FACULTY 2024

Professor Wong received his undergraduate degree from the University of Aberdeen. He completed the postgraduate fellowship in electrophysiology and pacing at St. Mary’s Hospital, London, in 2005.

In 2006, professor Wong was appointed as consultant cardiologist and electrophysiologist at Royal Brompton and Harefield hospitals. Since 2014, he has led the hospitals' arrhythmia clinical services and research programmes, focusing on the best ways to deliver care to patients with heart rhythm abnormalities.

Professor André Ng, Head of the Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, has revolutionised the way heart treatments and procedures are done.

Professor Ng is an expert in the management of cardiac arrhythmias especially in catheter ablation and the use of mapping systems in such procedures. He was appointed as Senior Lecturer in Cardiology at the University of Leicester in 2002 and Consultant Cardiologist and Electrophysiologist at the University Hospitals of Leicester and was awarded Personal Chair in Cardiac Electrophysiology in 2013.

Sana M. Al-Khatib is a tenured Professor of Medicine at Duke University Medical Center, a board-certified clinical electrophysiologist and an experienced clinical researcher in cardiac arrhythmias. She is currently the Director of the Fellowship Program at the Duke Clinical Research Institute. As a graduate of the NIH-funded Clinical Research Training Program, she is one of a few electrophysiologists nationwide with expertise in quantitative research methods. Her clinical expertise is in sudden cardiac death prevention, atrial fibrillation and ventricular arrhythmias, and implantable cardiac devices. Her research expertise lies in the design and conduct of clinical trials, outcomes research, and cost-effectiveness analyses.

Dr Suneet Mittal is the Director of the Electrophysiology Laboratory at The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, New Jersey and holds other positions in the Valley Health System and the Valley Medical Group. He currently practices in both New York and New Jersey.

Dr Jason Andrade is a Cardiac Electrophysiologist at Vancouver General Hospital in Canada, with joint appointment at St Paul’s Hospital and the Montreal Heart Institute. He is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of British Columbia (UBC), and an Adjunct Professor at the Université de Montréal. Dr Andrade is the Director of the Electrophysiology Program at VGH, as well as Head of the Atrial Fibrillation Clinic at VGH. He also serves as co-chair of the Canadian Cardiovascular Society Atrial Fibrillation Guidelines committee, and serves as the medical lead for the atrial fibrillation care in the province of British Columbia. He previously served as chair of the education committee for the Canadian Heart Rhythm society.

Dr David Gareth Jones read medicine at St Mary's Hospital Medical School (Imperial College, London), winning prizes in anatomy and histology. He was awarded a BSc scholarship and subsequently obtained first class honours in the field of cardiovascular medicine in 1997.

Dr Jones subsequently trained in clinical cardiology and both cardiac electrophysiology and cardiac devices at Green Lane (Auckland, New Zealand), Charing Cross, Hammersmith, Royal Brompton and Harefield hospitals.

His doctoral research (MD awarded 2013) was in the field of interventional electrophysiology in advanced heart disease, in particular, the role of ablation therapy in managing patients with atrial fibrillation and heart failure.

He has published and presented widely in the fields of cardiac electrophysiology and devices, including in the sub-specialist area of congenital heart disease and cardiac transplantation. He introduced and teaches ultrasound guidance for pacemaker procedures at the Trust, and together with colleagues has introduced high-density substrate mapping to facilitate procedures to treat atrial fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia.

Dr Daniel Lustgarten is an electrophysiologist at the UVM Medical Center Department of Cardiology in South Burlington, VT. He is also the Medical Director of the Cardiac Electrophysiology Research Laboratory at the University of Vermont Medical Center and a professor at the Larner College of Medicine at UVM.

Dr Lustgarten specializes in the treatment of cardiac disease and clinical cardiac electrophysiology, usually seeing patients who have an electrical disorder of the heart, such as atrial fibrillation, heart rhythm disorders, and intracardiac echocardiography. He believes strongly in providing treatment that will give his patients the highest quality of life possible.

Daniel Keene is a Clinical Senior Lecturer in Cardiac Electrophysiology and Devices based within the world-renowned National Heart and Lung Institute (NHLI) at Imperial College London. He is also a Consultant Cardiologist treating patients at both Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and the Royal Free London Foundation NHS Trust.

He is involved in all clinical aspects of inpatient and outpatient general cardiology but his clinical focus is in cardiac electrophysiology and complex devices. He has a diverse research portfolio spanning much of the cardiac implantable device landscape.

Dr Archana Rao serves as a Consultant Cardiologist at the Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital. She is a heart failure specialist who performs complex device and lead extraction procedures in addition to leadless pacing, subcutaneous ICDs and His bundle pacing.

Associate Professor in Internal Medicine/Cardiology, School of Medicine, Belgrade University; Head of Department for arrhythmia intensive care, Cardiology Clinic, University Clinical Centre of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia.

Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), ESC Grants and Research Committee member, ESC Council on Stroke Scientific Documents Committee member, Deputy Editor for Europace EP Journal, Section Editor for Thrombosis and Haemostasis. Chair of the 2020 ESC Guidelines on the diagnosis and management of atrial fibrillation.

Prof. Roland Tilz is the deputy director of the Medical Center II of the University Hospital in Lübeck and professor of invasive electrophysiology at the University Lübeck. He is committed to training in the field of “Invasive electrophysiology and cardiac rhythm implants”. Prof. Roland Tilz trained at the Addenbrooks Hospital in Cambridge (UK), Bedford Hospital (UK), Klinikum Bayreuth and at the Asklepios Klinik St. Georg in Hamburg.

John Silberbauer is a Consultant Cardiologist and Electrophysiologist working at the Sussex Cardiac Centre in Brighton. He has a special interest in ventricular arrhythmia ablation and enjoys teaching and research within the field. He undertook a 2-year VT fellowship under the tutelage of Dr Paolo Della Bella in Milan and has pioneered the Coronary Vein Exit and CO2 Insufflation technique for epicardial VT access.

In 2008, Prof. Sohns was a Resident in the Department of Cardiology and Pneumology at the Georg-August University in Göttingen, in 2015, Professor Sohns became senior physician specializing in electrophysiology in the cardiology department of the Asklepios Klinik St. Georg in Hamburg before becoming Deputy Clinic Director and Senior Physician at the Clinic for Rhythmology / Electrophysiology, Heart and Diabetes Center NRW, Ruhr University Bochum, Bad Oeynhausen.

John Whitaker has been an honorary consultant in cardiology, electrophysiology and devices at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust since 2023. He is also a clinical senior lecturer.

He has experience in the assessment and management of heart arrhythmias, with a particular interest in ventricular arrhythmias.