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Dr Riyaz Patel is a consultant cardiologist and clinical academic working at Barts Health and UCLH NHS trusts and University College London (UCL). He graduated from King’s College London in 2001 and was subsequently elected to Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians and the European Society of Cardiology in 2018. Having trained and worked across major teaching hospitals in London and the USA, he is highly experienced in managing all general cardiology conditions, with a focus on advanced cardiac imaging and premature coronary artery disease.  

Dr Patel is also a fully funded BHF clinician scientist and associate professor at UCL, who conducts research into the causes of heart disease, with a focus on cardiovascular risk and genetics of coronary heart disease. He leads global initiatives and consortia in this field with a track record of research funding and high profile research publications. 

Clinically, Dr Patel sees and manages patients with all general cardiology problems, including chest pain breathlessness, palpitations, high blood pressure among others. He is a recognised specialist in advanced cholesterol management including familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH), being one of only a handful of cardiologists in the UK with this expertise. In addition, in line with his research expertise, he investigates and manages patients with possible genetically driven coronary artery disease, including early onset heart disease or those who are well but have a strong family history of early heart disease. Dr Patel founded and leads the new cardiovascular prevention service at the Barts Heart Centre, a service modelled on those available in the USA at centres such as the Mayo Clinic, to serve the local population of East London. 

Aside from general cardiology Dr Patel is also a fully accredited and recognised specialist in advanced echocardiography, which includes stress (exercise and pharmacological) and transoesophageal echocardiography (TOE), and cardiac and coronary CT angiography, and provides these tests at the Barts Heart Centre.