Dr Amanda Varnava is a Consultant Cardiologist, and is Lead for the Inherited Cardiac Conditions service at Imperial College Healthcare Trust. She has been the Head of Service for Cardiology since 2020 and is now the Clinical Director for Cardiology and Cardiothoracic surgery at Imperial.

Dr Varnava undertook her medical training at Oxford University and St Bartholomew’s Hospital and completed with Honours. She went on to train in cardiology at The Royal Brompton Hospital & St George's Hospital, where she undertook an MRC research fellowship. She is a consultant cardiologist and honorary senior lecturer at Imperial College.

Dr Varnava established the ICC service at Imperial in 2008, which now sees over 2000 adult and paediatric patients a year, alongside this she has developed a database of over 5000 patients with cardiomyopathies, channelopathies, cardiac disease in neuromuscular conditions, aortopathies and their screened relatives.

She also has a specialist interest in sports cardiology, and has been on the Football Association expert advisory panel since for over 10 years and is cardiologist to many premiership football teams including Arsenal and Watford football clubs. She has screened over 500 professional male and female athletes.

Dr Varnava is the Trust lead for cardiac sarcoid disease and runs a multi-disciplinary service. Her research interests are in the non-invasive risk stratification of the sudden death syndromes, especially Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and Brugada syndrome. She is ex-council member for the Association of Inherited Cardiac Conditions, and expert advisor to Cardiomyopathy UK and Dan’s Trust. She regularly lectures at international meetings and has published over 50 peer reviewed papers.

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