Dr Ahran Arnold
Consultant Cardiologist
Heart Health
Sub-specialties: Cardiology, Heart Rhythm, Electrophysiology, Inherited Cardiac Conditions.
02036532005
Overview
Dr Ahran Arnold is a Consultant Cardiologist specialising in electrophysiology and devices at OneWelbeck and Hammersmith Hospital. He carries out arrhythmia procedures including ablation and device implantation and assesses patients with symptoms or test results potentially caused by heart conditions and heart rhythm disorders. He is a Senior Lecturer in Cardiology at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London where he runs a clinical research program focuses on rhythm management, wearables and machine learning for cardiac conditions.
About 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.
Areas of Expertise
Dr Ahran Arnold is an expert in the following conditions:
- Cardiac resynchronization therapy
He is also an expert in the following tests and treatments:
- Ablation for arrhythmias including atrial fibrillation, atrial tachycardia, atrial flutter, supraventricular tachycardia (SVT), ventricular ectopy
- Device implantation including pacemakers, defibrillators, cardiac resynchronization therapy, conductionsystem pacing, implantable loop recorders
- Rhythm monitoring including holters and patches
Additional Information
Dr Ahran Arnold also practices in the following locations:
- Consultant Cardiologist, Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Senior Lecturer in Cardiology, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London
Active Memberships:
- Member of the Royal College of Physicians
- Member of the European Society of Cardiology
- Member of the European Heart Rhythm Association
- Member of the Heart Rhythm Society
- Member of the British Cardiovascular Society
Professional Awards:
- PhD "Mechanisms and Innovations in Pacing for Cardiomyopathy" - Imperial College London
- MSc "Health Economics, Outcomes and Management in Cardiovascular Sciences" - London School of Economics
- BSc "Neuroscience and Mental Health" - Imperial College London
- MRCP "Membership of the Royal College of Physcians"
- MBBS "Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery" - Imperial College London
- Royal Society of Medicine Cardiology Research Award
Research Highlights
His resynchronization versus biventricular pacing in patients with heart failure and left bundle branch block, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2018, https://www.jacc.org/doi/abs/10.1016/j.jacc.2018.09.073
N-of-1 Trial of a Statin, Placebo, or No Treatment to Assess Side Effects, New England Journal of Medicine, 2020, https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2031173
Catheter ablation improves cardiovascular outcomes in patients with atrial fibrillation and heart failure: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials, Europace, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1093/europace/euac173
Cryoballoon versus radiofrequency ablation for paroxysmal atrial fibrillation: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials, Clinical Research in Cardiology, 2018, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00392-018-1232-4
Efficacy of catheter-based renal denervation in the absence of antihypertensive medications (SPYRAL HTN-OFF MED Pivotal): a multicentre, randomised, sham-controlled trial, Lancet, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30554-7
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