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• Interventional cardiology

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About me

Krishna 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 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.

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. He was appointed as an Honorary Consultant in Interventional Cardiology at Barts in 2024.

Areas of interest

Research:
Krishna's primary research interests are based around translational interventional clinical trials, including phase I & II clinical trials. Other interests include the cost-effectiveness of therapies in cardiovascular disease, the treatment of reperfusion injury following myocardial infarction and observational studies of long outcomes following percutaneous coronary intervention.

Krishna is both chief and principal investigator on a number of multi-centre randomised clinical trials and registries. His areas of interest include:
Role of nitrite and nitrate on the cardiovascular system in both health and disease
Investigating sex differences in cardiovascular function and susceptibility to cardiovascular disease
Investigating the role of the microbiome in coronary artery disease
Risk-stratification in MI with normal coronary arteries
Patients with non-obstructive coronary artery disease
Cardiogenic Shock following acute coronary syndrome