Dr Iqbal Malik MBBCh MA FRCP PhD
Specialty: Cardiology and General Medicine
Sub-Specialty: Interventional Cardiology
NHS Hospital Positions:
- National Clinical Lead for Web Transfer Systems
- Consultant Cardiologist and Honorary Senior Lecturer
- International Centre for Circulatory Health
- St Mary’s and Hammersmith Hospital
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Clinical Interests:
Dr Malik has interests in general cardiology including hypertension, angina and valve disease. In addition he is interested in stroke prevention, including the use of interventional treatments such as hole in the heart closure and carotid artery stenting. He is a specialist in complex coronary treatments such as balloon angioplasty and stenting. Since 2003, he has lead the primary angioplasty (PPCI) team setting up a world class acute heart attack treatment (HAT) centre at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust to patients in West London and beyond.
Education and Training:
Dr Malik graduated from Cambridge University in 1991. His science training was in Cambridge and with clinical training at Guys Hospital. After qualification, he joined the Royal London Hospital SHO rotation. He was awarded MRCP in 1994.
He then trained in cardiology and general medicine on the Royal Postgraduate Medical School rotation at the Hammersmith Hospital, St. Mary’s Hospital and other hospitals in West London.
In 1997, he took a three year sabbatical to complete his PhD at Imperial College, London.
He took sabbaticals in Germany and Italy to complete his interventional cardiology training. He is accredited in both cardiology and general medicine.
Consultant Appointments:
Dr Malik was appointed Consultant Cardiologist at St Mary’s Hospital and Honorary Senior Lecturer at Imperial College in 2003 and following the merger of St Mary’s, Hammersmith and Charing Cross Hospitals with Imperial College is now working at both St. Marys and Hammersmith sites within Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.
Research:
His current research is focused on interventional cardiology: the role of hole in the heart closure in Migraine and stroke, comparison of carotid artery stenting and surgery to prevent stroke and the prevention of angina and heart attacks using coronary angioplasty and surgery. He is on the steering committee for major international clinical trials in these fields.
He has an interest in putting patient safety first. He has run multiple audit projects and runs major clinical governance projects at Imperial College Healthcare NHS trust.
He has also developed an electronic patient transfer system which has been taken up widely in London and beyond to help patient journey between hospitals.
Dr Malik trains undergraduate medical students and post graduate doctors to consultant level both from the UK and overseas.
National Roles:
Web Based transfer systems for “hot patients”: This is an area of active clinical research. He has recently become the National Clinical Lead in this area.
Dr Malik runs an annual Stroke Meeting at the Royal College of Physicians.
Commissioning Editor for HEART, an international journal in the field of Cardiology.
Chairman of the Cardiac Catheter Laboratory Practitioner Project training the next generation of health workers in the cardiac catheter laboratories. He has helped design a national core dataset for web-based interhospital transfer systems. Is is on the British Heart Foundation Project Board to develop a multiskilled cardiac catheter laboratory work force.
He is an invited lecturer within the NHS and international frameworks of healthcare. He is an examiner at Imperial College London. He also teaches General Practitioners on the British Medical Journal (BMJ) Masterclasses in Cardiology.