Professor Ross Hunter
Consultant Cardiologist
Heart Health
Sub-specialties: Cardiology, Heart Rhythm Disturbances including Atrial Fibrillation, Catheter Ablation, Atrial Fibrillation Ablation, Cardiac Pacing and Syncope, Complex Devices, Management of heart failure and advanced non-invasive cardiac imaging, Syncope, heart-health, Hypertension, Chest Pain, Breathlessness, Cholesterol, Cardiovascular Prevention.
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Overview
Professor Ross Hunter is a consultant cardiologist and electrophysiologist at OneWelbeck Heart Health, specialising in heart rhythm management. He is a founding member of the group and a partner.
About Professor Ross Hunter
Professor Ross Hunter is a consultant cardiologist and electrophysiologist (specialist in heart rhythm management). He has over 20 years of experience and has been an arrhythmia specialist for over 15 years. He is the Clinical Director of Arrhythmia Services at The Barts Heart Centre, the largest cardiac centre in the UK and one of the largest in the world. He leads a team of 28 excellent arrhythmia and devices consultants in providing 24/7 care for complex cases from around the UK. His previous roles at Barts have included Director of Arrhythmia Research and Lead for AF services. The Barts arrhythmia unit was recently commended in the houses of parliament for innovations in arrhythmia care when given several awards by the Arrhythmia Alliance during “Heart Rhythm Week”.
He is an internationally recognised specialist in the management of arrhythmias. He performs catheter ablations for all arrhythmias and according to NICOR, he performs approximately 200 complex catheter ablations per year making him consistently one of the highest volume operators in the UK for catheter ablation. He also implants, revises and extracts the full range of pacemakers including biventricular pacemakers, ICDs, sub-cutaneous ICDs and leadless pacemakers. He is at the forefront of his speciality and has rare expertise at the cutting edge of new techniques and technologies in the fields of ablation and pacing including robotic technology, 3D mapping systems, cryoballoons and now offers pulsed field ablation (PFA). He has high success rates and very low complication rates and a track record for helping patients with difficult problems, such as complex repeat procedures for those with previously failed ablation, patients with structural heart disease or other high-risk cases.
He is an elected council member of the British Heart Rhythm Society where he is the committee UK Research Lead. He is the expert advisor to NICOR on arrhythmias and a board member of the BHRS multicentre trials group.
Areas of Expertise
Professor Hunter performs a range of treatments, including:
- Heart rhythm management
- Catheter ablation SVT, atrial flutter, AF and VT
- Cardiac devices management
- Device implantation, upgrading and extracting for the full range of devices (including ICDs and biventricular devices/CRT)
- Leadless pacemakers
Some of the conditions he commonly treats are:
- Arrhythmia
- Atrial fibrillation
- Atrial tachycardias
- Ventricular tachycardia (VT)
- Heart failure
- Palpitations
- Dizziness or fainting
- Chest pain
- Breathlessness
- Hypertension
- Cardiovascular risk factors
- Cholesterol management
Additional Information
Memberships
- Member of the Royal College of Physicians
- Member of the British Heart Rhythm Society
- Fellow of The European Society of Cardiology
- Fellow of The European Heart Rhythm Association
Awards
- My PhD student won The Young Investigator Award at the Heart Rhythm Society (USA) 2018.
- Professor Hunter’s fellows and PhD students were finalists at the British Heart Rhythm Society Young Investigator Award 7 times in the last 10 years and one first place once.
- Team winning The AF Association pioneers in healthcare award November 2016 and again in November 2023.
- Part of a team winning The Arrhythmia Alliance Team of the Year Award October 2017
Finalist Heart Rhythm Society (USA) young investigator award 2011
Finalist Heart Rhythm UK young investigator award 2011
Distinction award with medical degree 2001.
Research Highlights
Professor Hunter completed a BSc in cardiovascular medicine at Imperial College London in 1998 and was awarded his medical degree (MBBS) with distinction at Guy's, King's & St Thomas' in 2001. He obtained a PhD in novel methods for mapping and ablation of persistent atrial fibrillation. During this time, he was a finalist for both the British and the US Heart Rhythm Society Young Investigator of the year award in 2011. He continues to lead research in this area to advance our understanding of arrhythmias and pilot new techniques to improve outcomes. He has published over 150 research papers in the field of arrhythmias on PubMed.
He is an elected council member of the British Heart Rhythm Society and is their UK National Research Lead. He is an expert advisor to NICOR and a board member of the BHRS multicentre trials group. He is also editor-in-chief of Cardiac Rhythm News. He continues to develop new techniques and technologies to investigate and treat arrhythmias, runs clinical trials and supervises PhD students.
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Professor Ross Hunter
Areas of Expertise
About Professor Ross Hunter
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Research Highlights
Awards recieved