Professor Elijah R Behr : Cardiology

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Specialises in

Electrophysiology

Offers

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About me

Professor Elijah Behr is a clinical cardiologist and electrophysiologist with an interest in all aspects of the treatment of arrhythmias including ablation and device therapies and cardiac genetic disorders. He completed his medical education at St John's College, Cambridge and Guy's Hospital, London with distinction. He was appointed to his current role in 2007 having undertaken clinical training and research at St George's. He is an international expert in the field of arrhythmias and is Professor in Cardiovascular Medicine at City St George's, University of London where he leads the Cardiovascular and Genomics Research Institute.

He runs nationally reputed clinical services diagnosing and treating patients with heart rhythm problems, including individuals and their families with genetic risks for arrhythmia, cardiac arrest and sudden death: the Sudden Arrhythmic Death Syndrome (SADS), channelopathies including long QT and Brugada syndromes; and cardiomyopathies. He leads a research group with interests in these conditions, the genetics and prediction of sudden death risk as well as drug-induced arrhythmia and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).

He is past president of the Association for Inherited Cardiac Conditions and the first chairperson of the European Cardiac Arrhythmia Genetics Group of EHRA. He has advised the NHS England Clinical Reference Groups for Cardiovascular and Genomics Services. He leads the NHS England Coronial Sudden Unexpected Death Pilot.

Areas of interest

Arrhythmias; Cardiac electrophysiology; Ablation; Cardiomyopathy; Sudden arrhythmic death syndrome; SADS; Syncope; Blackouts; Brugada syndrome; Long QT syndrome; ARVC; HCM; DCM; ACM; CPVT; catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia; hypertrophic cardiomyopathy; arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy; arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy; dilated cardiomyopathy; genetics; genomics; sudden death;

Medical secretaries

Amy Walker
Personal Assistant Surrey Cardiovascular Clinic 5 Huxley Road Surrey Research Park Guildford GU2 7RE
01483 467100
01483 467120
cardiology.enquiries@behr.org.uk

Asma Begum
Cardiology Medical Secretary Mayo Clinic Healthcare 15 Portland Place London W1B 1PT
020 3995 0211
cardiologyappointments-ukmch@mayo.edu

Anaesthetists worked with

Dr Pradeep R Madhivathanan Fee Assured

Dr Frank Schroeder Not Fee Assured

About me

External resources

Current NHS consultant posts held

Professor Behr is a Consultant Cardiologist at St George's Hospital specialising in cardiac electrophysiology and Professor in Cardiovascular Medicine at St George's University of London.

Professor Behr runs an arrhythmia service to manage and treat heart rhythm disorders. He also runs a nationally and internationally reputed multi-disciplinary clinical service to diagnose and treat families with sudden arrhythmic death syndrome (SADS) and inherited heart diseases.

Research interests

Professor Behr's research focus is the genetic, electrophysiological, clinical, epidemiological, and pathological investigation of sudden death. He has particular interests in Brugada syndrome, long QT syndrome and cardiomyopathies as well as sudden arrhythmic death syndrome (SADS). His aim is to develop new methods for risk stratification and prevention of sudden death.

Awards received

2023 British Heart Foundation Hero of the Year Award

2022 Visiting Professor of Cardiology, Cedars Sinai Hospital, Los Angeles, USA

2012 Visiting Professor of Cardiology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University, Denmark

Many international speaking invitations and key-note lectures at meetings of learned societies in the North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific regions.

Publications

333 articles; H-index 71 - Selected papers

B. Ensam, ..., ER. Behr. Type 1 Brugada Pattern May Be Provoked by Ajmaline in Some Healthy Subjects: Results From a Clinical Trial. Circulation 2024

R. Lampert, ..., ER Behr et al. Vigorous Exercise in Patients With Congenital Long QT Syndrome: Results of the Prospective, Observational, Multinational LIVE-LQTS Study. Circulation 2024.

Miles C,..., Behr ER. Subepicardial Cardiomyopathy: A Disease Underlying J-Wave Syndromes and Idiopathic Ventricular Fibrillation. Circulation. 2023

Zeppenfeld K,..., Behr ER, et al. ESC Scientific Document Group. 2022 ESC Guidelines for the management of patients with ventricular arrhythmias and the prevention of sudden cardiac death. EHJ. 2022

Wilde AAM,.., Behr ER, et al. EHRA/HRS/APHRS/LAHRS Expert Consensus Statement on the state of genetic testing for cardiac diseases. Europace. 2022

Miles C,.., Behr ER. Biventricular Myocardial Fibrosis and Sudden Death in Patients With Brugada Syndrome. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2021

Knops RE,..., Behr ER, et al.; PRAETORIAN Investigators. Subcutaneous or Transvenous Defibrillator Therapy. N Engl J Med. 2020

Miles C,.., Behr ER*, Sheppard MN*. Sudden Death and Left Ventricular Involvement in Arrhythmogenic Cardiomyopathy. Circulation. 2019

MÃ¤nnikkÃ¶ R, Wong L,.., Behr ER*, Matthews E *. Dysfunction of the skeletal muscle voltage gated sodium channel in sudden infant death syndrome. Lancet 2018

Papadakis M,..., Behr ER. The Diagnostic Yield of Brugada Syndrome After Sudden Death With Normal Autopsy. JACC 2018

Lahrouchi N,.., Behr ER. Utility of Post-mortem Genetic Testing in Cases of Sudden Arrhythmic Death Syndrome. JACC 2017

Nademanee K, .., Behr ER. Fibrosis, Connexin-43, and Conduction Abnormalities in the Brugada Syndrome. JACC 2015

Behr ER et al. Sudden arrhythmic death syndrome: familial evaluation identifies inheritable heart disease in the majority of families. EHJ 2008

Behr E et al. Cardiological assessment of first-degree relatives in sudden arrhythmic death syndrome. Lancet 2003
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My outcomes

My qualifications & training

Qualifications

BA Honours Cambridge University 1990
MD London University 2005
MA Honours Cambridge University 1993
MBBS with Distinction London University 1993

GMC registration

Reference number 4031491

Professional bodies (positions held - last 3 yrs)

Founder and First Chair European Cardiac Genetics Committee of EHRA 2020
Cardiovascular GECIP Domain lead for the 100,000 genomes project Genomics England 2022
Predisposition and Screening Research Netowork lead Genomics England 2024
NHS and Coronial Sudden Unexpected Death Programme Lead NHS England 2020
Clinical Reference Groups for Cardiovascular and Genomic Services NHS England 2020

Details of entry to specialist register

Cardiology , 2007

Affiliations / memberships

2019 European Cardiac Arrhythmia Genetics group of EHRA
2017 onwards Fellowship of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC)
2012 onwards Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians (RCP)
2012 onwards European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA)
2010 onwards Association of Inherited Cardiac Conditions (AICC) council
2007 onwards British Heart Rhythm Society (BHRS) and British Cardiovascular Society (BCS)

My private practice

Practice hours

Practice
Day
Hours
Appt Bookings

Mayo Clinic Healthcare15 Portland...
Monday
13:30 - 17:30
020 3995 0211

Surrey Cardiovascular Clinic
Wednesday
14:00 - 18:30
01483 467100

Post treatment communication

Following treatment of a Bupa member, I will communicate with GPs in line with Department of Health, GMC and appropriate professional bodies guidelines.

In the event of an urgent query following treatment, Bupa members should use the following contact details

Surrey Cardiovascular Clinic
01483 467100

Mayo Clinic Healthcare
020 39950211

Other ways of contacting me

I can be contacted directly using Skype. My Skype ID is: cid.9f87e954c9a1132d

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