Professor Shakeel Qureshi

Consultant Paediatric Cardiologist and Professor of Paediatric Cardiology at the Evelina Children’s Hospital, Guy’s & St Thomas’s Foundation Trust, and King’s College, London.  (Mar 1988 to present) Head of Service for Paediatric Cardiology between 2004 and 2012 and Director of Cardiac Catheterisation Laboratory between 1999 and 2012. MBCHB degree from the University of Manchester in 1976, and passed Membership of Royal College of Physicians of London in 1979.   Completed training in Paediatric Cardiology at Harefield Hospital, Guy’s Hospital and Royal Liverpool Children’s Hospital.   Appointed as a Consultant Paediatric Cardiologist at Liverpool in 1987 and then at Guy’s Hospital in 1988.   Spent a period of 2 years (between 1983 and 1985) at Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology, Rawalpindi, Pakistan setting up the Department of Paediatric Cardiology.   Elected Fellow of Royal College of Physicians in 1995 and Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health in 1997.   Member of British Congenital Cardiac Association (BCCA), of which was a Founder Secretary, British Cardiac Society (BCS), British Medical Association (BMA), Association for European Paediatric and Congenital Cardiology (AEPC) and Society of Cardiac Angiography and Interventions (SCAI).   Scientific Secretary of AEPC between 2003 and 2007, its President-elect in 2009 and 2010 and President between 2010 and 2013.   Also President-elect of BCCA between 2007 and 2009 and its President between 2009 and 2012. Published over 250 papers, review articles and book chapters Co-editor of textbook (2nd edition under preparation) Awarded one of the highest civilian awards by the Government of Pakistan for services to Medicine in 2004.   In 2004, was given the PICS Outstanding Achievement Award. Knighted in Queen’s New Year Honours List 1 January, 2022.

Interventional techniques in congenital heart disease in children and adults Co-inventor of Tyshak balloon and have 2 patents for catheters and devices.   Was the subject of a BBC documentary, QED, in 1992 for an innovative interventional procedure