Areas of Expertise

Dr Khamis performs a range of treatments, including:

• Echocardiography
• Coronary angiography
• Coronary angioplasty
• Single and double chamber pacemaker insertion
• Cardiac coronary CT scanning
• Optical coherence tomography
• 24 tape monitoring
• 24 hour blood pressure monitor
• Exercise tolerance testing
• Dobutamine stress echocardiography
• Full CardioPulmonary exercise testing
• Tilt table testing
• Interventional cardiology
• Cardiovascular risk assessment

Some of the conditions he commonly treats are:

• Angina
• Coronary artery disease
• Hypertension
• High cholesterol
• Valve disease
• Palpitations and fainting
• Those at high-risk of heart disease

About Dr Ramzi Khamis

Dr Khamis is a consultant cardiologist at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and is the Clinical Director of Cardiology and Cardiothoracic Surgery at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.

Ramzi holds a joint academic appointment at Imperial College London as a reader in cardiology at the National Heart and Lung Institute. He is considered a key opinion leader in atherosclerosis, the pathology that leads to coronary artery disease and heart attacks, and a leading teaching hospital consultant with expertise in general cardiology, interventional cardiology and cardiac risk.

Dr Khamis carries out coronary angiography and angioplasty using advanced techniques. He is also the clinical lead for the high-risk atherosclerosis and cardio immune clinic at Imperial, treating complex cases.

Dr Khamis has a deep interest and is a leader in the research field of cardiovascular medicine. He and his team work on the innovative development of interventional cardiology technologies  as well as new blood tests for the diagnosis and treatment of coronary artery disease which is the leading single cause of death globally.

During the COVID pandemic, Dr Khamis has led on the COVID response for Imperial Cardiology, and is treating patients with cardiovascular Long-COVID, myocarditis, cardiac complications of COVID  as well as contributing to research and guidelines on Long-COVID.

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Research Highlights

His research interests include the development of a multimodality imaging strategy for the detection of vulnerable plaque in atherosclerosis; developing novel biomarkers in cardiovascular risk assessment and the understanding the role of antibodies in atherosclerosis.

In 2014, Dr Khamis was the winner of the British Cardiovascular Society Young Research Worker of the Year Award and a finalist at the American College of Cardiology Young Investigator of the Year Award. He was also British Atherosclerosis Society Young Investigator of the Year finalist 2013 and the winner of the British Atherosclerosis Binks travel award (Harvard Medical School) 2013.