Dr Sujay Chandran is a Consultant Interventional Cardiologist practicing at Kingston and St Thomas’ Hospitals. Prior to this, he was a Consultant Interventional Cardiologist for five years at Worthing and the Royal Sussex County Hospitals. He is trained in all aspects of adult cardiology with a special interest in complex coronary intervention, intravascular imaging and structural heart disease.

Dr Chandran was educated at Westminster School and subsequently qualified as a doctor from St George's Hospital Medical School, London, in 2006. He was awarded an intercalated BSc for original genetics research and a merit prize in clinical medicine during his medical training. He entered specialist training in cardiology, where he rotated through a series of prestigious posts in London and on the South Coast. He was successfully awarded a Doctorate of Medicine (MD Res) in recognition of his research at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital. He subsequently completed subspecialty training in coronary intervention at the Royal Sussex County and St Thomas' hospitals.

After completing his training, Dr Chandran was offered an extremely prestigious, fully-funded interventional fellowship at McMaster University, Canada. During this fellowship, he was trained specifically in chronic total occlusions and percutaneous mitral valve intervention (mitraclip).

Dr Chandran treat patients with a variety of symptoms, including chest pain, hypertension, hyperlipidaemia palpitations, breathlessness and blackouts. He organises and performs numerous investigations including ECGs, ambulatory ECG monitoring, echocardiograms, cardiac CT and cardiac MRI as required.

As an interventional cardiologist, he has performed well over 1,500 percutaneous coronary interventions. He undertakes detailed intracoronary imaging (optical coherence tomography and intravascular ultrasound) and physiological assessments (pressure wire) to guide his decision making and has experience and dedicated training in complex percutaneous coronary interventions including chronic total occlusions, bifurcations and rotational atherectomy. In addition, he has expertise in optical coherence tomography (OCT) from his post-doctoral research which involved investigating the molecular mechanisms contributing to patients having acute heart attacks.

Dr Chandran is actively involved in numerous research projects both locally and internationally. He is an investigator for several cardiovascular research trials. Following his fellowship, he has strong links and ongoing projects with McMaster University, a centre world-famous for large cardiovascular trials and landmark publications. To date, he has presented his research internationally, published in high impact journals and written book chapters.

He is passionate about medical education and is an educational and clinical supervisor to a range of junior doctors. He also provides educational talks to colleagues and local GPs.