Perry Elliott
Reader in Inherited Cardiac Disease; Honorary Consultant Cardiologist, The Heart Hospital, London

Dr. Elliott is a Reader in Inherited Cardiovascular Disease at The Heart Hospital, University College London, and The Institute of Child Health, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London.

Dr Elliott studied Medicine at St. Thomas’s Hospital Medical School, London. After qualifying in 1987 he trained in General Medicine, gaining membership of the Royal College of Physicians in 1991. He completed his general cardiology training at St. George’s Hospital Medical School, London.

Over the past 17 years Dr Elliott has established an international reputation in the field of heart muscle disease, authoring more than 200 peer reviewed papers on the subject. He is Chairman of the European Society of Cardiology Working Group on Myocardial and Pericardial Diseases and Vice-President of the Cardiomyopathy Association. He is a member of the British Cardiac Society, and was elected as a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology in 2001 and the European Society of Cardiology in 2005. Dr Elliott chairs The National Coroner/Pathologist sub-group of the National service framework implementation board and is chair and co-founder of the UK Cardiac Pathology Network. In 2009, he was appointed as Deputy Editor of The Heart Journal.