Best Cardiologists in Harrow, UK

Dr Pavlidis is a Consultant Cardiologist at Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation

Trust. He is an Interventional Cardiologist who specialises in the investigation and treatment of coronary artery disease. He undertook training in interventional cardiology at St Thomas' and the London Chest Hospitals.

Dr Pavlidis has a particular interest in complex coronary interventions and percutaneous treatment of coronary chronic total occlusions. He also consults on a wide range of other conditions including palpitations, valvular heart disease, hypertension, dyslipidaemias and heart failure.

He is actively involved in clinical research with a specific interest in the areas of preventive and interventional cardiology. He completed his PhD thesis on primary dyslipidaemias and he has authored a number of peer-reviewed publications and book chapters.

Complex coronary intervention

Percutaneous treatment of chronic total occlusions

Complex coronary intervention

Percutaneous treatment of chronic total occlusion

Intracoronary imaging (intravascular ultrasound, OCT)

Functional assessment of coronary artery disease (pressure wire studies)

Dr. Rizvi is a Senior Physician in who has held a Consultant post in a Watford District General Hospital since 1st of May 2001 in the Department of Medicine.

His duties include supervision of one Specialist Registrar, one GP trainee, one Core Medical Trainee and one Foundation Trainee Year 1 and teaching students from University College London and University of Grenada. 

He conducts three ward rounds per week on acutely ill medical patients with a wide variety of acute medical illnesses as well as elderly inpatients. He is on call for un-selected medical patients of all ages as per general medical rota. 

He does one outpatient clinics per week for complex medical problems and one outpatient clinic per week for patients with Parkinson’s disease.  

In addition to the above he has a special interest in looking after 22 rehabilitation patients at Langley House Rehabilitation Unit where he does two ward rounds per week for patients undergoing rehabilitation through multidisciplinary team following a stroke, surgery or needing medical rehabilitation. 

He is involved in audit meetings and the clinical governance programme in his department.  

He is the lead for teaching programme for his department and conducts teaching meetings on every Monday between 1-2 pm in the Postgraduate Centre. He the MRCP examiner for the Royal College of Physicians London for the PACES examination for the MRCP. 

He provides outpatient consultation as well as inpatient admission for patients of all ages with a wide variety of medical problems. 

Dr. Rizvi has is also heavily involved in research, publications and teaching:

• He is the lead for Parkinson's Disease Research Projects at West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust.

• He was the Royal College of Physicians tutor from 2002 till 2008.

• He has been a MRCP Examiner for the Royal College of Physicians since 2008.

• He is the lead physician for Elderly Care Teaching and Training Programme since 2001 and he personally conducts these well received tutorials for all the junior doctors and registrars in elderly care department.

• He teaches junior doctors for the MRCP examination. As a previous college tutor, he has a special interest to maintain the teaching and training of the junior doctors.
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• He is an Honorary Lecturer for undergraduate medical students at University College London (UCL) and Greneda from 2005 till now.

Public Health Awareness; He has given many lectures to the general public in the local community on topics such as health awareness, blood pressure, cholesterol, heart disease and Parkinson's disease between 2001 and now and his talks have been featured in the local newspaper, and he has received commendation from the President of the local Parkinson's Disease Society and Local Temples.

He is married with three daughters. He love spending time with his family and enjoy reading and photography when he gets time

Diseases, Medical Tests and Treatments

• ECG (Electrocardiogram)
• ECG Monitor (24 Hours)
• 24 Hour Blood Pressure Monitor
• Dysautonomia
• High Blood Pressure
• Hypertension (High Blood Pressure)
• Low Blood Pressure
• Variable Blood Pressure
• Cardiology
• Acute Coronary Syndrome
• Angina
• Arrhythmia (Irregular Heartbeat)
• Atherosclerosis
• Bradycardia
• Congestive Heart Failure
• Dizziness
• Heart Failure
• Heart Murmurs
• Heart Muscle Disease
• High Blood Pressure
• Loss Of Consciousness (Syncope)
• Low Blood Pressure
• Palpitations
• Tachycardia
• Valvular Heart Disease
• Geriatric Medicine
• Alzheimers Disease
• Dementia
• Parkinson’s Disease
• Vascular Dementia
• Respiratory Medicine
• Asthma
• Breathlessness
• Bronchitis
• Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
• Emphysema
• Lung Infection Or Chest Infection
• Pleural Effusion
• Pulmonary Fibrosis
• Troublesome Cough

Dr Paresh Mehta is a senior Consultant Cardiologist at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust and is Director of London and Windsor Cardiac Clinics.

Dr Mehta was born and schooled in London, UK. He qualified from Manchester Medical School (UK) in 1999 and returned to London for post-graduate medical training. He achieved Membership of the Royal College of Physicians (MRCP) in 2002. He subsequently spent 3 years in clinical research at Imperial College London and the Royal Brompton Hospital. He successfully achieved a postgraduate medical doctorate (MD), awarded by University of London in 2009, for research conducted in the field of heart failure. He returned to clinical training and completed specialist cardiology rotations at Harefield, Royal Brompton and St Thomas' Hospitals in 2011 before appointment as Consultant Cardiologist. He was proud to be elected Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP) in 2015.

Dr Mehta's NHS and private clinical practice covers all aspects of general cardiology including, angina, arrhythmia, hypertension, hyperlipidaemia, syncope and structural heart disease. He has a specialist interest in heart failure, cardiomyopathy and cardiac rhythm management devices. He performs cardiac procedures including implanting conventional and biventricular pacemakers, defibrillators and cardiac loop recorders.

Dr Mehta has several peer-reviewed publications with ongoing research interests in the field of heart failure, arrhythmia and cardiac rhythm management device therapy. He is actively involved and enjoys educating medical students, junior hospital doctors, general practitioners and provides clinical supervision to trainee doctors.

Dr Mehta and his experienced team at London and Windsor Cardiology clinics endeavour to provide a comprehensive private cardiology service for their patients and families. They provide a full range of state-of-the-art diagnostics, in several locations across London and Windsor, serving Buckinghamshire and Berkshire, with a dedication to provide detailed individualised treatment plans tailored to our patients.

Single and dual lead Pacemaker insertion

Implantable defibrillator insertion

Biventricular pacemaker and defibrillator insertion

Cardiac loop recorder insertion

Dr Georgios Karagiannis is a Consultant specialising in the field of Cardiology. He is currently working at Harefield Hospital within the heart transplant department, where he treats private and NHS patients. He is also working at Hillingdon Hospital within the cardiology department.

He qualified in Medicine at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece. He then completed his specialist training in Greece and was awarded ‘excellent’ marks on completion. In 2009, he successfully completed his PhD in Cardiology, for which he also received an ‘excellent’ mark. Since 2013, he has worked as a senior clinical fellow in advanced heart failure at Harefield Hospital. Furthermore for his academic and clinical work, Dr Karagiannis been awarded fellowship of the European Society of Cardiology and fellowship of the European Heart Failure Association.

• Cardiac Rehabilitation
• ECG monitor (24 hours)
• Transoesophageal Echocardiography
• Echocardiogram
• Coronary angiography
• Pacemaker Implantation

• Heart failure
• Preventive cardiology
• Echocardiography
• Acute cardiac care
• Coronary Artery Disease
• Heart Attack
• High Blood Pressure
• Chest Pain
• Pulmonary Hypertension

Professor Roxy Senior is a Consultant Cardiologist at Royal Brompton and Harefield hospitals, where he treats both NHS and private patients.

He received his master’s degree in medicine and cardiology from the University of Calcutta, India. In 1989, he joined Northwick Park Hospital, Middlesex, as a research fellow, then was appointed as a consultant cardiologist in 1995, and became director of cardiac research in 2003.

He was appointed as a consultant cardiologist and Director of Echocardiography at Royal Brompton Hospital in September 2010.

In addition, he is professor of clinical cardiology at the National Heart and Lung Institute (NHLI), Imperial College London.

Diseases, Medical Tests and Treatments

• Myocardial contrast echocardiography
• Stress echo
• 3D/speckle tracking
• Heart failure
• Coronary artery disease
• Acute coronary syndrome

Dr Wajid Hussain is a consultant cardiologist at Royal Brompton and Harefield hospitals.

He graduated from the University of Birmingham with honours in both physiology and medicine. He trained in general cardiology in London before undertaking research in basic science projects relating to heart rhythm disorders at Imperial College London and Columbia University, New York. This work led to him being awarded a Young Investigator Prize at the European Society of Cardiology.

He was appointed as consultant cardiac electrophysiologist at Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals to facilitate the expansion of ablation services, particularly in treating atrial fibrillation.

He is interested in the application of digital tools to transform healthcare delivery. He is the Clinical Director for Digital Health at the Royal College of Physicians (London) and the Chief Clinical Information Officer for his trust.

• The management of arrhythmias ranging from simple palpitations to complex arrhythmias
• Atrial fibrillation and the role of ablation in managing this condition
• Ventricular tachycardia
• Supraventricular tachycardia (SVT)
• Wolff-Parkinson-White (WPW) syndrome
• Single and dual chamber pacemaker insertion
• Transthoracic and transoesophageal echocardiography

Dr Joban Sehmi is a leading consultant cardiologist in London and Watford who sub-specialises in advanced cardiac imaging, including echocardiography, CT coronary angiography and cardiac MRI. His areas of expertise include heart failure, arrhythmia and valvular heart disease. 

Dr Sehmi trained in medicine at Guy’s and St Thomas’ medical school and qualified in 2003 with numerous academic awards. He acquired a place on the Northwest London cardiology training scheme and completed prestigious sub-specialist fellowships in advanced cardiac imaging at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and the Royal Brompton Hospital. 

Dr Sehmi carried out a PhD at Imperial College, which was awarded in 2013. For his PhD he investigated genetic and environmental factors that determine the increased risk of type-2 diabetes amongst South Asians in comparison to Europeans. Dr Sehmi has presented his work at several national and international meetings. His work has been published in multiple high ranking scientific journals. 

Dr Piyush Jain is a consultant cardiologist currently working at the private practices Spire Bushey and Harpenden Hospital, HCA Wellington and Elstree Waterfront centre as well as OSD Healthcare. His NHS base is West Hertfordshire Hospitals. He has been a consultant cardiologist at West Hertfordshire NHS Trust since 2017 and is currently the departmental lead for echocardiography as well as the lead for clinical governance.

Dr Jain attained his first medical qualification in 2000. He completed his medical training in North London, at hospitals including Royal Brompton and Harefield Trusts as well the Barnet and Chase Farm hospitals, obtaining MRCP in 2010. He further trained at District General Hospitals and Essex cardiothoracic centre where he trained advanced cardiac imaging (Cardiac CT, Echocardiography). He now trains registars in these specialist techniques and teaches on advanced CT courses.

In 2015 he completed an MD (Research) at Imperial College London. His work was supported by the prestigious Dorothy Hodgkin Post Graduate award. He has presented his research at local and international conferences as well as published in high impact peer reviewed journals.

Dr Jain has many professional memberships including Royal College of Physicians, British Cardiovascular Society, European Society of Cardiology, British Society of Echocardiography, European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging, Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography and British Heart Valve Society.

While he see patients with all aspects of cardiac pathology, he has a special interest in advanced imaging (Echo, stress echo, Transoesophageal echo and cardiac CT).

He enjoys interaction with patients and spend as much time with them as needed to get to a clear diagnosis and clarification of all the findings and diagnosis to the patient. He ensures that they understand their disease, prognosis and future plans as well as rational for ongoing treatment. This allows for individualized medicine as far as possible, as well as shared decision making.

• Cardiac Rehabilitation
• ECG monitor (24 hours)
• Stress echocardiography

• Hypertension
• Congestive heart failure
• Breathlessness
• Chest pain
• Valvular Heart Disease
• Heart murmurs
• Palpitations

Dr Amanda Varnava graduated from Oxford University and then Barts Hospital in 1990. She specialised in cardiology training at the top cardiology centres including Royal Brompton Hospital, St George’s Hospital, and Barts and the London Chest Hospital. Dr Varnava also sees patients privately at a number of locations.

She has completed a research degree in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and genetics and has since gone on to develop a specialist expertise in inherited cardiac conditions and sudden death syndromes - she established the Inherited Cardiac Conditions service at Imperial College.

She also runs the pregnancy and heart disease service for West Hertfordshire, seeing pregnant women with known or suspected heart disease. Dr Varnava offers specialist services for patients with heart failure, pregnancy and heart disease, and inherited heart problems. She also specialises in evaluating sports people/athletes and performs pre-participation screening for the FA and many premiership Football clubs . She is on the expert advisory panel for the FA and the Cardiomyopathy Association and undertakes an active research programme in the sudden death syndromes.

• ECG (electrocardiogram)
• Echocardiogram (cardiac ultrasound)
• 24 hour Holter (ECG monitor)
• 24 hour blood pressure monitor
• Exercise stress test (ECG)
• Exercise or stress echocardiogram
• CT Coronary angiogram
• Invasive coronary angiogram

• Heart failure
• Pregnancy and heart disease
• Inherited heart problems
• Evaluating sports people
• Pre-participation screening for sports events
• Hypertension
• Coronary artery disease
• Cardiomyopathies
• Channelopathies (long QT and Brugada syndrome)
• Athlete’s heart
• Heart failure
• Atrial fibrillation
• Ventricular ectopics
• Research interests
• Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
• Brugada syndrome
• Ventricular ectopics
• Sports cardiology

Dr Deven Patel is a Consultant Cardiologist, appointed as an NHS consultant in 1999 to Barnet, Chase Farm and The Royal Free hospitals and has been the Head of Cardiology at Barnet and Chase Farm since 2007. He also sees patients privately at a number of locations. Dr Patel has trained in all aspects of cardiology but has specialised in the last 14 years in coronary angiography, intervention and stenting, with an interest in complex coronary intervention using Rotablation and intravascular ultrasound. 

Dr Patel trained in medicine at Middlesex Hospital, London, undertaking cardiology training at The Royal Free, Hillingdon, Royal Brompton, and Harefield Hospitals. He has also undertaken considerable research in the diagnosis and risk stratification of coronary artery disease and acute coronary syndromes, including acute myocardial infarction, while also developing an expertise in undertaking coronary angiography and stenting via the arm using the radial artery. 

• Coronary Stenting and Intervention

• Coronary Heart Disease
• Coronary Stenting and Intervention
• Acute Coronary Syndrome
• Heart failure
• Chest pain
• Breathlessness
• Heart murmur
• Valvular heart disease
• Hypertension
• Palpitation
• Atrial fibrillation
• Arrhythmia
• Faints
• Blackouts
• Pacing