Dr Ahran Arnold

Dr Ahran Arnold MBBS BSc MSc MRCP PhD is an Senior Lecturer in Cardiology at the National Heart and Lung Institute (NHLI), Imperial College London (h-index ≥20) and a Consultant Cardiologist specialising in Cardiac Electrophysiology, Complex Devices and Inherited Arrhythmia Syndromes at Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.

He completed his undergraduate medical training at Imperial College London with numerous distinctions and merits in 2010 with an intercalated BSc in Neuroscience and Mental Health in 2008. He undertook his post-registration general medical training from 2011-14 in London (Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, Royal Brompton Hospital, King's College Hospital) in General, Acute, Emergency and Intensive Care medicine, as well as Cardiology and Neurology, at tertiary and quaternary centres. He completed his general cardiology training from 2014-16 at Royal Brompton Hospital and predominately at Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust alongside research training as an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow in Cardiology at Imperial College London. He completed his electrophysiology and inherited cardiac conditions training Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.

He completed a MSc in Health Economics, Outcomes and Management at the London School of Economics in association with the European Heart Academy with Merit in 2017. He completed a PhD in 2020 at the NHLI, with a focus on development and mechanistic evaluation of innovations in complex cardiac device therapy (His bundle pacing, Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy, Sudden Cardiac Death risk stratification, left ventricular outflow tract obstruction modulation, machine learning and haemodynamic sensors).

He was appointed an Academic Clinical Lecturer and Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at NHLI in 2020 funded by the NHLI and the BHF Imperial Centre of Research Excellence alongside completing his sub-specialty training in Complex Devices, Invasive Electrophysiology and Inherited Cardiac Conditions at Hammersmith Hospital. In 2022, he was appointed to an NIHR Academic Clinical Lectureship to continue his work.

He is the module lead for the Clinical Research and Innovation module for Year 2 medical students at Imperial College London and is an examiner, lecturer and project supervisor for the Cardiovascular Sciences iBSc at NHLI. He was a lecturer and examiner for the University of Buckingham Clinical MD in General Internal Medicine.

He is a peer-reviewer for the following publications: BMJ, EHJ, JACC:EP, AER, JCE, PACE, HF reviews and has been grant reviewer for ESPRC, NIHR and BHF among others. He is a Review Editor for Frontiers in Physiology and has been a topic editor for Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine.