Dr Francis Murgatroyd is a consultant cardiologist at King's College Hospital in London, specializing exclusively in the treatment of heart rhythm disorders. He was appointed in 2000 as a Consultant Cardiologist at Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, before moving to King's in 2004.

Dr Murgatroyd completed his first degree at Cambridge, qualifying medically from Oxford University in 1985. He trained in cardiology at St George's Hospital in London, and in Leicester, completing a senior fellowship at the University of Western Ontario. His clinical and research interests include all aspects of arrhythmia treatment, including catheter ablation, pacemaker and defibrillator therapy.

• Pacemakers
• Defibrillators
• Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy
• Cardiac electrophysiology
• Ablation
• Catheter ablation

• Cardiac arrhythmias
• Atrial flutter
• Atrial fibrillation
• Supraventricular tachycardia
• Ventricular tachycardia
• Ventricular fibrillation
• Sudden cardiac death