Best Cardiologists in Westminster, London, UK

Dr Michael Papadakis is a Reader (Assoc. Professor) in Cardiology and an Honorary Consultant Cardiologist, currently working for St George’s, University of London and St George’s University Hospitals. His clinical interests are cardiovascular disease prevention, sports cardiology, inherited cardiac conditions, heart failure, cardiac MRI scans and echocardiography. His research interests are sports cardiology, inherited cardiac conditions, prevention of sudden cardiac death, and cardiac imaging.

Dr Papadakis obtained a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery from Imperial College School of Medicine, London in 2001. He was awarded a Medical Doctora from King’s College, London in 2014. He is a member of the Royal College of Physicians since 2007 and was awarded a Fellowship with the European Society of Cardiology in 2016. He is the chair of the section of Sports Cardiology and Exercise of the European Association of Preventive Cardiology (EAPC). Dr Papadakis' many years of clinical experience and his role in education make him an expert in his field.

Dr Papadakis is credited with over 80 publications in scientific peer-reviewed journals and numerous presentations in national and international conferences. He has contributed to a number of projects as an expert, including the creation of the Sports Cardiology core curriculum, the creation of the international ECG criteria for an athlete’s evaluation and exercise recommendations in individuals with heart disease. In 2016 he launched a novel MSc programme in Sports Cardiology, the first postgraduate qualification of its kind.

• Cardiac Rehabilitation
• ECG monitor (24 hours)
• Echocardiogram
• 24-hour blood pressure monitor 

• Cardiomyopathy
• High Blood Pressure
• Angina
• Arrhythmia (irregular heartbeat)

Professor Nikhil Patel is an experienced Senior Consultant Cardiologist practicing in Eastbourne and London for the last 20 years. He is the Deputy Chief of Medicine and Cardiovascular Director at East Sussex NHS Trust and holds a regional role as the Head of The School of Medicine for Health England Kent, Surrey and Sussex. He is a former President of the RoyalSociety of Medicine (Cardiac Section) and is the Chairman of the Academic Board

Professor Patel undertook his initial medical training at the Guy’s Hospital Medical School, part of the University of London, qualifying in 1989. Kickstarting his career, in September 1999, he was appointed as the then youngest Consultant Cardiologist in the country and now works mainly as a consultant at Eastbourne District General Hospital. He is a visiting Consultant Cardiologist at both Guy’s and St Thomas Trust and the Royal Sussex County Hospital Brighton.

Professor Patel specialises in General Cardiology including chest pain, heart failure, hypertension and cardiac arrhythmias (Atrial Fibrillation and Syncope). His subspecialty expertise is in complex pacing including cardiac resynchronisation therapy (CRT), internal cardiac defibrillators (ICD) and coronary intervention (coronary angioplasty and stenting).

Professor Patel, in addition to his practice, has a passion for teaching and undertakes a range of educational roles overseeing trainees and training programme directors in the School of Medicine. He is also a senior lecturer to Brighton and Sussex Medical Schools and a Professor of cardiology, health and well being. 

Professor Patel is active in the field of research, supervising higher research degrees at Msc and PhD level, and continuing to undertake research into cardiac devices management , heart valve disease, exercise and heart function, and areas of clinical cardiology.

Professor Patel is an expert in his field, achieving highly in his career thus far. In 2013 he was awarded a National Silver Award in recognition of his contribution to the health service.

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 Wright is a consultant cardiologist at Guys and St Thomas' NHS Trust and The Heart Rhythm Clinic specialising in the management of atrial fibrillation and atrial tachycardias. He is an expert in radiofrequency ablation for the treatment of atrial fibrillation and complex cardiac mapping technologies. He has published over 100 scientific papers and books and is regularly asked to speak at major international meetings. He regularly performs 'live' Atrial Fibrillation ablation cases to teach European electrophysiologists.

Dr Wright trained at University College London after being selected for the prestigious MB PhD programme. He specialised in cardiology and electrophysiology. Following training at Oxford, The Hammersmith and St. Mary's, he spent two years at the world-renowned arrhythmia centre in Bordeaux, with Prof Haissaguerre, Jais and Hocini. He is a Fellow of the Heart Rhythm Society, a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and the European Heart Rhythm Association.

• Cardiac Resynchronisation
• Electrophysiology
• Pacemaker implantation

• Arrhythmia
• Atrial Fibrillation
• Cardiomyopathy
• Palpitations
• Tachycardia

Dr Rajdeep Khattar qualified at the University of Southampton Medical School, before his specialist training in cardiology in North West London.

This included three years of clinical research in the fields of:

• cardiovascular imaging
• ischaemic heart disease
• hypertension
• heart failure.

This was followed by comprehensive training in both advanced echocardiography and percutaneous coronary intervention.

He joined Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust from Manchester Heart Centre. He is a consultant cardiologist and is also an honorary clinical senior lecturer at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London.

• Stress and contrast echocardiography
• Transoesophageal echocardiography
• 3D echocardiography
• Coronary angioplasty
• Stent implantation
• Intravascular ultrasound.

• Coronary artery disease
• Valvular disease
• Heart failure

Dr Oliver Guttmann studied at Cambridge and University College London, graduating with a first-class BA (Hons) in Neuroscience and merit in Medicine. He became a member of the Royal College of Physicians before completing his training in cardiology at the Heart Hospital, London Chest Hospital and the Barts Heart Centre. He obtained his MD (Res) for research in atrial fibrillation and stroke in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy at University College London.

Dr Guttmann now works as a Consultant Cardiologist at St Bartholomew's Hospital and Honorary Associate Professor at UCL. He consults in general adult cardiology and has a special interest in chest pain management and coronary interventions. Dr Guttmann also treats all patients with suspected or confirmed cardiomyopathies and has particular expertise in myocarditis and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Dr Guttmann also offers telephone and video consultations.

Dr Guttmann also takes an interest in research and has published articles on inherited inflammatory heart disease, risk stratification in cardiomyopathy and outcomes of percutaneous coronary intervention. 

 He is the Clinical Lead of the Coronary Care Unit at Barts Heart Centre. He also edits proposals for Cochrane Heart and is a member of the working group on pericardial and myocardial disease of the European Society of Cardiology and the Finance Committee of the British Cardiovascular Society.

Dr Lim is an experienced and dynamic electrophysiologist and cardiologist specialising in heart rhythm disturbances, pacing and syncope. He performs ablation for atrial and ventricular arrhythmias, both simple and complex and implantation of pacemakers and defibrillators. 

Dr Lim has a special interest in mapping and ablation of atrial fibrillation and is currently actively researching techniques for modulating the autonomic nervous system to treat atrial fibrillation and vasovagal syncope. 

He has published numerous articles on treatment for syncope and is frequently invited to speak at National and International meetings to share his experience in helping treat patients with syncope - he is also rated one of the best educators and teachers by his trainers at Imperial College. 

Dr Lim was voted by peers as top doctor in Cardiology in the UK in 2017 and 2018 by peers. 

https://www.topdoctors.co.uk/top-doctors-awards/2017

He is frequently rated highly by all his patients, and reviews can be seen directly on 

https://www.iwantgreatcare.org/doctors/dr-phang-boon-lim

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• Tilt table testing
• Electrophysiology and ablation 
• 24-hour blood pressure monitor 
• ECG monitor 
• pericardiocentesis 
• pacemaker implantation 
• echocardiogram 
• transoesophageal echocardiography 
• catheter ablation 
• defibrillator implantation 
• cardiac investigations 
• ECG
• exercise stress test 

• atrial fibrillation
• electrophysiology
• heart valve problems 
• inherited cardiac conditions 
• palpitations 
• dizziness
• long DT syndrome 
• ventricular fibrillation 
• heart failure 
• high blood pressure 
• non-invasive heart imaging 
• atherosclerosis 
• chest pain 
• bradycardia 
• heart rhythm 
• pacemaker 
• hypertrophic cardiomyopathy 
• valvular heart disease 
• congestive heart failure 
• heart attack 
• tachycardia 
• Syncope
• Blackouts
• Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome

Dr Mark Westwood is a Cardiologist currently based at the private practices 120 Old Broad Street and London Bridge Hospital. His current post is St Bartholomew's Hospital, London. His areas of specialism are cardiac CT/MRI. His areas of interest include chest pain, shortness of breath and palpitations and cardio-oncology. He is the current president of the British Society of Cardiac MRI, the UK's national representative body for cardiac MRI. He is also the vice president for training and education in cardiology in the UK.

Dr Westwood completed an MA at St John’s College, Oxford in 1994 and qualified in Medicine at St Bartholomew’s and London School of Medicine and Dentistry in 1997, with Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery degrees. In 2005 he completed a Doctorate of Medicine at Imperial College London. He is currently the Director of Medical Education at Barts Heart Centre, responsible for the training and education of junior medical staff. He is also the Training Programme Director for Cardiology for the North East Thames region in London.

In addition, Dr Westwood is interested in research regarding cardiac MRI and offers courses to GPs.

Diseases, Medical Tests and Treatments

• Cardiac MRI
• CT Coronary Angiogram
• Cardio-Oncology
• ECG monitor (24 hours)
• Calcium Coronary Score
• Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Scan (Cardiac MRI)
• Chest Pain
• Palpitations
• Cardio-oncology
• Coronary Artery Disease
• Dizziness
• Acute Coronary Syndrome
• Heart Attack
• Heart Murmurs
• Loss Of Consciousness (Syncope)

Dr Ozkor is a clinical director and speciality lead running a busy NHS practice - he regularly sees patients with a wide range of common cardiac problems. He is also an appointed Consultant Cardiologist. He sees patients privately at a number of locations.

He is a specialist in complex coronary treatments such as balloon angioplasty and stenting. He also specialises in radial access procedures and regularly performs an intervention to vein grafts and left main stems. He has experience in the use of interventional adjuncts such as thrombectomy devices, distal protection and rotational atherectomy as well as the interpretation of IVUS and pressure wire data. 

Dr Ozkor has an interest in putting patient safety first, has run multiple audit projects and run major clinical governance projects. 

Diseases, Medical Tests and Treatments

• percutaneous coronary intervention with stent 
• TAVI implanter 
• balloon angioplasty 
• stenting 
• coronary angiography 
• angina 
• hypertension 
• heart failure 
• valve disease 
• dizziness

Dr Amit Bhan is a Consultant Cardiologist at Barts Heart Centre and an Honorary Consultant Cardiologist at Great Ormond St Hospital for Children. He qualified from St Barts and the Royal London Medical School (Queen Mary and Westfield University) and obtained his MD(Res) degree from Kings College London. He then undertook specialist registrar training in cardiology in hospitals in the South-East and London, and subspecialist congenital heart disease training at The Royal Brompton, Guy's and St Thomas' and Great Ormond St Hospitals. After completing his training Dr Bhan undertook a fellowship in Catheter Intervention for Structural and Congenital Heart Disease at Barts Heart Centre where he took up a consultant position in 2017.

Dr Amit Bhan is an expert in interventional cardiology and has a special interest in the treatment of congenital heart diseases.

Dr Bhan is actively involved in clinical research and has co-authored numerous publications in the field of interventional cardiology.