Summary
Rakesh Sharma is Honorary Senior Lecturer at hte National Heart and Lung Institute and Consultant Cardiologist at the Royal Brompton Hospital.
Dr Sharma's clinical expertise includes the management of patients with heart failure, coronary angiography, and complex pacing (including implantation of defibrillators and biventricular pacemakers).
He qualified from Guy’s and St. Thomas’s Hospital in 1995 with triple honours and underwent postgraduate training in tertiary centres in London. He won a British Heart Foundation fellowship to study his PhD in Cardiology at the National Heart and Lung Institute for which he was awarded the Young Investigator Prize at the American Heart Association.
Subsequently, he has worked at Harefield and the Chelsea and Westminster hospitals as a Cardiology Specialist Registrar prior to his appointment as Consultant Cardiologist at the Royal Brompton Hospital.
Publications
Journals
Dubrey S, Shah S, Hardman T, et al., 2014, Sarcoidosis: the links between epidemiology and aetiology, Postgraduate Medical Journal, Vol:90, ISSN:0032-5473, Pages:582-589
Theron P, Guha K, Mantziari L, et al., 2014, General Anesthesia Versus Sedation for Implantation of a Biventricular Pacing Device for Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy, Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia, Vol:28, ISSN:1053-0770, Pages:280-284
Guha K, Konstantinou D, Mantziari L, et al., 2014, The impact of age on clinical outcomes following cardiac resynchronisation therapy, Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology, Vol:39, ISSN:1383-875X, Pages:95-102
Gulati A, Ismail TF, Jabbour A, et al., 2013, The Prevalence and Prognostic Significance of Right Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction in Nonischemic Dilated Cardiomyopathy, Circulation, Vol:128, ISSN:0009-7322, Pages:1623-1633
Conference
Arnold AD, Kouranos V, Wechalekar K, et al., 2014, Immunosuppressive therapy and upgrade of conventional pacemaker to CRT-D for dilated cardiomyopathy due to cardiac sarcoidosis, with discordance of disease activity between PET-CT and CMR, Annual Meeting of the European-Society-of-Cardiology (ESC), OXFORD UNIV PRESS, Pages:1205-1205, ISSN:0195-668X