Rajan Sharma: Consultant Cardiologist, Heart Specialist, St George’s Hospital, London

Dr Rajan Sharma MBBS BSc (Hon) MRCP MD, Consultant Cardiologist, obtained his training at The London Chest Hospital, St Georges Hospital, London, The Heart Hospital, London, and The Wessex Cardiothoracic Unit at Southampton University Hospital. He is a consultant cardiologist and director for echocardiography at St George’s Hospital NHS Trust, West London. His private consultation rooms include St Anthony’s Hospital, Cheam, Surrey, The Cromwell Hospital, London and The Harley Street Clinic, London.

Dr Sharma is highly experienced in dealing with a range of cardiac disorders including coronary artery disease, heart failure, valvular heart disease, cardiomyopathy, hypertension and arrhythmia. He commonly sees patients with a range of symptoms including chest pain, breathlessness, palpitations and blackouts. He is also involved in the cardiac risk assessment of patients which often requires more complex imaging such as cardiac MRI and coronary CT.

Extensively experienced in coronary angiography and permament pacemaker implantation, Dr Sharma is considered a national and international expert in complex echocardiography (ultrasound scanning of the heart). This includes transoesophageal echocardiography, stress echocardiography, tissue Doppler imaging, contrast echocardiography and three dimensional echocardiography. These techniques allow detailed evaluation of patients with suspected heart muscle disease, coronary artery disease, and valvular heart disease. He is a recognised expert of stress echocardiography for the DVLA and CAA.　

Dr Sharma's main areas of research include the dynamic assessment of coronary and valvular heart disease and assessing cardiovascular risk in chronic kidney disease. His MD thesis was awarded in 2005 and is entitled: ‘Assessing cardiac risk in end stage renal disease’.

He has made numerous national and international presentations and published many peer review articles in all aspects of quantitative echocardiography, coronary artery disease, cardiomyopathy, and valvular heart disease. He is the director of two nationally recognised echocardiography courses.

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Contact details

All enquiries for NHS and private consultations to Dr Sharma’s PA, Barbara Fisher

Department of Cardiology,

St George’s Hospital NHS Trust,

Blackshaw Road,

London SW17 0QT

Tel: 0208 725 1397

Fax: 0208 725 4402

E-Mail: barbara.fisher@stgeorges.nhs.uk　

GMC number:	4036953	Check this doctor’s GMC registration
Date of registration:	August 1994

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