Dr Iqbal Malik

Background

Dr Iqbal Malik attended Peterhouse College, Cambridge University and then Guy’s Hospital, London. He qualified in 1991. After junior jobs in London, he joined the training scheme in cardiology in west London.

Dr Malik continued with his PhD thesis at Hammersmith Hospital in vascular biology before being appointed a consultant in 2003. He has been divisional director for clinical governance, catheter laboratory director, and currently is the lead for structural heart disease. This involves the transcatheter aortic valve (TAVI), septal defect (atrial septal defect and patent foramen ovale) programmes and para-valvular leak programmes.

Expertise

Interventional cardiology, general adult cardiology, ischaemic heart disease, coronary angioplasty and stenting, defect closure, transradial coronary angioplasty, ischaemic heart disease in diabetes

Research & publications

Dr Malik has a research interest in the above and also left atrial appendage closure. He also leads the Imperial Cardiovascular Simulation Training (iCAST) programme, with world-class immersive behavioural simulation to aid patient safety. He is the representative for Imperial at the Pan-London Heart Attack Centre Group and the London Cardiology Steering Group.

Trials:

Coronary physiology ORBITA trial: Lancet 2017 

Simulation: BMJ simulation 2017 

TAVI:TCT 2017

PFO Closure: TCT 2017