Prof. Roby Rakhit

BSc (1^st Class Hons) MD FRCP FESC

Consultant Interventional Cardiologist Royal Free Hospital and Honorary Professor, of Cardiology, Institute of Cardiovascular Science, UCL.

Senior consultant interventional cardiologist and currently divisional director of Cardiovascular services at the Royal Free hospital. Qualified from Charing Cross & Westminster Medical School (Imperial College) with general cardiology and interventional training in London and Switzerland. Academic training has included a Wellcome Research Fellowship at the Rayne Institute, St.Thomas` Hospital, Kings College London (MD) and British Heart Foundation International Fellowship at the Swiss Cardiovascular Centre, Bern (Prof B Meier). He combines a busy clinical job with an active teaching and translational research programme at UCL having supervised a number of MD(Res) and PhD fellows. He is lead for cardiovascular research at the Royal Free hospital with interests in acute coronary syndrome, microparticles, intra- coronary imaging, coronary physiology, risk assessment and prevention in high-risk coronary artery disease cohorts (diabetes, familial hyperlipidemia and HIV).