Dr Shohreh Honarbakhsh is a Senior Clinical Lecturer in Cardiology within the Centre of Clinical Pharmacology and Precision Medicine at the William Harvey Research Institute and an Electrophysiology Consultant at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, Barts Heart Centre. She has clinical and academic expertise in the mapping and ablation of complex atrial arrhythmias. Her work integrates translational research, procedural innovation, and digital health entrepreneurship, with a particular focus on persistent atrial fibrillation.

Dr Honarbakhsh completed her medical degree at Imperial College London in 2009 along with an intercalated BSc in Cardiovascular Sciences. She obtained two distinctions and the Faculty of Medicine prize for her overall performance in the final medical examinations. She completed her PhD in Cardiology at Queen Mary University of London in 2019 where she developed a novel mapping technology to guide catheter ablation in persistent atrial fibrillation. Her work resulted in two young investigator awards at the Heart Rhythm Society and Heart Rhythm Congress. Her work also resulted in the invention of the STAR (Stochastic Trajectory Analysis of Ranked signals), mapping system, and she is a co-founder of Rhythm AI Ltd. She completed her Cardiology specialist training at North Central-East Thames Deanery and obtained her Certificate of Completion of training in 2021.