Waqas is a consultant at Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and have completed postgraduate certification in Cardiology, Intensive Care & General Internal Medicine with a particular interest in cardiogenic shock, heart transplantation and mechanical circulatory support. He holds Level 2 Transthoracic Echocardiography, Transoesophageal Echocardiography, Cardiac Magnetic Resonance and Cardiac Computed Tomography accreditation. He studied Medicine at the University of Oxford, trained at Royal Brompton & Harefield, Guy's & St Thomas' and Barts Health and currently work cross-site as a consultant at Guy's & St Thomas' and Harefield Hospitals.

He led the development of the Mechanical Life Support (MLS) programme and the extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation service at Harefield which won national Quality Improvement of the Year and Patient Safety & Education Training Award at the HSJ Patient Safety Awards. The MLS resuscitation practice with three core resuscitation algorithms for LVAD, Impella and ECMO has gone on to be endorsed nationally by FICM, ICS, BCS, BACCN, SCTS, ACTACC, BSH and Resuscitation Council UK.

He was highly commended as Clinical Leader of the Year in 2022 & 2024 by the Health Service Journal for national roles including on the Board of Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine as Chair of the Intensivist in Training sub-committee and on the Council of the Academy of Medical Royal College's as Chair of Academy Resident Doctors Committee.

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