Dr Ali Vazir is a consultant cardiologist at the Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals, part of Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust. He is Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at the NHLI, Imperial College London His expertise are in diagnosis and management of heart failure and interventional echocardiography to guide trans catheter based procedures. HIs research interest include trials of novel drug and device therapies and interventional echocardiography.