Dr Badrinathan Chandrasekaran

Qualifications:  BSc, MD(res), FRCP. Experienced in all aspects of general cardiology, cardiac catheterisation, arrhythmia management, valvular heart disease and heart failure.     He graduated from Guys & St Thomas’ Medical school with honours and worked in Cambridge and Papworth where he decided to specialise in Cardiology.  His cardiology training was in the Wessex Region and he worked in Swindon as a Registrar.  He received the Robert Luff Fellowship for research at Imperial college and Royal Brompton hospital looking at novel biomarkers in heart failure and cardiac resynchronisation therapy.  He then completed his cardiac training with advanced fellowships in heart failure and electrophysiology at the Wessex Cardiothoracic centre in Southampton.  Delighted to return to Swindon as a consultant in 2011, he is the lead for echocardiography and has set up the stress echo and 3D echo service.  Under his leadership the echo department has also achieved national accreditation in 2013.  With his appointment the complex pacing service has been repatriated to Swindon and working with his colleague he has been instrumental in bringing the latest technology and innovations in pacing therapy to the local population.  He is also the educational lead for cardiology training at GWH and the educational lead for echo training in the Severn Deanery.   Active in research studies he has implanted the first 4 lead pacemaker in the U.K.  He is the principle investigator of a number of heart failure, pacing and echo studies.   He has published book chapters in the Oxford textbook of Medicine and The Oxford text book of Heart failure as well a number of publications in peer reviewed medical journals.  

Heart failure  Complex pacing with a special interest in physiological pacing Echocardiography including stress echo and TOE Cardiac catheterisation and implantation of pulmonary pressure monitors