Overview:  Consultant Cardiologist, Head of Education &  Dr Robin Ray is a Consultant Cardiologist at St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation  Trust in London with interests in education, research and clinical cardiology with a focus in  Heart Failure and cardiac imaging. He is an Honorary Senior Lecturer and the co-director of  the MSc heart failure programme.  

Biography:  Dr Ray qualified from Oxford University and Guy’s, King’s and St Thomas’ School of  Medicine. He received a BHF scholar award and a BHF clinical Ph.D. studentship and completed a Ph.D. at King’s College Hospital, London in endothelial function, blood pressure  and heart failure. He trained on the South East London Cardiology rotation and completed a  cardiac imaging fellowship at the Brompton Hospital. He joined St George’s Hospital as a  consultant in heart failure and cardiac imaging in 2015. 

Dr. Ray is passionate about education which has been a core part of his portfolio, including a  number of local, national, and international roles in both undergraduate and postgraduate medical education. He has sat on the Royal College of Physicians Education committee,  British cardiac society education committee, and was appointed as a member of the  Educational Committee of the European Heart Failure Association in 2017. He has also organized communication skills courses and clinical MRCP PACES courses for the training of junior doctors in London over a number of years (LondonPACES). These courses have received excellent positive feedback and have trained thousands of doctors who have gone on to pass MRCP PACES.