Dr Rakesh Sharma: Consultant Cardiologist

Rakesh Sharma MBBS BSc MRCP PhD, Consultant Cardiologist, London.

Specialist Expertise and Clinical Interest

Rakesh Sharma is a Consultant Cardiologist whose clinical expertise includes the management of patients with heart failure and complex pacing (including implantation of defibrillators and biventricular pacemakers).   

He continues to be actively involved in ground breaking clinical research and is the Principal Investigator for a randomised clinical trial on biventricular pacing at the Royal Brompton Hospital.

Professional Biography

Dr. Sharma was appointed as Consultant Cardiologist at the Royal Brompton Hospital in 2006.

He qualified from Guy’s and St. Thomas’s Hospital in 1995 with triple honours and underwent postgraduate training in tertiary centres in London. He won a British Heart Foundation fellowship to study his PhD in Cardiology at the National Heart and Lung Institute for which he was awarded the Young Investigator Prize at the American Heart Association. Subsequently, he has worked at Harefield and the Chelsea & Westminster hospitals as a Cardiology Specialist Registrar prior to his appointment as Consultant Cardiologist at the Royal Brompton Hospital.    

Dr Sharma also instructs on Cardiology courses for undergraduate groups through Imperial College, doctors in training and gives tutorials on advanced echocardiography to Consultant Cardiologists.

He also gives talks to patients in the cardiac rehabilitation programme at the Royal Brompton and Chelsea & Westminster Hospital.

GMC Registration: 4208321

Professional Memberships

·         General Medical Council

·         British Medical Association 

·         British Cardiac Society 

·         British Society for Heart Failure

·         British Society of Echocardiography

·         Medical Defence Union 

Publications

Over 50 articles published in peer-reviewed journals, 5 book chapters, and 30 abstracts. Recent journal articles include:

·         Sharma R, Sam Kaddoura. ‘The definition and management of acute coronary syndromes’. Current Anaesthesia & Crit Care 2005;16:305-312.

·         Sharma R, Anker SD. ‘Cytokines, apoptosis and cachexia – the potential for TNF antagonism’. Int J Cardiol 2002 Sep;85(1):161.

Dr. Sharma has presented at several national and international cardiology meetings. In addition to his specialist practice Dr Sharma is committed to medical education and the role of information technology in clinical innovation.

How can I see Dr. Sharma?

Tel:      020 7352 8121 ext 2060/8164

Fax:     020 7351 8634
Email: heart@sharmas.org.uk