Professor Ajay Shah is BHF Professor of Cardiology and Head of Cardiovascular Division. He is also Director of King’s BHF Centre of Research Excellence, and Honorary Consultant Cardiologist.
Schedule
Arrivals from 15.15
Cheese and wine reception at 16.30pm
Biography
Ajay Shah is British Heart Foundation Professor of Cardiology and Director of the Cardiovascular Division at King’s College London and King’s Health Partners AHSC. He is also the Director of the King’s British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence, one of the two largest such centres in the UK. He remains an active practising cardiologist with interests in percutaneous coronary intervention, heart failure and pulmonary hypertension.
He is a graduate of the University of Wales College of Medicine (1982) and trained in Cardiology in Cardiff, Wales. He undertook his doctoral and postdoctoral research training in the labs of Andrew Henderson (Wales), Dirk Brutsaert (Belgium) and Edward Lakatta (NIH, Baltimore). He was a BHF Intermediate Fellow and then a UK Medical Research Council Senior Clinical Research Fellow prior to his appointment to the Chair at King’s in 1998.