Editorial team
Editors
Peysh Patel
Dr Peysh Patel is a Consultant Cardiologist and Honorary Associate Clinical Professor based at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham. He studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge University with an additional sub-internship at Harvard University. His specialist interests are in heart failure, cardio-oncology and cardiac devices, with international board accreditation in the latter (CCDS). He is also subcommittee lead for Pace4Life, a charitable organisation (affiliated with Arrhythmia Alliance) that sources, reconditions and distributes pacemakers to underdeveloped countries.
Akriti Naraen
Dr Akriti Naraen is a Speciality Trainee Registrar in Cardiology and is currently undertaking a BHF awarded PhD in Conduction System Pacing at the National Heart and Lung Institute (NHLI) at Imperial College London. She has a keen interest in Cardiac Devices and Inherited Cardiac Conditions with several international presentations in these fields. She has postgraduate qualifications in Education and Health Research from Lancaster and Oxford Universities.
Sub-Editors
Dr Ayesha Javaid
Dr Ayesha Javaid graduated with an MBBS from King Edward Medical University, having obtained an intercalated degree in Bachelor of Science (BSC). She is currently a Cardiology Registrar in the Mersey Deanery with a sub-speciality interest in Electrophysiology and Devices and is planning to undertake research into ventricular arrhythmias.
Dr Banya Aung Mying
Dr Banya Aung Myint graduated with an MBBS from the University of Medicine – 2, Myanmar, in 2007 and has extensive experience in public health, particularly in HIV/AIDS and TB, working with Doctors Without Borders and Save the Children. After moving to the UK in 2018, Dr Myint became a Clinical Fellow in Internal Medicine. Currently, he is working as a cardiology trainee at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, West Midlands.
Dr Khin Kay Kyaw
Dr Khin Kay Kyaw is a cardiology speciality trainee registrar working at Southwest region, currently placed at University Hospital Plymouth (UHP). She is currently placed as ST5 clinical trainee at Derriford Hospital while she is co-working as academic tutor for University Hospital Plymouth. She is looking forward to percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and structural intervention as a sub-speciality in future and is currently actively involved in research project, analysing the prevalence of coronary artery disease in aortic stenosis patients who have undergone trans-catheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI).
Dr Nihit Shah
Dr Nihit Shah graduated from the University of Nottingham Medical School in 2017 with a BMBS. He obtained a BMedSci degree with honours in 2015 from the same university. He is currently a cardiology registrar in the West Midlands deanery and is particularly passionate about medical education
Dr Rahul Ghelani
Dr Rahul Ghelani is a Cardiology Speciality Trainee Registrar in the North East and Central Thames London deanery. He is currently undertaking a clinical PhD at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, investigating the electrophysiological substrate underlying Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy, using electrocardiographic and cardiac imaging. His sub-specialist interests include cardiac electrophysiology, cardiac imaging and inherited cardiac conditions.
Dr Richard Varini
Dr Richard Varini graduated with an MBBCh from Trinity College Dublin in 2014. He is a Cardiology Registrar trainee in the Wessex Deanery, current out-of-programme completing research at John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford. His subspecialty and research interests are in Electrophysiology and Device therapies.
Dr Susil Pallikadavath
Dr Pallikadavath is an Academic Clinical Fellow based in Leicester. His work has focused on endurance athletes who develop atrial fibrillation. In particular, he is interested in their risk of developing a stroke and the evaluation of abnormal intracardiac flow patterns that may extenuate this risk. His projects take advantage of the gold-standard in-vivo phenotyping that cardiac magnetic resonance provides. He is being trained by two internationally recognised experts in cardiac imaging in Professor Gerry McCann and Doctor Anvesha Singh.
Dr Vijay Shyam-Sundar
Dr Vijay Shyam-Sundar is a Clinical Research Fellow at the Queen Mary University of London. He graduated from Cambridge University in 2015 with an intercalated degree in Clinical Pathology. He is currently a Cardiology Registrar in the North East Central London Deanery with a subspecialty interest in coronary disease and intervention and has research interests in cardiac MRI, inflammatory heart disease and preventive cardiology. He assumes roles as an Associate Principal Investigator in the CE-MARC3 study and as a coinvestigator in PROTECT-HF. These responsibilities have provided him with invaluable experience, further enhancing his comprehension of research trials, and laying a robust foundation for his forthcoming research pursuits. Within the academic realm, his interests lie in the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Natural Language Processing (NLP), heart failure, and cardiovascular imaging.
Dr Yande Kasolo
Dr Yande Kasolo is a Cardiology Registrar in Mersey Deanery, sub-specialising in cardiac imaging. She also has a keen interest in Inherited Cardiac Conditions (ICC) and Sports Cardiology, and is about to embark on a fellowship in ICC at Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital. She is currently a sub-investigator on FOREST-HCM and a visiting research fellow at Liverpool John Moores University. She is passionate about both medical education and leadership, and has completed postgraduate qualifications in both subjects.
Dr Zafraan Zathar
Dr Zafraan Zathar is a Cardiology registrar in the West Midlands. He undertook his undergraduate training at University of Southampton with an intercalated degree at Imperial College London. He has maintained a keen interest in academia alongside his clinical commitments throughout his postgraduate training. His current research interests include coronary intervention and cardiac devices.