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Author(s): Steven R Sigman Added: 3 years ago
Although less common than other forms of cardiomyopathy, cardiac sarcoidosis (CS), both as part of a systemic process and in its isolated form, is an important, and increasingly recognized disorder. This is felt to be due, in part, to advances in cardiac imaging and heightened awareness of the disorder.1,2 CS is associated with high rates of morbidity and mortality, including sudden cardiac death… View more
Job title: Consultant Cardiologist and Honorary Senior Lecturer
Dr Shanmugam graduated from King’s College, University of London with a BSc (Hons) in 1998. He trained on the South West London Cardiology rotation and completed specialist cardiology training in 2013. He completed an international fellowship at the National Heart Centre/Duke-NUS Singapore in device therapy and advanced cardiac imaging, before being appointed as a consultant cardiologist in… View more
Job title: Clinical Director of Imaging
Personal History Prof James C. Moon is a Cardiology Professor at University College London and Clinical Director of Imaging at Barts Heart Centre. He is known for the use of cardiac MRI and for developing mapping techniques to bridge clinical and basic investigators.5 Academic History Professor Moon graduated with a BA from the University of Cambridge in 1992. He then went on to… View more
Research Area(s) / Expertise: Job title: Director of Cardiac MRI and Structural CT Labs
Dr João L. Cavalcante earned his medical degree the Universidade Federal do Ceará in Fortaleza, Brazil. He did his internal medicine residency, chief residency and cardiology fellowship training at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan with Level II training in nuclear cardiology. He completed a dedicated 2-year advanced cardiovascular imaging fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic obtaining… View more
Job title: Director, Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Associate Professor
Dr Raymond Kwong is the director of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH)and an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS). Dr Kwong received his medical degree from University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine and completed a residency in internal medicine at Vancouver General Hospital and a fellowship in cardiovascular disease at The… View more
Dr. Warren Manning, currently Section Chief of Non-invasive Cardiac Imaging in Cardiology, and Professor of Medicine and Radiology, Harvard Medical School, received his M.D degree from Harvard Medical School and did his residency in Internal Medicine and subspecialty training in Cardiology at the former Beth Israel Hospital in Boston. His academic interest is non-invasive cardiac imaging and his… View more
Author(s): Ronan J Curtin , Milind Y Desai Added: 3 years ago
Accurate quantification of ventricular volumes and function is important for the assessment and management of patients with suspected ischemic and non-ischemic cardiomyopathies. 2D echocardiography is widely used for qualitative and semi-quantitative assessment of cardiac size and function. However, 2D echocardiography has limited accuracy, particularly in patients with regional variability in… View more
Research Area(s) / Expertise: Job title: Interventional Cardiologist
Dr Anita Asgar is an Interventional Cardiologist working at the Montreal Heart Institute,and Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Montreal. Dr Asgar specialises in transcatheter valve interventions, congenital interventions and cardiac MRI. She is the lead cardiologist for the transcatheter mitral/tricuspid valve program at the Montreal Heart Institute. Her research interests… View more
Job title: Clinical Senior Lecturer in Paediatric Cardiology
Dr Kuberan Pushparajah is a clinical senior lecturer in paediatric cardiology in the School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences at King's College London. He is also an honorary consultant paediatric cardiologist at the Evelina London Children's Hospital, London. His interests are in cardiovascular imaging, namely in the fields of magnetic resonance imaging and advanced echocardiography… View more