Dr Ricardo Petraco is a Consultant Cardiologist at Imperial College NHS Trust and Buckinghamshire NHS Trust as well as a Senior Clinical Research Fellow at Imperial College London. He is internationally recognized as a leading clinician and researcher in the field of coronary artery disease and physiology. Dr Petraco completed his higher specialist cardiology training at leading university hospitals in London, including the Royal Brompton, St Mary’s and Hammersmith Hospitals.
His clinical work involves general cardiology with a focus on coronary interventions (stenting) and treatment of angina and heart attacks. As a researcher, he is interested in developing new diagnostic methods to improve the reliability and safety of coronary procedures as well as to improve patient experience during interventions.
Dr Petraco’s combined work as a leading cardiologist and researcher allows for state-of-the-art diagnostic methods to be offered to patients and enables innovative technologies in coronary physiology and imaging to be rapidly implemented into clinical practice.
Dr Petraco sees his private patients at One Heart Clinic in Harley Street.
Languages spoken:
English and Portuguese
Qualifications: MD, MCRP, PhD
Dr Ricardo Petraco’s research work can be found here: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/r.petraco