Dr Kristopher Knott is a Consultant Cardiologist at St George's University Hospitals in London, where he leads general cardiology and heart failure clinics. He assesses adults with chest pain, breathlessness, palpitations, high blood pressure and heart failure, as well as people seeking to understand and reduce their cardiovascular risk.

He specialises in advanced cardiac imaging and holds the highest level of accreditation in cardiac MRI and CT. His clinical interests include coronary artery disease, coronary microvascular disease and heart failure with preserved ejection fraction.

Dr Knott studied medicine at the University of Cambridge and University College London, before training at hospitals including St George's, King's College Hospital and the Royal Brompton. He completed a British Heart Foundation-funded PhD at UCL and holds honorary academic appointments at UCL and City St George's, University of London.

His research includes quantitative myocardial perfusion mapping, a cardiac MRI technique that measures blood flow to the heart muscle. His current interests include CT assessment of coronary plaque and inflammation, and the safe use of artificial intelligence in cardiac imaging. He has received the British Cardiovascular Society Emerging Leaders prize.