Areas of Expertise
Dr Malik performs a range of treatments, including:
- Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVI procedure)
- Simple and complex coronary angioplasty
- Rotablation and chronic total occlustions (CTOs)
- Para-valvular leak closure
- Patent foramen ovale (PFO) closure
- Atrial septal defect (ASD) closure
- Left Atrial Appendage (LAA) closure.
Some of the conditions he commonly treats are:
- Aortic stenosis
- Coronary disease
- Structural heart disease
- Angina
- Blood pressure
- Chest pain
- Shortness of breath
- Valve disease
- Diabetes
- Heart attack
- Stroke
Personal Biography
Dr Iqbal Malik, MBBCh MA FRCP PhD, graduated from Cambridge University, in 1991. His science training was undertaken in Cambridge and his clinical training at Guy’s Hospital.
After qualification, he joined the Royal London Hospital SHO rotation, and was awarded MRCP, in 1994. He then trained in cardiology and general medicine on the Royal Postgraduate Medical School rotation at the Hammersmith Hospital, St. Marys Hospital and other hospitals in west London, and was awarded MRCP, in 1994.
Following a research fellowship in cardiovascular medicine at Hammersmith Hospital and Imperial College, he was awarded FRCP from the Royal College of Physicians, and an MA from Cambridge University.
In 1997, he took a three-year sabbatical to complete his PhD at Imperial College, London.
He took sabbaticals in Germany and Italy to complete his interventional cardiology training.
Dr Malik was appointed consultant cardiologist at St Mary’s Hospital and honorary senior lecturer at Imperial College, in 2003. Following the merger of St Mary’s, Hammersmith and Charing Cross Hospitals with Imperial College, he began to practice at all these hospitals.
In 2010, he was appointed lead for the Heart Attack Treatment programme and in 2011, he became Director of the Cardiac Catheter Laboratories at Hammersmith Hospital.
He is a clinical advisor on the NHS England London Strategic Clinical Advisory Group (SCLG) for Cardiovascular Medicine. He is interested in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest management, and the treatment of Kawasaki disease in adults.
He has an interest in putting patient safety first. As part of his role at Hammersmith Hospital, he as implemented many audit projects and information technology systems to improve patient safety.
He has also developed an electronic patient transfer system which has been taken up widely in London and beyond, to help patient journeys between hospitals.
