Our Consultants

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Dr Anderson is the chair for the Heart Failure Task Group, South West London Cardiac Network. She sits on the Wandsworth Long Term Conditions Steering Committee, is a member of the St Georges Healthcare Associated Infections Taskforce and member of the Wandsworth Ethics Committee based at St George’s Hospital. Lead for cardiac rehabilitation, St George’s Hospital.

During Dr Anderson’s MD research at The Royal Brompton Hospital, she devised and developed a new Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging technique to measure iron loading in the heart. This research subsequently attracted a major project grant from the National Institutes of Health, America and Dr Anderson worked as the Lead Clinical Investigator on this project until taking up the post of Heart Failure Consultant for St George’s Hospital in 2005. It has recently been shown that the introduction of this technique has been associated with a greater than 70% reduction in death from cardiac iron overload in the UK thalassaemia population.

Appointments:
Secretary – Mandy Skeats. 020 8725 1220

• Consultant Cardiologist St George’s Hospital.
• Heart Failure Specialist and general cardiologist.

Specialist Interests

• Heart failure diagnosis, investigation and management
• Cardiac Resynchronisation Therapy assessment (biventricular pacemaker)
• Cardiac Resynchronisation Therapy optimisation
• Cardiovascular risk assessment
• Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Clinics: Ad hoc

Dr Shrilla Banerjee is a Consultant Cardiologist for Surrey and Sussex NHS Trust and also the Heart Hospital, University College London Hospitals NHS Trust. She qualified from Birmingham University in 1993. She completed General Medical training on the St George's Medical rotation, followed by posts at Guys Renal Unit.

She was a Research Registrar at the London Chest Hospital and has an MD in Cardiovascular Epidemiology. Her clinical Cardiology training was completed at the Royal Free Hospital, the Middlesex Hospital and UCLH.

She is a fully trained Interventional Cardiologist and has sessions for angioplasty and pacemaker insertion at both Surrey and Sussex NHS Trust and also the Heart Hospital, UCLH NHS Trust.

She has recently co-authored a textbook, Swanton's Cardiology, was published March 2008. She has published many papers, including articles in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Dr Banerjee will be available to see referrals for general cardiology, coronary artery disease, hypertension, cardiac arrhythmias and women's cardiac health.

Interests:

• Coronary artery disease
• Maternal Cardiac Health
• Women and Heart Disease
• Cardiac arrhythmias
• Vascular risk & metabolic syndrome

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Dr Bogle graduated from St George's Hospital Medical School and was the top student of his year with distinctions in medicine, surgery, clinical pharmacology and therapeutics. He was awarded the James Hope Gold Medal in Cardiac Medicine & Surgery, Brackenbury Prize in Medicine, Brackenbury Prize in Surgery, Bayly Brodie Prize in Paediatrics and the Elek Prize in Clinical Immunology. He was proxime accessit to the University of London Gold medal.

Dr Bogle is a member of the British Cardiac Society, British Cardiac Interventional Society, British Pharmacological Society and Royal College of Physicians. He has many original research publications covering all aspects of cardiovascular science and general adult cardiology. The quality of his research has been acknowledged by the award of the Geoffrey Rose Prize of the British Hypertension Society.

Specialist Interests:

• Coronary heart disease including angioplasty and stenting
• Hypertension
• Cardiovascular risk assessment

Private Secretary:
Miss Debra Nalden
Telephone (mobile): 07585 110012
Fax: 020 8711 2502
E-mail: debra.nalden@cardiac-report.com

Clinic: Thursday afternoons

Clinic: Monday afternoon/evening

Appointments: 0845 556 1304

Practice manager: Kate Haywood

Dr T P Chua graduated from St Mary’s Hospital Medical School, London, now part of Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine. He obtained first class honours in the intercalated BSc programme and graduated with the MBBS degree in 1987.

He passed the MRCP examinations at first attempt after which he took up cardiology specialty training in various London teaching hospitals including St Bartholomew’s, Royal Free, Royal Brompton and National Heart and Hammersmith hospitals. He was also a British Heart Foundation Research Fellow researching into heart failure.

Accredited as a specialist in the United Kingdom both in general medicine and cardiology, his special interests include interventional cardiology (balloon angioplasty and stenting), heart failure, hypertension and pacing. He is an NHS consultant cardiologist at the Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford and St George’s Hospital, London.

He is also a consultant at St Anthony’s Hospital, North Cheam, Mount Alvernia Hospital and Nuffield Hospital, Guildford.

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NHS Secretary 01483 464 099 (Royal Surrey) and 0208 725 1220 (St George’s)
Private Secretary 01483 207301

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Clinic: Friday pm/evening

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Clinic: Alternate Wednesday pm & every Thursday evening

Dr Mark Gallagher attended medical school and completed basic medical training and initial training in cardiology in Ireland, moving to St George's Hospital, London in 1996 to pursue subspecialist training in cardiac electrophysiology and pacing.

At that time, ablation as a treatment for cardiac arrhythmias was only a few years old. Dr Gallagher was a research fellow and later a registrar and senior registrar at St George's from 1996 to 2002 as ablation therapy for SVTs and VT matured, and as curative ablation for AF was first developed.

At the start of 2003, Mark moved to Rome where he started an interventional EP unit in the new university hospital "Policlinico Tor Vergata". He transferred from Rome to Cardiff in 2007, before returning, the following year to St George's Hospital.

Dr Gallagher has been the clinical lead in electrophysiology at St Georges since 2009, and consistently the busiest electrophysiologist in the region, performing 450-500 procedures yearly, most of them complex ablations or complex pacing procedures.

His field of particular interest is ablation for AF and other complex atrial arrhythmias.

Clinic: Alternate Thursday Afternoons

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Please call 020 8335 4678 / 79 to arrange a consultation. A GP referral is requested.

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MBChB, School of Medicine, University of Leeds 1994

Postgraduate training

• Leeds University Hospitals NHS Trust/teaching and district general hospitals of West Yorkshire rotation.
• Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust/ teaching and district hospitals in Nottinghamshire.
• Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital in Australia.
• MRCP (UK) 2000
• CCST in cardiology and general internal medicine, 2009

Professional career

• Consultant Cardiologist, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust.
• Honorary Consultant Cardiologist, St Georges Hospital NHS Trust.
• Dr Usha Prasad is a general cardiologist with an interest in the management of coronary heart disease including cardiac risk assessment, primary and secondary prevention, heart failure and imaging.
• Dr Prasad is a member of the British Cardiac Society, British Cardiac Interventional Society, British Society of Echocardiography, Royal College of Physicians, British Society of Cardiovascular Research, & the society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography.

Clinic: Wednesday am

Dr Qasim has expertise in all aspects of percutaneous coronary intervention with special interests in intra-vascular ultrasound and complex interventions, including left main coronary artery disease, bypass graft intervention and acute coronary syndromes.

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Dr Redwood qualified from St. George’s Hospital Medical School. He trained in Cardiology at The Royal London Hospital, The Royal Free Hospital and St. George’s Hospital, London. Interventional training was obtained at The Washington Cardiology Center, Washington, DC and Guy’s and St. Thomas’ Hospitals.

He obtained Fellowship of the American College of Cardiology in 2001 and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 2003.

Dr Redwood is Senior Lecturer/ Consultant Interventional Cardiologist and Director of the Cardiac Catheter labs at St. Thomas’, the highest volume catheter lab suite in the UK. He is also Lead Clinician for Research and Development and a Council Member of the British Cardiovascular Intervention Society. He is trained in all aspects of adult interventional cardiology including intravascular ultrasound, physiological lesion assessment using pressure-sensor tipped wires, stent implantation, rotational atherectomy and laser angioplasty including the laserwire for chronic total occlusions.

His MD thesis was on the subject of the pathophysiology of acute myocardial ischaemia and he currently has particular interest in interventional cardiology based research including risk analysis and prediction of events post percutaneous coronary intervention, evaluation of coronary stents and coronary artery physiology.

Clinic: Monday am

Prior to taking up a Consultant position in cardiac electrophysiology at St. George's Hospital, Dr. Saba served as Assistant Professor of Medicine for 4 years in the Division of Cardiology at the University of Maryland

After receiving his medical degree from the faculty of medicine at Cairo University, Dr. Saba completed a residency and obtained his M.Sc. in cardiovascular disease at Cairo University Hospitals. Subsequently, he completed his internship and residency in internal medicine at SUNY at Syracuse and the George Washington University. He completed his fellowship in cardiovascular disease at the Ochsner Clinic Foundation, where he was the recipient of the 2005 Charles B. Moore Research in Cardiology Award, followed by a fellowship in electrophysiology at Loyola University, Chicago. Dr. Saba is certified in internal medicine and cardiovascular disease.

Clinics: Alternate Tuesday afternoons

Appointments: 020 8335 4678/9

Dr Sharma obtained his training at The London Chest Hospital, St Georges Hospital, London, The Heart Hospital, London, and The Wessex Cardiothoracic Unit at Southampton University Hospital. Dr Sharma is highly experienced in dealing with a range of cardiac disorders including coronary artery disease, heart failure, valvular heart disease, cardiomyopathy, hypertension and arrhythmia. He commonly sees patients with a range of symptoms including chest pain, breathlessness, palpitations and blackouts.

Dr Sharma is considered a national and international expert in complex echocardiography (ultrasound scanning of the heart). This includes transoesophageal echocardiography, stress echocardiography, tissue Doppler imaging, contrast echocardiography and three dimensional echocardiography. These techniques allow a detailed evaluation of patients with suspected heart muscle disease, coronary artery disease, and valvular heart disease. He is a recognised expert of stress echocardiography for the DVLA and CAA.

Dr Sharma's main areas of research include the dynamic assessment of coronary and valvular heart disease and assessing cardiovascular risk in chronic kidney disease. His MD thesis was awarded in 2005 and is entitled: 'Assessing cardiac risk in end stage renal disease'.

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Secretary: Barbara Fisher Tel. 020 8725 1397

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Dr Arvind Vasudeva MA, FRCP, FESC is a Consultant Cardiologist at the Kingston Hospital NHS Trust, and at St. George's Hospital NHS Trust.

His practice encompasses all aspects of adult cardiology, including the management of ischaemic heart disease, coronary angiography, echocardiography (both trans-thoracic and trans-oesophageal), permanent pacemaker implantation, investigation of cardiac causes of stroke, the management of valvular heart disease and common arrhythmias, and the treatment of heart failure. He also has a particular interest in management of cardiac risk factors including hypertension and cholesterol.

Dr Vasudeva graduated from Clare College, Cambridge and Oxford University Medical School in 1987. He trained in General Medicine at Charing Cross Hospital and The Middlesex Hospital in London, before undertaking his cardiology training as a Specialist Registrar at St. George's Hospital, London. He undertook a period of research investigating the relationship between hypertension and cardiovascular damage.

In addition to his general training in Cardiology he has a special interest in Cardiac Imaging and in particular echocardiography, both trans-thoracic and trans-oesophageal.

In 2002 he was appointed to his current post of Consultant Cardiologist at Kingston Hospital NHS Trust and St. George's Hospital NHS Trust.

In 2004 he was elected Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology, and in 2006 he was elected Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians.

Dr Vasudeva is currently a member of the following professional organisations:

British Medical Association
Royal College of Physicians of England
British Cardiac Society
American Society of Echocardiography
British Society of Echocardiography
European Society of Cardiology

Clinic: Ad Hoc