Professor Kiran PatelChief Medical Officer
Kiran Patel joined UHB as Chief Medical Officer and consultant cardiologist in March 2024. Before that he worked for five years as Chief Medical Officer and Deputy CEO at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, and prior to that worked for six years as Medical Director for NHS England (West Midlands). He graduated from Kings College, Cambridge University in 1993 and has been a practising consultant cardiologist since 2005. Kiran holds Honorary Professorships at the Universities of Birmingham, Warwick and Coventry.
As a senior NHS leader, Kiran has managed significant transformational change not only in cardiac services but as Medical Director for the West Midlands (2014-19), Clinical Director at West Midlands Strategic Health Authority (2009-11), and Medical Director for West Mercia PCT Cluster (2011-13). He was also clinical lead for the Coventry and Warwickshire STP (2019-22).
Kiran has been Chair of Trustees for the South Asian Health Foundation Charity since its inception and is a mentor for the Social Mobility Foundation, which encourages students from deprived communities into further education.
He has worked on healthcare policy and strategy with NICE, the Royal Colleges and the Department of Health for over two decades. Kiran served for nine years as a Non-executive Director for the BMJ group to drive globalisation of education and training to achieve its mission of a healthier world (2012-2021) and is now an International Editorial Board Member for the BMJ. He was recognised in the HSJ Top 100 leaders in 2014 and in the HSJ Top 50 BAME leaders in the same year. In 2021 he was recognised at the 37th most influential UK Asian in the GG2 power list.