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Specialises in

• Cardiac CT/MRI

• General cardiology

Offers

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

About me

Dr Lavanya Athithan is a Consultant Cardiologist at Glenfield Hospital, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust and an Honorary Senior Lecturer with the University of Leicester. She is experienced and well versed in dealing with all aspects of cardiology and subspecialises in Multimodality Cardiac Imaging - transthoracic echocardiography, transoesophageal echocardiography, Cardiac MRI and Cardiac CT- as well as Heart Failure.

She graduated in medicine from Cardiff University receiving numerous undergraduate awards during this time. Subsequently she was awarded Membership of the Royal College of Physicians UK and went on to complete her training in Cardiology in the East Midlands.

She was awarded a competitive British Heart Foundation - BHF- Clinical Training Fellowship to complete her PhD in cardiac structural and functional changes in Type II diabetes with a focus on Cardiac MRI and Heart Failure. She was also awarded the National Institute for Health Research -NIHR- and Royal College of Physicians - RCP- for outstanding leadership and contribution to NIHR Clinical Research Network Portfolio Studies.

She has presented her work both nationally and internationally and she has published widely.

She is currently the Clinical Lead for Cardiac Amyloidosis in Leicestershire and she has set up a Cardio-Oncology Service across the University Hospitals of Leicester.

She is passionate about teaching and training and is part of the British Society for Heart Failure. She continues to be actively involved in clinical research as an Honorary Senior Lecturer with the University of Leicester. She was recently selected as an Ambassador for the British Cardiovascular Society - BCS and American College of Cardiology - ACC Advanced Imaging Fellowship with the Virginia Chapter of the ACC.

She is accredited in echocardiography - TTE , TOE, Cardiac MRI and Cardiac CT by the BSE- British Society for Echocardiography - BSE, SCMR -Society for Cardiac Magnetic Resonance and SCCT-Society for Cardiac CT respectively.

As part of her role as a heart failure doctor, she specialises in holistic, individualised patient care.

Areas of interest

General Cardiology;
Heart Failure;
Cardiac Imaging;
Echocardiography (transthoracic and transoesophageal);
Cardiac MRI;
Infiltrative Cardiomyopathies;
Cardiac Amyloidosis;
Cardio-Oncology;
Chest pain;
Palpitations