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Dr Shaikh is a Consultant Cardiologist with an interest in cardiac disease prevention and cardiac imaging. She is the founder of the Fresh Heart Project, an online media platform for evidence-based health and wellbeing information delivered via podcasts, videos and film. She has a research-driven, compassionate and holistic approach to health.

She qualified from the University of Nottingham in 2001. During her time as a junior doctor she worked in many locations including Cardiff, London and Liverpool. This provided a phenomenal breadth of experience leading to a firm grounding in all aspects of general medicine and cardiology.

In 2007, she undertook a PhD at Imperial College London, based at the Royal Brompton Hospital sleep laboratory. The main body of her work was funded by the British Heart Foundation. Her research explored the intersection between cardiac blood flow and respiratory disease at rest, with exercise and during sleep. Her PhD sparked an ongoing interest in sleep medicine and the relationship of sleep disorders with cardiac disease.

She completed her cardiology training in Liverpool in 2017 specialising in cardiac imaging, specifically advanced echocardiography and cardiac MRI.

As a consultant she has been the clinical lead for cardiac imaging and cardiology education in Wexham Park Hospital. She helped set up the cardiac MRI service at Frimley Park Hospital NHS foundation trust. She has lectured locally and nationally on topics ranging from cardiac MRI to sleep medicine.

Dr Shaikh currently runs community echocardiography clinics and is producing the initial slate of Fresh Heart Project short films.