Dr Sabiha Gati

Sabiha currently works as a full-time consultant cardiologist at the Royal Brompton Hospital, London in the Inherited Cardiac conditions service and CMR imaging unit and is the lead for the Sports Cardiology service. 

Sabiha obtained her MBBS from Guy’s, King’s & St.Thomas’ School of Medicine, London in 2004. After completing her junior medical training as a doctor, she obtained membership of the Royal College of Physicians in 2007. She achieved her PhD at St. George’s University in 2013 and completed her Cardiology training in 2016.  

Currently a Clinical Consultant Cardiologist at Royal Brompton Hospital dedicated to Sports cardiology, exercise cardiac health, cardiomyopathies and cardiac MRI and Honorary Senior Lecturer Imperial College London.  

Sabiha’s main clinical focus include managing the cardiac health for both recreational and competitive athletes, female athletes, individuals with cardiac conditions who would like to exercise safely, providing an exercise prescription, cardiac screening, genetic cardiomyopathies including
hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, dilated cardiomyopathy and arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy. She also reports on cardiac MRIs.  

Major research interests include assessing cardiac structural diseases in athletic and young individuals ages 14-35 years old, refining ECG interpretation in athletes and reducing the risk of sudden cardiac death in the young population. Sabiha continues her work as a CRY Cardiologist
and is an active member of the CRY pre-participation screening programme. She has successfully published her work on mechanisms in Left ventricular Hypertrabeculation in Circulation journal. Her other peer-reviewed publications include work relating to Left ventricular hypertrabeculation in Athletes published in Heart, and ECG guidelines in athletes, published in European Heart
Journal and recently aortic dimension in athletes in Heart. She also co-authored a land-mark study on cardiac screening in adolescent athletes in the NEJM  

More recently, Sabiha is a board member of the EAPC and of the EAPC sports cardiology section nucleus and has also been a member of the expert task force for the ESC guidelines in sports cardiology and exercise in individuals with cardiovascular diseases. She has presented in several plenary sessions at the ESC, EuroEcho, EuroPrevent and ACC.