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- By One Heart Clinic
- September 16, 2026
Subspecialty: Heart Muscle Disease/Cardiomyopathy, Cardiac Imaging, Heart Failure, Preventative Cardiology
Dr Daniel Hammersley is a Consultant Cardiologist with over 15 years experience, and holds a post at King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. He qualified from Oxford University and Imperial College with seven distinctions and undertook a sub internship at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. He trained in cardiology at prestigious institutions in London including The Royal Brompton Hospital, Harefield Hospital, and King’s College Hospital.
Dr Hammersley has extensive experience in general cardiology and cardiovascular risk assessment. He treats patients with a broad range of cardiovascular issues, including shortness of breath, palpitations, chest pain, collapses, high blood pressure and raised cholesterol. His specialist interests include cardiomyopathy, heart failure, cardiac MRI, cardiovascular genetics and preventative cardiology.
Clinically, Daniel is Service Lead for Inherited Cardiac Conditions at King’s College Hospital. He also has a weekly Cardiac MRI list and is part of the KCH Heart Failure team. He co-leads a monthly regional joint Cardiology-Neurology clinic for patients with cardiac manifestations of inherited neuromuscular diseases. His specialist interests are in the management of patients with cardiomyopathies and their families and cardiac genetics. He also has an interest in ethnic differences in cardiac phenotype, genetic architecture and clinical outcomes among patients with cardiomyopathies.
Daniel is a member of the ESC Working Group for Myocardial and Pericardial Disease, the ESC Council for Cardiovascular Genomics, the Association for Inherited Cardiac Conditions, the British Society of Heart Failure, the British Society for CMR and the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging.
Dr Hammersley is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at King’s College London for medical students. Dr Hammersley has a strong commitment to medical education and leads an undergraduate module on ‘Preventative Medicine’ at King’s College London.
He was previously awarded a PhD in dilated cardiomyopathy from the Genetics and Imaging Section of the National Heart & Lung Institute of Imperial College. He has co-authored over 50 peer-reviewed publications (including JACC, European Heart Journal & European Journal of Heart Failure) and is regularly invited to speak at national and international conferences.
