Dr Joseph Davar

Dr. Davar is a Consultant Cardiologist with more than 30 years of experience in Cardiology and an honorary Associate Professor. He specializes in the non-invasive diagnosis and assessment of Coronary Artery Disease (CAD), Valvular Heart Disease, Heart Failure, Hypertension, and Cardiomyopathies, including chemotherapy-induced cardiomyopathies. He has organized and led various cardiac services, including the Cardiac Investigations Unit, Heart Failure Service, Chemotherapy Induced Heart Failure, Hypertension, and Valve Heart Disease Services, as well as Carcinoid Heart Disease Services and Cardiac CT Service. His earlier training was undertaken in Tbilisi and Moscow, where he was awarded the A.L Myasnikov Prize (1984) of the Academy of Medical Sciences of USSR for his book "Mitral Valve Prolapse." His book "Atlas in Echocardiography" (1988) was shortlisted for the State Prize. He then completed his specialist training at The Brompton. Dr. Davar is highly active in clinical research and teaching, with interests in Non-Invasive Diagnosis & Management of Coronary Artery Disease, Echocardiography (with many tens of thousands of procedures done), Stress Echocardiography (up to 25,000 procedures done), and CT Coronary Angiography (a few thousand procedures done). He has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals and regularly lectures at both national and international levels. He led the development of the first International Guidelines in Carcinoid Heart Disease (published in JACC 2017). He was awarded a research grant by the British Heart Foundation and elected an International Fellow of the American College of Cardiology in 2011.