Professor Rui Providencia

I was born in Coimbra, where I trained in Cardiology. In 2012 I moved to Toulouse, France, for a Cardiac Electrophysiology Fellowship at Clinique Pasteur. I continued my training in London from 2014 onwards at The Heart Hospital - UCL Hospitals, and later at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, until I was appointed Consultant in the Summer of 2017. I am Professor of Cardiovascular Epidemiology at the Institute of Health Informatics-University College of London and a Consultant at St Bartholomew’s Hospital. I run weekly Arrhythmia clinic at Newham University Hospital, and regularly perform catheter ablation procedures of all types of arrhythmias and implant cardiac rhythm devices. I have authored/co-authored pivotal work on the use of DOACs, contact force-sensing catheters and the cryoballon for catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation. Current interests in research: AF epidemiology, artificial intelligence, evidence synthesis, novel drug target identification. Hobby: songwriting and performing