Dr Francis Murgatroyd

Francis Murgatroyd is the Director of the Arrhythmia service at King’s College Hospital in London, UK. His graduated MA from Cambridge University and qualified medically from Oxford University in 1985. He trained in cardiology, subspecializing in electrophysiology, with John Camm, David Ward, and Edward Rowland in London and with Doug Skehan in Leicester, and has specialised exclusively in arrhythmias for the last 25 years. After a senior fellowship with George Klein’s group at the University of Western Ontario, he was appointed in 2000 as a consultant electrophysiologist at Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, before moving to King’s in 2004. King’s is the newest EP service in London but over the last decade has built up to around 500 device procedures and 500 ablations/year. The unit has a particular expertise in ablation of ventricular tachycardia. Francis has a longstanding research interest in ventricular arrhythmias and defibrillation. In the 1990s he led some of first clinical studies of internal cardioversion, and has worked on the early clinical studies leading to the development of the two type of subcutaneous defibrillator. Francis is on the council of Heart Rhythm UK, the medical executive of the Arrhythmia Alliance, and is the Clinical Lead and Chairman of the UK national device and ablation audits. He is known for research into arrhythmias and pacemaker/device therapy, and has published over 60 papers, 17 book chapters and three books in these fields.