Dr Ravi Kamdar is a Consultant Cardiologist specialising in Devices, Arrhythmia, and Heart Failure at King’s College and Croydon University Hospitals. He has been the Clinical Lead of the Arrhythmia Service at Croydon University Hospital since 2013 and is the hospital’s Lead for Cardiology Clinical Governance. Dr Kamdar is passionate about delivering high-quality care and strongly believes in shared-decision making and patient-centred care. He ensures his patients are fully involved in and informed about their condition, proposed investigations, and treatment options.

Dr Kamdar graduated with Honours from the renowned Medical College of St Bartholomew's and the Royal London Hospitals in 1996 and undertook his general professional training at King’s College, Royal Brompton, and Hammersmith Hospitals in London. He underwent postgraduate training in cardiology at King’s College and Guys & St Thomas’s Hospitals and additional subspecialty Fellowship training in cardiac devices and arrhythmia at St Bartholomew’s Hospital. He was appointed Consultant Cardiologist in 2009.

Dr Kamdar has more than 20 years’ experience in cardiology and specialises in the investigation, diagnosis, and management of all aspects of adult general cardiology including arrhythmia, heart failure, ischaemic heart disease, hypertension, and valvular heart disease. His subspecialist interest is in cardiac device treatments (pacemakers, defibrillators [ICD], and biventricular cardiac resynchronization therapy [CRT] devices), slow and fast heart rhythm disorders (arrhythmias), and heart failure. Dr Kamdar has a particular passion for cardiac device therapies and is widely regarded as an expert in this field, with multiple peer-reviewed publications. He is accredited as a Certified Cardiac Devices Specialist (CCDS) from The International Board of Heart Rhythm Examiners (IBHRE).

Dr Kamdar is highly experienced in the implantation and follow-up of simple and complex cardiac devices and performs the latest innovative cardiac device procedures including subcutaneous ICDs and His-bundle (conduction system) pacing. He has consistently been the highest volume implanter of complex cardiac devices at King’s College and Croydon University Hospitals for several years and frequently implants cardiac devices in difficult and challenging cases that have previously been unsuccessful.