DrAbdul-Majeed Salmasi
Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer
National Heart & Lung Institute - Faculty of Medicine
- Honorary Clinical Senior LecturerNational Heart & Lung Institute - Faculty of Medicine
- Central Middlesex Hospital, Central Middlesex Hospital, United Kingdom
BIO
Dr Salmasi is a Clinical Senior Lecturer at the National Heart and Lung Institute. He is a Consultant Cardiologist at London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust. He is a senior member of many committees of the MRCP exam in the Federation of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the UK and the Royal college of Physicians.
In 1979 he obtained his Ph.D. in Medicine from St. Mary's Hospital Medical School (currently Imperial College London) and continued his training in cardiology at St. Mary's Hospital, London. His interest in echocardiography and Doppler ultrasound dates back to 1980. In 1982 he published the first report on the use of Doppler ultrasound during exercise to characterise left ventricular function. Together with Professor Merril Spencer of Seattle, he was the co-founder of the International Cardiac Doppler Society in 1983 and became its first vice-president. He has edited four postgraduate text books in Cardiology and till now published 61 original articles in the cardiovascular field. He also published a few original articles on the usefulness of isometric exercise to study diastolic left ventricular function in patients with coronary artery disease, diabetics and hyperlipidaemics. He introduced the use of isometric exercise to study left ventricular function by Doppler ultrasound during echocardiography.
He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (London), Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology, Fellow of the American College of Cardiology, Fellow of the British and Irish Hypertension Society and a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health at the Royal College of Physicians of London.
His main research interest is left ventricular hypertrophy and the relation between hypertension and glucose intolerance, arterial pulse velocity and compliance, atrial fibrillation and cardiovascular changes in auto-immune diseases and cardiovascular diseases in women.
In 1979 he obtained his Ph.D. in Medicine from St. Mary's Hospital Medical School (currently Imperial College London) and continued his training in cardiology at St. Mary's Hospital, London. His interest in echocardiography and Doppler ultrasound dates back to 1980. In 1982 he published the first report on the use of Doppler ultrasound during exercise to characterise left ventricular function. Together with Professor Merril Spencer of Seattle, he was the co-founder of the International Cardiac Doppler Society in 1983 and became its first vice-president. He has edited four postgraduate text books in Cardiology and till now published 61 original articles in the cardiovascular field. He also published a few original articles on the usefulness of isometric exercise to study diastolic left ventricular function in patients with coronary artery disease, diabetics and hyperlipidaemics. He introduced the use of isometric exercise to study left ventricular function by Doppler ultrasound during echocardiography.
He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (London), Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology, Fellow of the American College of Cardiology, Fellow of the British and Irish Hypertension Society and a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health at the Royal College of Physicians of London.
His main research interest is left ventricular hypertrophy and the relation between hypertension and glucose intolerance, arterial pulse velocity and compliance, atrial fibrillation and cardiovascular changes in auto-immune diseases and cardiovascular diseases in women.
FACULTY
- Faculty of Medicine
POSITION NAME
- Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer