Dr Ramesh de Silva
Hospital
Bedford Hospital
Job Title
Consultant Interventional Cardiologist
Qualifications
MB ChB MD FRCP
Other Roles
Lead for interventional cardiology research
Areas of Special Interest
Interventional Cardiology (including angioplasty, stenting and intra-vascular imaging), General Cardiology
Education and Training
MB ChB University of Leeds, Leeds. 1995, MRCP Royal College of Physicians, London. 1998, MD University of Hull, Hull. 2008, FRCP Royal College of Physicians, London. 2014
Experience
Dr Ramesh de Silva graduated in 1995 from the University of Leeds. He completed a period of research in cardiac imaging and heart failure and was awarded a Doctorate of Medicine whilst in Yorkshire. His speciality training in Cardiology was at Papworth hospital in Cambridge before undertaking further training in coronary intervention was obtained at the Lenox Hill Hospital in New York, USA.
Research
Intra-vascular imaging using optical coherence tomography and intra-vascular ultrasound, the vulnerable plaque, acute coronary syndromes