Inherited Cardiac Conditions
  • Dr Magdi Saba, Arrhythmias and Electrophysiology
  • Prof Mark Gallagher, Arrhythmias and Electrophysiology
  • Dr Anthony Li, Arrhythmias and Electrophysiology
  • Dr Manav Sohal, Arrhythmias and Electrophysiology
  • Dr Mark Specterman, Arrhythmias and Electrophysiology

Intervention and Coronary Artery Disease Group

  • Dr Sam Firoozi, Interventional Cardiology
  • Dr Pitt Lim, Interventional Cardiology
  • Dr Sree Kondapally, Interventional Cardiology
  • Dr Simon Wilson, Interventional Cardiology
  • Prof Stephen Brecker, Structural Intervention
  • Prof James Spratt, Interventional Cardiology
  • Dr Maciej Marciniak, Interventional Cardiology
  • Dr Faisal Khan, Interventional Cardiology

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
  • Dr Fadi Jouhra, Complex Cardiac Devices and Heart Failure
  • Giuseppe M.C. Rosano, Consultant Cardiologist and Professor of Cardiology
  • Brendan Madden, Pulmonary Hypertension

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
  • Dr Gherado Finocchario, 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:

  • Dr Rupert Williams, Interventional Cardiology
  • Dr Richard Bogle, Interventional Cardiology
  • Dr Nikesh Malik, Interventional Cardiology
  • Dr Mark Norman, Arrhythmias and Electrophysiology
  • Dr Riyaz Kaba, Arrhythmias and Electrophysiology
  • Dr Zia Zuberi, Arrhythmias and Electrophysiology
  • Dr Abhay Bajpai, Arrhythmias and Electrophysiology
  • Dr Simon Pearse, Pacing

Nurses

Cardiac Physiologists/Scientists

  • Eliane Cunliffe – Principal Cardiac Physiologist (Echo & Communit
  • Mrs Michelle Navales, Lead Cardiac Physiologist
  • Mr Elliot Smith, Lead Physiologist for Trans-oesophageal Echocardiogram

Pharmacists

  • Nadar Baydoun, Lead Cardiology Pharmacist
  • Pedro Bandeira, Specialist Lipid Disorders Pharmacist
  • Laura Bijman, Specialist Heart Failure Pharmacist

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.

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 – General

Daycase admissions: 020 8725 4406

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

Nelson Hospital