Professor Tom Lumbers

Professor Tom Lumbers is an Honorary Consultant Cardiologist at UCLH and Barts Health NHS Trusts, Professorial Research Fellow at the UCL Institute of Health Informatics, and a Visiting Scientist at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.

He is the Principal Investigator for the HERMES Consortium, a global collaboration focused on heart failure and dilated cardiomyopathy genetics, and Co-Director of the Rare Disease Research UK Cardiovascular Initiative. His research focuses on understanding the genetic basis of cardiomyopathy and heart failure to uncover novel disease mechanisms and advance diagnosis and treatment. He is also interested in using health record systems to support quality improvement, translational research, and clinical trials.