Coronary Physiology

Dr Simon Kennon qualified from Manchester Medical School in 1992. He completed general medical training in and around London (Royal Free Hospital, Southend General Hospital, Newham General Hospital and the London Chest Hospital) before training in General and Interventional Cardiology at St Bartholomew’s and the London Chest Hospitals. His training continued with a fellowship in interventional cardiology at St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia.

He was appointed as a Consultant Cardiologist in 2005. His NHS work is divided between the London Chest Hospital (Barts Health NHS Trust) and Barnet & Chase Farms Hospital NHS Trust.

His private practice is based at the King’s Oak Hospital, the Cavell Hospital and the London Independent Hospital.

Dr Kennon is experienced in the management of all general cardiology conditions (including palpitations, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol), but his special interests are the assessment…

• Author of more than 120 scientific communications (of which more than 50 in International Congresses).
• Author of more than 20 articles published, most in International journals
• Associate investigator of multiple multicentre clinical trials and national and international registries
• Assistant of the course of Introduction to the Clinic (3rd year, Faculty of Medicine of Lisbon).
• Professor and responsible for the module of Cardiology Emergencies of the Graduate Course in Emergency and Hospital Emergency, College of Postgraduate Studies of the School of Health of the Atlantic University
• Co-Editor of the Risk Factors Journal of the Portuguese Society of Cardiology (2014-2017)
• Reviewer of several National and International medical journals 2006-2007 - Director and Technical Officer of "Choque Pr'a Vida" (first automatic external defibrillation project in Portugal)
• Basic Life Support Instructor, External Automatic…

Prof Divaka Perera is a Professor of Interventional Cardiology in the School of Cardiovascular Medicine & Sciences and an Honorary Cardiologist at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital. He graduated in medicine from Cambridge University, undertook cardiology specialist training in London and Sussex and received a Clinical Senior Lectureship Award from the Higher Education Funding Council for England in 2008. In 2013, he received the BCS Michael Davies Early Career Award for contribution to cardiovascular science. 

He runs a translational research programme into the mechanisms and consequences of reduced blood supply to the heart muscle in chronic coronary artery disease, acute myocardial infarction and valve disease. He is also involved in designing and performing multicentre clinical trials to evaluate novel treatments for patients with ischaemic heart disease. He is the chief investigator of the NIHR-funded UK multi-centre randomised control trial REVIVED, which seeks to…

Prof Andrew Sharp is a Professor of Cardiology at the University College Dublin and The Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Dublin, IE. Andrew qualified from Edinburgh Medical School in 1998. He was appointed as a Consultant Cardiologist at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital in 2011 and Honorary Associate Professor by the University of Exeter in 2018 before moving to the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff in the summer of 2019.

Andrew conducted his early training at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, before moving to London for his senior clinical training, completing the prestigious Milan-Imperial Interventional Cardiology Fellowship programme. Dr Sharp was awarded an MD postgraduate research degree from the University of Edinburgh for his work on the hypertensive heart and his current research interests include device-based treatments for hypertension, pulmonary embolism, intracoronary imaging and coronary physiology.

Andrew's specialist interests include the…

Prof Eric Van Belle is head of Interventional Cardiology at Lille University Hospital, Lille, FR.