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Date: 18 January 2021
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Consultant directory
With so many consultants, all with special interests, we appreciate it can be difficult for GPs to make the right referral choice, and it can be confusing for patients.
This consultant directory is offered as an easy reference guide to the specific clinical services and interests of all the consultants working at or for University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust.
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- Secretary: 0121 371 4893
- Extension: 14893
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Dr Joseph de Bono, Consultant Cardiologist and Electrophysiologist
Specializes in the management of abnormal heart rhythms. Qualified from Oxford University. Trained in Oxford before undertaking a senior fellowship in electrophysiology at the Heart Hospital, London. Interests in the management of atrial fibrillation.
- Secretary: 0121 371 4493
- Extension: 14493
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Dr Sarah Bowater, Consultant Cardiologist
Graduated from London and completed specialist training in Birmingham. Specialises in adult congenital heart disease. Interests include heart failure, supportive care and heart disease in pregnancy and pulmonary hypertension in ACHD.
- Secretary: 0121 371 4448
- Extension: 14448
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Dr William Bradlow , Consultant Cardiologist (Imaging, Heart Muscle Disease)
Undertook echocardiography in Auckland and cardiovascular magnetic resonance at the Royal Brompton Hospital before training in Oxford.
- Secretary: 0121 371 4731
- Extension: 14731
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Dr Paul Clift, Consultant Cardiologist, Adult Congenital Heart Disease
Trained at Birmingham Children's Hospital and the Great Ormond Street and Heart Hospital in London. Is a specialist in adult congenital heart disease. Has carried out varied research into congenital heart disease.
- Secretary: 0121 371 4036
- Extension: 14036
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Dr Purushottam Desai, Consultant Cardiologist
Graduated from Bombay University in 1986. Training in adult and paediatric cardiology at King Edward VII Hospital, Mumbai. Cardiology training in London and Midlands. Joined the Trust in 2009. Special interest in the field of heart failure.
- Secretary: 0121 371 4613
- Extension: 14613
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Dr Sagar Doshi, Consultant Cardiologist, Ischaemic Heart Disease, Coronary Angioplasty
Obtained his first medical qualifications in Wales in 1990. Specialist clinical interest is in angioplasty. Research interests include stents, bifurcations and coronary angioplasty.
- Secretary: 0121 371 4474
- Extension: 14474
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Dr Nicola Edwards, Consultant Cardiologist
Dr Edwards specialises in heart valve abnormalities as well as the use of heart imaging techniques of ultrasound (echocardiography) and MRI. Graduated from the University of Nottingham and trained in cardiology in the West Midlands and New Zealand.
- Secretary: 0121 371 4474
- Extension: 14474
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Dr Sudhakar George, Consultant interventional cardiologist
Graduated from the University of Cambridge. Gained an MD after a period of research in Brighton. Cardiology training in the West Midlands before a fellowship in percutaneous coronary intervention in Auckland, New Zealand.
- Secretary: 0121 371 4494
- Extension: 14494
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Dr Lucy Hudsmith, Consultant Cardiologist
Special interests in congenital heart disease, obstetric cardiology and cardiac MRI.
- Secretary: 0121 371 4628
- Extension: 14628
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Dr Paul Jordan, Consultant Cardiologist
Biography pending.
- Secretary: 0121 371 4722
- Extension: 14722
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Dr Sohail Q Khan, Consultant Cardiologist, Interventional Cardiology
Qualified from University of Edinburgh. BHF Fellowship and MD from University of Leicester. Undertook cardiology training in Manchester and advanced training in Toronto, Canada. Interests in cardiac markers and angioplasty.
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Dr Dipak Kotecha, Honorary Consultant Cardiologist
Works with the University of Birmingham and is a Fellow of both the National Institute for Health Research and the European Society of Cardiology. Main research focus is the treatment of patients with heart failure and atrial fibrillation.
- Secretary: 0121 371 4893
- Extension: 14893
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Dr Mauro Lencioni, Consultant Cardiologist
Undertook undergraduate degrees and early training in South Africa. Once in the UK trained in general medicine (MRCP) and then specialised in cardiology and specifically electrophysiology. Received an MD degree from the University of Warwick.
- Secretary: 0121 371 4621
- Extension: 14621
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Professor Francisco Leyva, Consultant Cardiologist
He has a special interest in cardiac device therapy and heart failure as well as cardiovascular magnetic resonance. He has published extensively in heart failure, pacemakers, cardiac resynchronisation therapy and cardiovascular magnetic resonance.
- Secretary: 0121 371 4895
- Extension: 14895
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Dr Sern Lim, Consultant Cardiology/Heart Transplantation
Special interests in heart failure and heart transplantation, pacemakers and defibrillators.
- Secretary: 0121 371 4630
- Extension: 14630
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Professor Peter F Ludman, Consultant Cardiologist
He has previously worked as a consultant cardiologist at Birmingham Heartlands Hospital and as senior registrar at the Papworth Hospital, Cambridge. Since 2002, he has been audit officer for the British Cardiovascular Intervention Society.
- Secretary: 0121 371 4039
- Extension: 14039
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Dr Howard J Marshall, Consultant Cardiologist, Cardiac Rhythm Disorders
First qualified in Leeds in 1988, he has since gained an MBChB, an MD and an MRCP. His clinical interests are in pacing and electrophysiology.
- Secretary: 0121 371 4399
- Extension: 14399
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Dr Adnan Nadir, Consultant in Inteventional Cardiology/Structural Heart Interventions
Dr. Nadir is an expert in treating coronary heart and valve diseases. He had advanced training in coronary & structural heart interventions including TAVI & MitraClip in the USA before his consultant appointment in Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
- Secretary: 0121 371 4615
- Extension: 14615
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Professor Russell Smith, Consultant Cardiologist
A general cardiologist who works closely with the heart failure team. He concentrates on education & training. He's the West Midlands Postgraduate Dean, chairs the Cardiology SAC and is Vice President (Training) of The British Cardiovascular Society.
- Secretary: 0121 371 4035
- Extension: 14035
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Dr Richard P Steeds, Consultant Cardiologist, Valvular Heart Disease, Cardiac Imaging, Nuclear Cardiology and Cardiovascular MRI
Clinical interest is diagnosis of heart problems through cardiac imaging, he has expertise in echocardiography (including Tissue Doppler, contrast and stress imaging), CMR imaging, nuclear cardiology and cardiac CT.
- Secretary: 0121 371 4623
- Extension: 14623
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Professor John N Townend, Consultant Cardiologist, Interventional Cardiology and Heart Transplantation
An interventional cardiologist undertaking coronary angioplasty procedures and participating in the primary angioplasty service. Runs a general cardiology outpatient clinic and the assessment service for the heart transplant programme.
- Secretary: 0121 627 2541
- Extension: 2541
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Dr Samuel White, Consultant Cardiologist
Graduated from the University of Liverpool in 2004 and undertook Cardiology and General Internal Medicine training in the West Midlands. Appointed as a Consultant to the trust in 2016 with a specialist interest in heart failure.
- Secretary: 0121 371 4745
- Extension: 14745
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Dr Alex Zaphiriou, Consultant Cardiologist
Dr Zaphiriou trained in the West Midlands and specialises in coronary intervention with an interest in complex interventions using adjuvant technology such as rotational and LASER atherectomy and left ventricular assist devices in high risk patients.