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Specialises in

• General cardiology

• Structural/Heart failure

Offers

• Face-to-face consultations
• Video and telephone consultations

About me

Sabiha initiated her career with a BSc degree in Physiology/Pharmacology at University College London for which she was awarded a 1st Class Honours. Following on, she completed her undergraduate medical training at Guy’s, King’s & St. Thomas’ School of Medicine, London in 2004. After completing her junior medical training as a doctor, she obtained membership of the Royal College of Physicians in 2007.

Subsequently, Sabiha was appointed as a Specialist training registrar in cardiology and has completed 5 years of specialist training in London with sub-specialisation in advanced echocardiography and cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR). She obtained her Certificate of specialist training in Cardiology and General (internal) Medicine in October 2016. Sabiha has level III accreditation in CMR (EACVI) and is accredited in echocardiography by the British Society of Echocardiography. She completed 3 years of her PhD research training involving echocardiography and inherited cardiac diseases. Sabiha won several awards and prizes for her research including the Hinchliffe Award for the most successful CRY research fellow of the year. After completing her PhD and specialist training, Sabiha embarked on a 12 month fellowship training in cardiac MRI at Royal Brompton Hospital and subsequently worked as a Consultant Cardiologist in the unit. Sabiha worked as a Consultant Cardiologist at Lister Hospital, Hertfordshire and and is now their visiting consultant. She currently works full-time at the Royal Brompton Hospital. Sabiha is also the Deputy Editor for the EHJ-Case Reports and the Section Editor for the EAPC sports cardiology quizzes.

Sabiha continues her work as a CRY Cardiologist and is an active member of the CRY pre-participation screening programme in athletes for the English Institute of Sport, Lawn Tennis Association, Premier Football League and Rugby Union. She has successfully published her work on mechanisms in Left ventricular Hypertrabeculation in Circulation journal. Her other peer-reviewed publications include work relating to Left ventricular hypertrabeculation in Athletes published in Heart, and ECG guidelines in athletes, published in European Heart Journal and recently aortic dimension in athletes in Heart. She also co-authored a land-mark study on cardiac screening in adolescent athletes in the NEJM. She has presented in several plenary sessions at the ESC, EuroEcho, EuroPrevent and ACC.

Areas of interest

General Cardiology-chest pain; palpitations; breathlessness; dizziness; blackouts; ankle swelling; heart failure; ischaemic heart disease; atrial fibrillation; tachycardia; valve disease.

Cardiac Investigations- Echocardiography; Stress echocardiography; Cardiac MRI; Cardiopulmonary exercise testing; Exercise Treadmill Testing.

Inherited Cardiac Conditions- Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy; Dilated Cardiomyopathy; Left ventricular non-compaction; Arrhythmogenic Cardiomyopathy; Marfan syndrome; Aortic disease.

Womens cardiac health - coronary spasm; microvascular ischaemia.

Sports cardiology - Competitive and recreational athletes with cardiac problems; exercise prescription.

Medical secretaries

• Gati Cardio Diagnostics
• 07966 660767
• gati-cardio-diagnostics@outlook.com