Specialist
Professor Jamil Mayet
MBChB MD MBA FESC FACC FRCP
Specialty: General Cardiology
Sub Specialty: Cardiac Imaging
NHS Hospital Positions
- Consultant Cardiologist, St Mary’s and Hammersmith Hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Professor of Cardiology, International Centre for Circulatory Health, Imperial College London
- Clinical Lead and Consultant Cardiologist, Department of Cardiology, Queen Mary’s Hospital, Roehampton
Clinical Interests:
Professor Mayet’s clinical interests are in the assessment of chest pain, shortness of breath, the cardiovascular evaluation of patients with high blood pressure, the assessment of the heart in pregnancy and the assessment of the heart in athletes.
Professor Mayet has a specialist interest in cardiac imaging and in particular echocardiography. He has been clinical lead in echocardiography at St Mary’s Hospital since 2000 and has lead the development of several highly specialised echocardiographic services. These include stress echocardiography, dyssynchrony assessment, transoesophageal echocardiography, 3D echocardiography and contrast echocardiography.
Education and Training:
Professor Mayet graduated in medicine at the University of Dundee in 1989. He completed a research fellowship in Cardiovascular Medicine at St Mary’s Hospital, Imperial College London in 1994 and was awarded an MBA at the Edinburgh Business School in 1997. He trained in Clinical Cardiology at St Mary’s Hospital and The Royal Brompton Hospital between 1994 and 2000.
Consultant Appointments:
Professor Mayet was appointed Consultant Cardiologist at St Mary’s Hospital and Honorary Senior Lecturer at Imperial College in 2000. Following the merger of St Mary’s, Hammersmith and Charing Cross Hospitals with Imperial College he was appointed Chief of Service for Cardiovascular Medicine for Imperial College NHS Trust in 2008. He was promoted to Professor of Cardiology at Imperial College in 2011.
Research interests:
Professor Mayet’s research interests are in the clinical development of new technologies for assessing and treating the heart and arteries and understanding how we can fine-tune current treatments to improve outcomes.
Specifically he has interests in the physiology of coronary flow and blood pressure as well as the factors associated with the development of atherosclerosis. He has a longstanding interest in cardiac structural and functional variations in health and disease, particularly in hypertension and athletic training.
He also has an interest in ethnic variations in cardiovascular disease. He is a member of the Cardiovascular Population Sciences team at Imperial College, providing cardiovascular imaging expertise to the design of large studies, including multi-centre collaborations.
Professor Mayet has published over 135 peer-reviewed papers, many in major cardiovascular journals. He been invited to lecture nationally and internationally in the fields of echocardiography, hypertension, diastolic dysfunction, left ventricular hypertrophy, heart failure, coronary and arterial physiology and coronary artery disease.
He is a founding member of the International Centre for Circulatory Health (ICCH), a Centre of Excellence on the St Mary’s Hospital Campus. The mission of ICCH is to advance standards of care in prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease to reduce the expected increase in disease burden around the world.
National Roles:
Professor Mayet sat on the Council of the British Society of Echocardiography and was Chair of its Accreditation Committee until 2008. He is Training Programme Director of the North West Thames Cardiology Training Programme. He has been a member of the Royal Society of Medicine, Cardiology Section Council. He was a British Cardiac Society Reviewer of the European Society Cardiology Guideline on Stable Angina and British Cardiac Society Expert Advisor to the NICE Guideline Group assessing the Management of Chest Pain in 2007. He sat on the Royal College of Physicians Committee on Cardiology 1999-2006, was a member of the expert group reviewing the NCEPOD Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Study 2003-5 and was the Royal College of Physicians / British Cardiac Society representative on National Heart Forum between 2003-6.