Tevfik is a consultant cardiologist at Guy’s and St Thomas’ and a clinical senior lecturer at King’s College London.
He has specialist interests in cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging; heart failure; inherited and inflammatory heart muscle disease. In addition to weekly inherited cardiac conditions, heart failure and general cardiology clinics, he runs a monthly joint cardiology-rheumatology clinic.
He is part of the inpatient heart failure service at St Thomas’ hospital and works closely with the Bexley community heart failure service, running a monthly clinic at Queen Mary’s hospital, Sidcup.
Tevfik graduated from Imperial College School of Medicine in 2002 with numerous prizes and distinctions, as well as a BSc in Cardiovascular Medicine. He undertook junior doctor training in the North Thames region obtaining Membership of the Royal College of Physicians in 2005.
He undertook higher specialist training in Cardiology and General Internal Medicine at several leading London units including the Royal Brompton Hospital, Hammersmith hospital and the Transplant/advanced heart failure unit at Harefield hospital.
He completed his PhD at the Royal Brompton Hospital (National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College) on the Role of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance in the Diagnostic and Prognostic Assessment of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (2012).
He also obtained SCMR Level III accreditation in Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, SCCT Level III accreditation in Cardiovascular CT and completed British Society of Echocardiography transthoracic accreditation.
He has authored/co-authored numerous original papers in high impact international journals including Journal of the American College of Cardiologists, Circulation, Journal of the American Medical Association, Heart and the Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance amongst others.
He undertakes teaching and research within the School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences (part of the Faculty of Life Sciences, King’s College London).