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About Dr Hossam Elsayed

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Dr Hossam Elsayed qualified in 2001 from Egypt and trained as a general physician. Whilst in the UK, he opted for additional training in General Medicine, before starting training in Cardiology. Dr Elsayed always aspired to be a cardiologist and in 2013 he joined the national training programme for cardiology in Wales. Dr Elsayed has a breadth of experience working in general cardiology in District General Hospitals and tertiary care cardiac centres. During his training, he had the opportunity to train under some of the leading cardiologists and has been fortunate to acquire a wealth of experience in managing a wide variety of complex cardiac conditions.

Dr Elsayed’s subspecialty training has been in heart failure and complex implantable cardiac devices. He have extensive training in both, and is regarded as an experienced operator of cardiac implantable devices having received excellent training at the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff and Morriston Cardiac Centre, Swansea.

Following completion of his cardiology specialist training, he completed a prestigious clinical fellowship in complex cardiac devices training in the Liverpool Heart and Chest Centre under supervision from world-renowned experts in the field. 

Dr Elsayed has been working as a Consultant Cardiologist at the University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (Good Hope Hospital) since June 2020. He sees the full spectrum of General Cardiology and also run specialist services in his main subspecialty interests including diagnosis and management of heart failure, cardiomyopathies, heart rhythm problems and recurrent blackouts.

He lead the heart failure service at Good Hope Hospital; set up a virtual weekly heart failure MDT which is well attended by community heart failure teams from the North and East of Birmingham.

Dr Elsayed is passionate about teaching and has been actively involved in training Birmingham Medical School’s undergraduate students, postgraduate teaching and training junior doctors and nurses.

He took the roles of Cardiology lead for fourth-year medical students, senior academic tutor and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at the University of Birmingham. 

He is keen on the use of quality improvement tools and matrices both for providing patient-focused clinical care and improving the quality of training.

Dr Elsayed is multilingual and consultations can be had in Arabic and English. He regularly contributes to charitable work and help raise funds for charitable organisations in the developing world.

If you have complex health problems, then it is advisable to bring a referral letter from your GP to facilitate consultation. However, Dr Elsayed is happy to provide consultation without a referral letter if you wish to do so.
 

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  • Heart Failure management
  • Implantable cardiac devices (pacemakers, defibrillators and cardiac resynchronisation therapy)
  • Echocardiography
  • Atrial Fibrillation
  • Blood pressure management
  • Angina
  • Palpitations
  • Cardiac resynchronisation therapy implantation

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  • British Medical Association
  • British Cardiovascular Society
  • British Heart Rhythm Society
  • British Heart Failure Society
  • European Society of Cardiology
  • European Heart Failure Association 

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