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Professor Reza Razavi

Vice President (Research)

  • Director of Research at King’s Health Partners

Research interests

  • Biomedical and life sciences
  • Imaging sciences

Biography

Professor Reza Razavi is the Professor of Paediatric cardiovascular Science at KCL and an Honorary Consultant Paediatric Cardiologist at GSTT. He was the Vice President (Research) at King's College London (March 2017- Jan 2023) and the Director of Research at King’s Health Partners (June 2015 - Sept 2020). He was also the Director of the King’s Wellcome Trust EPSRC Centre For Medical Engineering (until May 2021) and The London AI Centre for Value Based Healthcare (until March 2024).

 

Professor Razavi qualified in Medicine at St. Bartholomew’s Medical School in 1988. He later trained in Paediatrics and Paediatric Cardiology at Guys and started a career in research at KCL.

 

Prior to becoming Vice President (Research), Professor Razavi held the post of Head of Division of Imaging Sciences and Biomedical Engineering (Jan 2007 - March 2017) and Assistant Principal (Research & Innovation) (July 2015 - March 2017).

 

Research Focus

The main focus of Professor Reza Razavi’s research is imaging and biomedical engineering related to cardiovascular disease. One area of focus is cardiac MRI in relation to congenital heart disease, electrophysiology and heart failure, image guided intervention, XMR (X-ray and MRI) guided cardiac catheterisation and methodological advances to move to faster 3-Dimensional cardiac imaging.

 

His group was the first to perform MRI-guided cardiac catheterisation in patients and the first to carry out entirely MR-guided cardiovascular interventions. In congenital heart disease, he has developed techniques for three-dimensional imaging as well as physiological assessment using flow measurements. Using MR guided cardiac catheterisation his group has developed new techniques of measuring pulmonary vascular resistance and compliance.

 

In the area of cardiac arrhythmias, heart failure and devices, new biomarkers for therapy guidance and therapy assessment as well as multi-modal techniques for image guided intervention have been developed. More recent research areas include the use of biophysical computational models to better understand pathological mechanisms and help guide treatments and molecular imaging using newly developed molecular imaging markers both in animal and human models.

 

    Research

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      Research

      MRI main image
      Wellcome EPSRC Centre for Medical Engineering

      The Centre focuses on the science and engineering of medical imaging. The UK is strong in medical imaging, with the Centre hosting the largest research group in this area in Europe.The Centre combines fundamental research in engineering, physics, mathematics, computing, and chemistry with medicine and biomedical research. The 400 inter-disciplinary scientists in the Centre are transforming the diagnosis and treatment of patients, and will deliver exceptional research.

      News

      Professor Razavi steps down as AI Centre Director

      Professor Reza Razavi has announced he is stepping down as the Director of the AI Centre for Value Based Healthcare to focus on a new AI healthcare spin-out...

      ai centre reza

      New open-source AI tool supports clinicians to interpret lung ultrasounds

      Researchers at King’s College London have developed a real-time AI-enabled lung ultrasound tool which can assist non expert clinicians in interpreting scans...

      close up of a person's hands as they operate an ultrasound machine

      Healthcare workers in England experience PTSD at twice the rate of the general public

      New research led by the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s College London in collaboration with the NIHR ARC North Thames at...

      ICU Nurse

      King's ranks among top universities for collaborations which benefit economy and society

      King’s College London has ranked among the top English universities in this year’s Knowledge Exchange Framework results.

      A red flag with the King's College London logo

      King's maintains position among best universities for research excellence and power

      King’s has today maintained its position among the UK’s best universities for research excellence and power

      A red flag with the King's College London logo

      King's College London and Apollo Therapeutics enter into a strategic collaboration

      King’s College London and Apollo Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company focused on translational biology and asset-centric drug development, today...

      London skyline climate

      King's co-launches centre for 6G research

      New centre consolidates the position of King’s College London and the University of Bristol as pioneers of next generation mobile networks at Royal Academy of...

      Network

      People and the Pandemic: King's collective response

      Highlighting the human stories behind King’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic

      Image showing a green background with hand drawn illustrations and the words People and the Pandemic

      King's ranks among the top universities for Knowledge Exchange

      King’s College London has today been ranked among the top universities as part of the first Knowledge Exchange Framework.

      Knowledge Exchange

      King's becomes official partner in scaling up COVID-19 testing

      The Department of Health and Social Care has today announced that King’s laboratories will become an official partner in helping to scale-up COVID-19 testing...

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