Best Cardiologists in Manchester, UK

Dr Ayyaz Sultan is a Consultant Cardiologist with experience in treating all aspects of adult heart disease. He qualified in Medicine in 1999 from the University of Punjab before moving to the UK, where he completed specialist cardiology training and fellowship training.

He offers expert assessment, investigation and treatment for the full range of symptoms, including chest pain, palpitations, dizziness and fainting, breathlessness, heart murmurs and management of common cardiac conditions including angina, heart failure, heart attack, high cholesterol and hypertension.

His specialist interest is in the treatment of coronary artery disease through invasive coronary angiography, Cardiac CT (non-invasive) and percutaneous coronary intervention (angioplasty and stenting).

Dr. Abdullah Mohammed is a Consultant Cardiologist who completed his medical qualification at the University of Glasgow. During training, he undertook more focused subspecialty training in echocardiography and cardiac imaging. He completed the Mersey Deanery Training Programme in Cardiology and General Medicine.

Throughout his career, Dr. Mohammed has gained wide experience in medicine and cardiology whilst working at some of the UK's largest teaching hospitals and cardiology institutions in Glasgow, Staffordshire, Manchester, Liverpool, and Sheffield.

He has extensive experience with cardiac conditions such as angina, heart failure, valve heart disease, and atrial fibrillation. He is also experienced in cardiac risk assessment prior to non-cardiac surgery, and ‘Healthy Heart’ checks up for cardiovascular disease screening and primary prevention advice.

In addition to general cardiology, he is particularly proactive in invasive cardiology, alongside his special interest in advanced cardiac imaging techniques and their role in selecting the most appropriate and evidence-based medical or surgical treatment.

Dr. David Fox is a consultant cardiologist and electrophysiologist specialising in the management and treatment of Atrial Fibrillation and all heart rhythm disorders.

Each year he performs an high volume of catheter ablation procedures and he is one of the UK’s most active doctors in the field.

His results are audited annually and demonstrate high success rates with a low complication rates

He was the top medical student at the University of Dundee, having won numerous prizes. He was one of the only 4 students out of 140 that graduated with honours degree and the only student of his year to also have a first class honours degree of Medical Sciences in Pharmacology. He worked in some of the major hospitals around Manchester and trained in Cardiology at the North Western Deanery. During his fellowship at the University of Western Ontario, Canada, he became an expert in cardiac pacing and the latest ablation techniques especially for atrial fibrillation. He trained under the supervision of Professor George J Klein, a leading name in the field. Dr. Fox’s great interest in atrial fibrillation ablation is reflected onto his research work as he has published several very influential papers on the topic.

He was appointed Consultant Cardiologist at the University Hospital of South Manchester in 2008, where he is the lead clinician of the open access atrial fibrillation clinic and the rapid access palpitation clinic.

Dr Mohammed Amjed Khan (AKA Jed) is a Consultant Cardiologist who studied at University of Dundee and qualified in 1987.

Dr Amjed Khan has over 30 years of experience and has established an enviable reputation with both his colleagues and patients. He was awarded four Clinical Excellence Awards and has the honor and privileged of being a TEDx speaker. 

Dr Amjed Khan has been actively involved in improving patient care through research which has received about £2 million of funding from the NHS and British Heart Foundation (BHF). Research included improving heart transplant surgery, reducing the risk of heart disease and looking at ways to improve the treatment of heart attacks. He is currently planning an Artificial Intelligence cardiology project. 

Dr Amjed Khan's NHS practice includes The Royal Oldham Hospital, Rochdale Infirmary and Farefield Hospital where he deals with all cardiology emergencies, outpatient clinics, performing a wide range of heart test and working in the cardiac catheter laboratory. 

He treats patients with all types of heart problems including angina, heart attacks, blocked arteries, heart failure, Atrial fibrillation/flutter (AF), arrhythmias, high cholesterol and blood pressure. He performs cardiac catheterisation and implants permanent pacemakers and internal loop recorders.

Dr Amjed Khan was the founder of Heart Specialist Clinic Ltd and sees private patients at Highfield Hospital (Rochdale) and performs coronary angiograms, pacemakers and internal loop recorders at the Alexandra Hospital  (Cheadle). He see a wide range of patients including patients from overseas. Clients have included high ranking government officials, professional sports people including Premiership Footballers and Olympians, business people, professionals and people from all walks of life.

Dr Amjed Khan has three clinics at Highfield Hospital including a test clinic and will see urgent referrals at short notice. He sees patients with a wide range of heart problems including those reporting shortness of breath, chest pain, palpitations, irregular heart beats, dizzyness and black outs. He also see's patient with strong family history of heart disease or patients just concerned about their heart well being. Dr Amjed Khan also see's patients who need specialist assessment such as HGV and taxis drivers for DVLA tests or pilots.

Heart tests done include ECG (electrical heart tracing) echocardiography (ultrasound scan of the heart), heart monitors (checking for irregular heart beats), 24 hour blood pressure (checking for low or high blood pressure) exercise treadmill test (checking for angina), stress echo / CMR / nuclear scans (looking for angina), angiogram (looking for angina) and Internal Loop Recorder (checking for irregular heart beats). 

Dr Amjed Khan has access to the full range of treatments required to help treat his patients.

Appointments with Dr Amjed Khan can be made via the BMI The Highfield Hospital, Manchester Road, Rochdale: Tel:
01706 655121. Please ask for Dr Amjed Khan to make sure you see the right specialist.  His PA, Harris Kelly is based at Highfield Hospital and may be contacted on 01706766634 or harris.kelly2@bmihealthcare.co.uk .

Dr Scot Garg trained at the University of Manchester, graduating in 1999. He then undertook his specialist training in cardiology and coronary angioplasty (PCI) in  Yorkshire.

Following his specialist training, Dr Garg worked at the Thoraxcentre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, researching new coronary stents and the risk stratification of patients treated by PCI. He received his PhD researching the latter from the Erasmus University in 2011 with a cum laude judicium. He has over 100 publications in peer-reviewed journals and has presented at meetings nationally and internationally.  He is currently a peer reviewer for several cardiology journals and is on the international editorial board for one journal. He continues to research in Cardiology and teaches other clinicians.

In 2010, Dr Garg he became the Interventional Fellow at the Royal Stoke University Hospital and in the following year began work as a Consultant Interventional Cardiologist at the East Lancashire NHS Trust. Through this, he has intensive experience in PCI. Essentially all of his diagnostic and interventional cases are performed trans-radially. Dr Garg performs hundreds of angiogram and angioplasty procedures each year and treats over one thousand patients annually.

Dr Garg will see patients without a referral and by appointment outside his regular clinic times.

Dr Simon Horner is a Consultant Physician & Cardiologist. His vast experience of over 30 years in clinical medicine and cardiology covers a wide range of conditions, both cardiological and non-cardiological, having had more than 100,000 consultations with patients and so has extensive experience of clinical diagnosis and treatment.

Dr Horner won a scholarship to study medicine at The University of Cambridge (top 10%), where he graduated in 1983. He completed his medical training at several London teaching hospitals, namely University College Hospital, Kings College Hospital, St Mary’s Hospital, The London Hospital and Royal Free Hospital. Following this, he spent 3 years researching cardiac rhythm disturbances in the British Heart Foundation Cardiac Arrhythmia Research Group before becoming Senior Registrar in Cardiology, at Manchester Royal Infirmary.

Additionally, he also spent 18 months at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, which is rated as the top cardiology unit in the USA, where he performed coronary angioplasty/stenting before returning to the UK where he was then appointed a consultant in Manchester in 1999.

Dr Saqib Chowdhary qualified from St Thomas' Hospital, London having trained in cardiology and coronary intervention at University Hospital Birmingham, Walsgrave hospital (Coventry) and the University Health Network, Toronto, Canada.

Saqib has amassed in-depth training in all fields of general cardiology and coronary intervention both as a clinical SpR and as a Clinical Lecturer. He was awarded his PhD in Medicine in 2002 and has published extensively in the fields of nitric oxide, cardiac autonomic dysfunction and heart failure.

In 2003 he was awarded the prize of Young Investigator of the Year by the British Cardiac Society. Subsequently, he was awarded an international interventional fellowship at the Toronto General and Mount Sinai Hospitals, Toronto.

Dr Chowdhary is now a Consultant in Cardiology and Coronary Intervention at Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester. Dr Chowdhary has expertise in all aspects of general cardiology; angina, hypertension and heart failure in particular. His sub-specialist interest is coronary angioplasty and TAVI (transcatheter aortic valve implantation). He focuses on complex stenting including radial access procedures, chronic total occlusions (CTO), the use of intra-coronary imaging (IVUS and OCT) to improve the results of stenting and transcutaneous septal ablation for the treatment of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

Dr Richard Levy is a leading Consultant Cardiologist with a sub-speciality in Interventional Cardiology. The experienced physician provides first-class care with HCA Healthcare and held an NHS post at Wythenshawe Hospital (MFT).

The renowned doctor graduated from St. Bartholomew's Hospital in London in 1978 with a Medical Degree before completing his specialist cardiology training at University College London, The Middlesex, The National Heart and St Bartholomews Hospitals. He was appointed Consultant in 1993 at Wythenshawe Hospital and was Director of Cardiology from 2001-2006. While here he was worked on the Greater Machester and Cheshire Cardiac Network, where he reconfigured cardiac services and was responsible for the service improvement. He was appointed as the National Clinical Lead for the Heart Improvement Programme to redesign the management of interhospital transfers, angina and percutaneous intervention, along with being a member of the Department of Health Clinical Advisory Group. Dr Levy was heavily involved in research and was a finalist in the British Cardiac Society's Young Investor Prize. He is accredited in general medicine and cardiology.  

When not at work, Dr Levy enjoys spending time with his family. He keeps active by playing tennis, skiing, motoring and bridge.

See www.levyhearthealth.com

Dr Philip Lewis is a Consultant Cardiologist currently based at the private BMI The Alexandra Hospital and his current NHS post is Stockport NHS Foundation Trust. His areas of specialism are cardiology, general (internal) medicine and respiratory medicine. His areas of interest include hypertension, Resistant Hypertension, endocrine Hypertension including Conn's syndrome, hypotension (low blood pressure) and syncope, preventative cardiology, palpitations, and chronic fatigues syndromes.

Dr Lewis qualified in Medicine at St Thomas’ Hospital Medical School in 1971 with MB BS degrees. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London in 1992 and a Fellow of Edinburgh in 2000. In 2003 he became a Certified Hypertension Specialist. He has many professional memberships including British Society for Heart Failure, Manchester Medical Society and British Medical Association.

In addition, Dr Lewis is interested in research regarding hypertension, blood pressure measurement and presentation cardiology. He has also received many awards including Tite and Mellanby Scholarships, St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, London, and he offers courses to GPs, topics include palpitations, chest pain investigation and treatment and cardiovascular problems in pregnancy. 

Dr Jaydeep Sarma is a Consultant Cardiologist offering private healthcare for people across the North West of England and overseas. He offers private consultations, cardiac investigations and treatments for patients with a wide variety of heart problems, working closely with specialists in cardiac imaging, cardiac surgery, electrophysiology and other specialities to ensure he can offer you seamless care.

Dr Sarma gained his medical degree from Cambridge, and his PhD from Edinburgh. He has experience working in London, Nottingham, Leicester, Edinburgh and Brussels.