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Current NHS consultant posts held

Consultant Cardiologist,
East Lancashire NHS Trust,
The Royal Blackburn Hospital
Burnley General Hospital.

Research interests

I have received several distinguished international awards for my research, including from the American Heart Association (2013) and Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (2014). I continue to be invited to give presentations and chair educational sessions at national conferences.

I have over 20 publications to my name in various peer-reviewed medical journals to date. I have authored the only Revision Aid book endorsed by the BSE for the BSE accreditation exam process.

I see all adult patient with chest pain and breathlessness who are likely to need cardiac CT scans and echocardiograms. I also see patient with palpitations, dizziness and blackouts who may need cardiac MRI +/- CT to assess for heart failure and cardiomyopathies.

Personal interests

Football, Music

Awards received

Young Investigator winner:
1. National Amyloidosis Symposium £1000 (2012)
2. American Heart Association $500 (2013)
3. SCMR Finalist (2013)

Other awards:
1. MRC grant (1998)
2. Distinction for BMedSci (Hons) 1999

Publications

Books:
1. Banypersad SM, Pearce K, “Successful Accreditation in Echocardiography” Wiley-Blackwell, ISBN 10 : 0470656921, Paperback. (Mar 2012)

Journal Articles:
1. Banypersad SM. The Evolving Role of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging in the Evaluation of Systemic Amyloidosis. Magn Reson Insights. 2019 May 1;12: 1-10.
2. Maestrini V, Birtolo LI, Cimino S, Severino P, Mancone M, Francone M, Banypersad SM, Ventriglia F, Tritapepe L, Miraldi F, Fedele F. Giant right atrium and subvalvular pulmonary stenosis: A case report of an interesting combination. Echocardiography. 2019 May;36(5):992-995
3. Fontana M, Pica S, Reant P, Abdel-Gadir A, Treibel TA, Banypersad SM. Prognostic Value of Late Gadolinium Enhancement Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance in Cardiac Amyloidosis. Circulation. 2016 Mar 22;133(12):e450-1.
4. Fontana M, Banypersad SM, Differential Myocyte Responses in Patients with Cardiac Transthyretin Amyloidosis and Light-Chain Amyloidosis: A Cardiac MR Imaging Study. Radiology. 2015 May 21:141744.
5. Banypersad SM, Fontana M, Maestrini V, Sado DM, Captur G, Petrie A, Piechnik SK, Whelan CJ, Herrey A, Gillmore JD, Lachmann HJ, Wechalekar AD, Hawkins PN, Moon JC. T1 mapping and Survival in Systemic AL Amyloidosis. EHJ 2015. 23; 36(4): 244-51
6. Fontana M, Banypersad SM. “Native T1 mapping in transthyretin amyloidosis” JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2014 Feb;7(2):157-65.
7. Sado DM, White SK, Piechnik SK, Banypersad SM, “The Identification and Assessment of Anderson Fabry Disease by Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Non-Contrast Myocardial T1 Mapping.” Circ Cardiovasc Imaging. 2013 1;6(3), 392-8.
8. Karamitsos TD, Piechnik SK, Banypersad SM, Fontana M, Ntusi NB, Ferreira VM, Whelan CJ, Myerson SG, Robson MD, Hawkins PN, Neubauer S, Moon JC. “Noncontrast T1 mapping for the diagnosis of cardiac amyloidosis.” JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2013 Apr;6(4):488-97
9. Banypersad SM, Sado DM, Flett AS, Gibbs SD, Pinney JH, Maestrini V, Cox AT, Fontana M, Whelan CJ, Wechalekar AD, Hawkins PN, Moon JC. “Quantification of myocardial extracellular volume fraction in systemic AL amyloidosis: an equilibrium contrast cardiovascular magnetic resonance study.” Circ Cardiovasc Imaging. 2013 Jan 1;6(1):34-9
10. Banypersad SM, Moon JC, Whelan C, Hawkins PN, Wechalekar AD. Updates in cardiac amyloidosis: a review. J Am Heart Assoc. 2012 Apr;1(2):e000364

Courses offered to GPs

Annual East Lancashire GP Network meeting, the Dunkenhalgh Hotel, Blackburn.