CON 971 - Consultant Cardiologist (TAVI)

Applications are invited for this this new post within the Cardiology Department with a focus on transcatheter valve intervention at the Leeds General Infirmary.

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (LTHT) is one of the leading interventional cardiology units in the United Kingdom, with a national & international profile for service, innovation, and research. LTHT serves a regional population of 2.8 million in West Yorkshire and performs over 1100 primary PCI procedures annually, making it the highest volume PPCI centre in the UK. In total, more than 2300 PCI procedures are carried out annually, including complex PCI and CTO procedures. The transcatheter valve intervention service is internationally renowned.

Over 600 TAVI procedures are performed annually, the highest volume in the UK. We are the commissioned regional centre for mitral transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (TEER). Other percutaneous structural interventions performed include mitral commissurotomy; tricuspid TEER; transcatheter mitral and tricuspid valve replacement; and paravalvular leak closure. Leeds is at the forefront of innovation, research, and education in transcatheter valve intervention. There are currently 11 Leeds-based interventional cardiology consultants, 4 of whom provide the transcatheter valve service with the support of 2 Structural Fellows, 5 Valve Nurse Specialists, and 3 Structural Research Nurses. Visiting coronary interventionists also contribute to the PPCI on-call rota.