Understanding Hypertension and the Role of Blood Pressure Clinics
- By One Heart Clinic
- March 12, 2025
Dr Nikhil Joshi’s primary clinical cardiology training was in Edinburgh, where he undertook a highly successful PhD, followed by training in interventional and general cardiology. Subsequently, he undertook advanced interventional coronary and TAVI fellowship in Vancouver Island, Canada as a British Interventional Society Fellow.
His research in vulnerable plaques has led to several presentations, publications and grants, which earned him an invite to Buckingham Palace for The Queen's Anniversary Prize for Research and Higher Education. During these years, he has been recipient of several awards including the Josephine Lansdell Award for research in heart disease. He has presented his research at the highly prestigious European Society of Cardiology Hotline sessions in Barcelona and was chosen as the Thomas J. Linnemeier Spirit of Interventional Cardiology Young Investigator Finalist at TCT in 2016 Denver, USA. He was also a finalist at the Young Investigator Awards at the American College of Cardiology Scientific Sessions, San Francisco and Advanced Coronary Intervention - BCIS, and the BCS in London.
His current post at the Bristol Heart Institute involves high procedural volume and he currently undertakes over 250 percutaneous coronary interventions and over 100 transcatheter aortic valve implantations annually. He believes in empowering patients with current clinical evidence about their condition, so that they can make a well-informed decisions about the treatment options available to them.
He is also active academically as honorary senior lecture at the University of Bristol and was recently awarded the highly competitive Clinical Academic Research Partnership Award by the Medical Research Council, looking at use of artificial intelligence and machine learning to assess outcomes in patients with heart disease.
