Dr Joseph Tomson
MD 2016, CCT CARDIOLOGY 2015, MRCP ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS 2004
Consultant Cardiologist
Dr J Tomson qualified as a physician in 1999 and completed specialist Cardiology training in the WM Deanery, UK (CCT) in 2015. He also undertook Cardiovascular research, trials and epidemiology training at the University of Oxford where he completed his doctorate (MD).
He is a Consultant Cardiologist based at the Royal Free London Hospitals and consults privately in London. He has interests in Cardiovascular disease especially in disorders relating to cardiac rhythm, cardiac dysfunction, coronary disease and in cardiovascular disease prevention.
Dr Tomson’s specialist interests include cardiac rhythm management, cardiac device therapy (cardiac resynchronisation therapy, pacemakers, implantable cardiac defibrillators), heart failure, cardiomyopathies, palpitations and syncope.
He also has expertise in cardiovascular imaging, cardiovascular research including epidemiology and drug trials. He is a Member of the Royal College of Physicians, UK (MRCP), and is a Certified Cardiac Device Specialist (CCDS) by the IBHRE. He conducts cardiovascular research and teaches medical students at the UCL, London.
Hospital Locations
Royal Free Hospital, Hadley Wood Hospital
Year qualified
1999
Country of qualification
UK
Languages spoken
English, Malayalam, Hindi
Specialities
- Cardiology
Memberships
- British Cardiovascular society (BCS)
- British society of heart failure (BSH)
- European society of cardiology (ESC)
- Royal college of Physicians, London (RCP)
- British Medical Association (BMA)
Registration and licensing
GMC:5207347
Procedures offered
- Cardiac defibrillators
- Heart rhythm monitors; diagnostic coronary angiography
- Implant of cardiac pacemakers
- Resynchronization therapy devices
Clinical interests
- Atrial fibrillation
- Breathlessness of cardiac cause
- Cardiac defibrillator
- Cardiac problems with chronic illnesses
- Cardiac resynchronisation therapy
- Cardiac Rhythm management
- Cardiovascular diseases
- Cardiovascular research
- Coronary disease
- Heart failure
- Implant of cardiac devices
- Loss of consciousness or syncope
- Management of palpitations
- Prevention of cardiovascular disease
Research interests
- Arterial stiffness
- Cardiac function
- Cardiac rhythms
- Cardiovascular disease
- Clinical evidence through Randomised controlled trials
- Clinical studies on devices
- CVD epidemiology
- Developing International research collaborations
- Healthcare innovation
- Hypertension
- Public health