Professor Prof Neil Ruparelia

Prof  Neil Ruparelia was awarded his medical degree from University College London in 2004 and an intercalated degree (BSc) in Medical Law receiving numerous prizes. He completed specialist training in cardiology in Oxford with specialist interventional fellowships at the Hammersmith Hospital, London and a year in Milan, Italy at the world-famous San Raffaele Scientific Institute during which time he was awarded a MSc in interventional cardiology. He was awarded a DPhil (PhD) from Balliol College, University of Oxford funded by a British Heart Foundation Clinical Research Fellowship. During this time, he was also the recipient of a British Heart Foundation travel fellowship to the Broad Institute (MIT) and Harvard Medical School (Boston, USA). He was the winner of numerous prizes including President's Gold Medical in Cardiology from the Royal Society of Medicine and investigator prizes from the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), American Heart Association (AHA). He is an author of over 100 publications including original papers, editorials, review articles and book chapters and is regularly invited to speak at both national and International conferences and act as a reviewer for a number of international medical journals. In 2017 he was awarded Fellowship of the European Society of Cardiology (FESC) and appointed Consultant Cardiologist between the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading and the Hammersmith Hospital, London and in 2018 appointed Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at Imperial College London. In 2020 he was appointed Visiting Professor in Biological Sciences at the University of Reading and Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians.

Stent implantation (percutaneous coronary intervention -PCI) Chronic total occlusion (CTO) Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) Patent Foramen Ovale (PFO) closure Atrial Septal Defect (ASD) closure General cardiology Palpitations Permanent pacemaker implantation Echocardiography - trans thoracic / transoesophageal Chest pain Breathlessness Cardiovascular risk assessment / management Left atrial appendage Closure