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Current NHS consultant posts held
Dr Kirk currently works at The Lister Hospital in Stevenage as a consultant cardiologist. He regularly performs coronary angiography, transthoracic echocardiography, transoesophageal echocardiography and other advanced imaging modality.
He cares for cardiology patients as in-patients and within the out-patient setting.
Dr Kirk also works as an honorary consultant at the Royal Brompton Hospital in advanced imaging techniques.
Research interests
NIH (National Institute of Health, America) funded fellowship at the Royal Brompton Hospital, Imperial College contributing to an MD under the supervision of Professor Dudley Pennell, being awarded a doctorate of medicine in advance imaging.
Personal interests
Dr Kirk enjoys playing squash and running.
Awards received
British Society of Echocardiography Accreditation.
Level 2 Accreditation in Cardiac CT
Doctorate of Medicine for research into advanced cardiac imaging.
Young Investigator of the Year, USA.
Publications
Circulation Cardiac T2* Magnetic Resonance for Prediction of Cardiac Complications in Thalassemia Major.
Circulation On T2* Magnetic Resonance and Cardiac Iron.
EHJ. Relation of myocardial T2* to right ventricular function in thalassaemia major.
EHJ. Coronary anomalies in Klippel-Trenaunay-Weber syndrome
JMRI. International Reproducibility of Single Breath-hold T2* Magnetic Resonance
JMRI. Myocardial T2* is not Affected by Ageing, Myocardial Fibrosis, or Impaired Left Ventricular Function.
JCMR. Low Prevalence of Fibrosis in Thalassemia Major Assessed by Late Gadolinium Enhancement Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance.
JCMR. Multi-center transferability of a breath-hold T2 technique for myocardial iron assessment
Magn Reson Med. Myocardial T(*)2 measurement in iron-overloaded thalassemia
BrJHospMed. Fraud and deceit in medical research.
JMRI. A Black Blood T2* Technique for Myocardial Iron Measurement
JCMR. Right ventricular volumes and function in thalassemia major patients in the absence of myocardial iron overload.
QJM. Coronary-pulmonary artery fistula:value of 64-MDCT imaging.
Haematology today. MR assessment of cardiac iron and function.
Haematology today. Chelation and cardiac iron.
EHA Holland. Fibrosis in Cardiac Siderosis
ESC Sweden. Prevalence of fibrosis in thalassemia major
Euro CMR Italy. Prevalence of fibrosis in thalassemia
SCMR USA. Cardiac T2* magnetic resonance for prediction of cardiac complications in thalassemia major.
SCMR USA. Incidence of cardiac complications in patients with cardiac siderosis
NHLI London. Cardiac complications in thalassaemia patients.
BSCMR Incidence of Cardiac Complications in Patients with Thalassaemia Major.
ASH USA. Myocardial T2* is not Affected by the Structural Effects of Myocardial Fibrosis, Ageing or Impaired Left Ventricular Function.
ASH USA. Validation of T2* technique in ex-vivo myocardial tissue.
ASH USA. Inter-Site Validation of a Single Breath Hold T2* MR Technique for Heart and Liver Iron Measurement
Courses offered to GPs
Non-invasive imaging to assess chest pain
