Professor Amanda Varnava

Professor Amanda Varnava is a Consultant Cardiologist and is the Clinical Director for cardiac and cardiothoracic services at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. She currently practices as a Consultant in Inherited Cardiac Conditions at Imperial College and sees patients privately at a number of locations in London and Bushey. She studied medicine at Oxford University and completed her primary medical degree at St Bartholomew's Hospital, University of London in 1990 where she was awarded triple honours..She then completed her specialist training in cardiology at a number of London's top cardiology centres, including St George's Hospital, the London Chest Hospital and the Royal Brompton Hospital. Professor Varnava also completed research in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and genetics and was awarded an MD. She gained specialist expertise in inherited cardiac conditions and sudden death syndromes and later established the Inherited Cardiac Conditions service at Imperial College London. In her current posts,Professor Varnava treats patients with a wide range of conditions, including: heart failure, inherited heart conditions, hypertension, coronary heart disease, cardiomyopathies and channelopathies. She also has expertise in sports cardiology and regularly evaluates sports people and athletes as well as performing pre-participation screenings in over 2000 footballers for a number of premiership football clubs including Arsenal, Watford, Liverpool and Chelsea womens and mens teams. Professor Varnava also sees pregnant women with known and suspected heart disease. She relaxes by spending time with her husband (Times Food editor), her 3 children and by running whilst listening to podcasts.

Syncope, palpitations, inherited cardiac conditions, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, dilated cardiomyopathy, long QT syndrome, Brugada syndrome, athletes heart