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• Interventional cardiology

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About me

Krishna is a highly accomplished, award winning Cardiologist who has an international reputation in heart coronary artery disease. He is an Interventional Cardiology Consultant at Barts Heart Centre in London, UK and a Senior Clinical Lecturer at The William Harvey Research Institute at Queen Mary University of London (UK). His clinical interests are within complex coronary intervention, particularly complex high risk interventional procedures (CHIP) cases. He has an academic interest in observational studies and outcomes following percutaneous coronary intervention and has over 130 peer reviewed publications and has over 250 abstracts. He has also presented at over 50 International Cardiology conferences. Other research interests include conducting interventional clinical trials. He completed a PhD in translational medicine at Queen Mary University of London funded via a prestigious NIHR doctoral research fellowship where he investigated the impact of dietary nitrate (in the form of beetroot juice) on renarrowing within stent. This work led to interviews with a number of National Newspapers (including Daily Express and The Sun) and multiple publications in high impact journals (including Lancet eClinicalMedicine). Furthermore, he has presented his research at the leading national and international cardiology conferences around the world, including the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) and EuroPCR. In addition to winning many prizes, he warded the Vogt Prize for the best National PhD in Clinical Pharmacology (warded by BPS) and a finalist at the Royal Society of Medicine Gold Medal 2023 as well as a finalist for BCIS Young Investigator 2015.

Krishna completed medicine at Barts School of Medicine with two distinctions and an intercalated degree in Molecular Therapeutics (1st Class Hons). He completed a prestigious NIHR Academic Clinical Lectureship at QMUL and Barts following the completion of his PhD and completed training in Interventional Cardiology alongside continuing translational and clinical research. His research and clinical expertise has results in over 100 International and National prizes and honours. He was appointed as an Honorary Consultant in Interventional Cardiology at St. Bartholomew's Hospital in 2024.

Krishna has over 130 high impact publications (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=krishnaraj+rathod+or+krishna+rathod+or+ks+rathod&sort=date), including the Circulation, European Heart Journal, the Journal of American College of Cardiology, the New England Journal of Medicine and the Lancet. Krishna has designed and led influential research studies and contributed to landmark international trials that have reshaped interventional cardiology practice globally.

Krishna is an internationally recognised expert in interventional cardiology and intracoronary imaging (IVUS and OCT), an advanced technique which can help guide Cardiologists on when and where a coronary stent is needed as well as how to implant and optimise the stent. Krishna is deeply committed to improving patient outcomes through the development, evaluation, and clinical application of innovative medical technologies. He has led and contributed to ground-breaking research in invasive cardiovascular technologies that has significantly influenced contemporary practice and translated into improved treatment strategies for patients worldwide. Recent high-quality research has established intracoronary imaging as an emerging 'benchmark' for the optimisation of coronary stent implantation, with several large-scale international trials currently underway.

He is recognised globally as a key opinion leader in his field and this is reflected in numerous roles in multicentre clinical trials, invited lectures at major conferences and also as an editor/reviewer of numerous journals including JACC, EHJ and Circulation. He is also on the editorial board for several high impact journal including JAHA.

Areas of interest

Coronary artery disease, ischaemic heart disease, Cardiac disease prevention, Chest pain, Palpitations, Shortness of breath, Dizziness, Collapse, Angina, Heart attacks, Acute coronary syndromes, Heart Failure, Cardiomyopathy, Cardiac Valve disease, Aortic stenosis, Aortic regurgitation, Mitral regurgitation, Mitral stenosis, Hypertension / high blood pressure, Hypercholesterolaemia / high cholesterol, Cardiac risk assessment, Coronary angiography, Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with/without stenting, multi-vessel coronary disease, complex PCI, high-risk PCI, ultra-low contrast PCI, Advanced adjunctive intracoronary technologies, Fractional flow reserve (FFR), Instant wave free ratio (IFR), Coronary flow reserve (CFR), Intravascular Ultrasound (IVUS), Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT), Echocardiography, Reporting of echocardiography