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Specialises in

• Cardiac CT/MRI

• General cardiology

About me

Richard Underwood gained a first class honours degree in chemistry at Merton College, University of Oxford which included a period working in George Radda's laboratory using NMR and ESR in biological systems. He went on to study medicine. After general medical training he specialised in cardiac medicine learning both noninvasive and invasive techniques, and for 30 years he has practised noninvasive cardiac imaging, with major clinical and research interests in nuclear cardiology, magnetic resonance and in cardiovascular X-ray computed tomography.

Professor Underwood has worked at Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals, now part of Guy's & St Thomas's NHS Foundation Trust, and its academic wing, the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London. He has been closely involved in the development of magnetic resonance techniques for the investigation of the cardiovascular system, and has contributed substantially to its progression from research technique to every-day clinical tool. He has published and lectured widely and has directed or co-directed important training courses on nuclear cardiology at national and international level.

He retired from full-time clinical practice in 2023 and is now emeritus professor of cardiac imaging at Imperial College London, part-time locum consultant at Hull University Teaching Hospitals, and consultant at the BUPA Cromwell Hospital.

Non-medical interests include aviation, motorcycling, skiing and gastronomy.

Areas of interest

Cardiac nuclear medicine; nuclear cardiology; general nuclear medicine; myocardial perfusion scintigraphy; SPECT; PET; MPS; MPI