Professor Neil Ruparelia
Cardiologist
BSc MB BS MSc DPhil MRCP FESC
Specialises in
I am a Consultant Cardiologist working between Berkshire and London, specialising in all areas of general cardiology with a sub-specialty interest in coronary and structural heart intervention.
I was awarded my medical degree from University College London in 2004 and an intercalated degree (BSc) in Medical Law receiving numerous prizes. I completed specialist training in cardiology in Oxford with specialist interventional fellowships at the Hammersmith Hospital, London and a year in Milan, Italy at the world-famous San Raffaele Scientific Institute during which time I was awarded an MSc in interventional cardiology.
I was awarded a DPhil (PhD) from Balliol College, University of Oxford funded by a British Heart Foundation Clinical Research Fellowship. During this time, I was also the recipient of a British Heart Foundation travel fellowship to the Broad Institute (MIT) and Harvard Medical School (Boston, USA).
I was appointed Visiting Professor at the University of Reading in January 2020. I have also been awarded Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP) in 2020.
In 2017 I was awarded Fellowship of the European Society of Cardiology (FESC) and appointed Consultant Cardiologist between the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading and the Hammersmith Hospital, London and in 2018 appointed Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at Imperial College London.
I am the winner of numerous prizes including the President’s Gold Medal in cardiology from the Royal Society of Medicine and investigator prizes from the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and American Heart Association (AHA).
I am an author of over 100 publications including original papers, editorials, review articles and book chapters and am regularly invited to speak at both national and international conferences and act as a reviewer for a number of international medical journals.
Treatment information
Some of the principal treatments carried out by Professor Neil Ruparelia at Spire include:
Cardiology
- Contrast echocardiogram
- Electrocardiogram (ECG)
Other treatments
- Coronary intervention – stent implantation
- Chronic total occlusion (CTO) PCI
- Structural heart disease – transcatheter aortic valve intervention (TAVI), patent foramen ovale (PFO) closure
- Atrial septal defect (ASD) closure
- Echocardiography (transthoracic and transoesophageal)
- Permanent pacemaker implantation
- Heart failure
- Cardiovascular risk management
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Additional information
Clinical interests
Qualification and professional memberships
BSc / University College London / 2004
Medicine with Medical Law
Intercalated degree (BSc) in medical law.
MSc / San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy / 2009
Interventional cardiology
DPhil (PhD) / Balliol College, University of Oxford / 2007
Cardiology
Professional memberships
Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology
Research and publications
Basic science: innate immune response to ischaemia.
Translational research: the applicability of experimental models to human disease.
Clinical research: clinical trials including first-in-man studies and evaluation of novel therapies.
Research supervisor.
Current NHS posts
Consultant Cardiologist – Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading, UK.
Consultant Cardiologist – Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK.
Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer, Imperial College, London, UK.
Contact information
| Private secretary | Louise Hussain |
| Private secretary telephone | 07495618753 |
| Private secretary fax | 01189195094 |
| Private secretary email | louise.medicalsecretarydirect@gmail.com |