Professor Clive Handler
Qualifications
BSc, MB BS, MRCS, LRCP, MD, FRCP, FESC, FACC
GMC number: 2360144
Specialties
Cardiology
- Overview
About
Professor Clive Handler is an experienced cardiologist who qualified from Guy’s Hospital Medical School where he was awarded an MRC Fellowship to do an intercalated Honours BSc degree in pharmacology and trained in cardiology and general medicine at the major London teaching hospitals and postgraduate teaching hospitals, and in the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA.
He was awarded an MRC Fellowship to lead the European Coronary Artery Surgery Study at Guy’s Hospital and this led to the award of his MD thesis from the University of London.
He is the author of numerous scientific papers, has lectured to medical and lay audiences around the world, and is the author or editor of 13 textbooks on cardiology, translational medicine and pulmonary hypertension, and books for patients. He is a consultant and adviser to NICE.
He sees patients with all cardiac conditions causing:
- Shortness of breath
- Chest pain
- Palpitation
- Giddy turns and loss of consciousness
- Valve problems
- Weight loss and cardiac prevention.
Special interests
- Cardiovascular prevention
- Pulmonary hypertension
- Arterial hypertension
- Breathlessness
- Heart failure
- Heart attacks
- Atrial fibrillation
- Chest pain.
Locations Professor Clive Handler works with
Related experience
Research
- Coronary heart disease, risk stratification after heart attacks, exercise testing, pulmonary hypertension
Memberships
- British Cardiovascular Society Fellow
- Royal College of Physicians Fellow
- European Society of Cardiology Fellow
- American College of Cardiology Member
- National Pulmonary Hypertension Physicians Group Freeman of the City of London
Other posts held
- Consultant Cardiologist, Royal Free Hospital
- Honorary Clinical Professor, Division of Medicine, UCL
- Honorary Consultant Cardiologist, Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital