Profile
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4622-5160
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Steffen Petersen is a Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary University of London and a Consultant Cardiologist at Barts Heart Centre, Barts Health NHS Trust. He is Director (interim) for the BHF Data Science Centre. He is President of the European Society of Cardiology's (ESC) European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI). He holds an MBCHB and MDRES equivalent (Dr med.) from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany, a DPHIL (OXON) from the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Oxford, an MPH from Harvard School of Public Health and an MSc from the London School of Economics. He is level 3 certified for cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR). He has been actively involved in cardiovascular magnetic resonance since 1998 and he reports over 1000 cardiac adult MRI scans each year.
Memberships and awards
• Fellow of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (FSCMR)
• Fellow of the European Society of Cardiovascular Imaging (FEACVI)
• Fellow of the Japanese Circulation Society (FJCS)
• Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA)
• Fellow of Royal College of Physicians (FRCP)
• Fellow of the American College of Cardiology (FACC)
• Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology (FESC)
• Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute
Research
Group members
Centre leadership:
- Centre lead and Principal Investigator: Steffen E Petersen, Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine
- Deputy Centre lead and Principal Investigator: Francesca Pugliese, Reader
Core staff:
- Centre and events manager: Jane Batchelor
- Assistant Director - Health and Imaging Informatics: Aaron Lee
- Senior Statistician and Data Scientist: Ahmed Salih
Senior (postdoc) researchers (* if honorary):
Mohammed Khanji* (Reader); Guy Lloyd* (Senior Clinical Lecturer); Sanjeev Bhattacharyya* (Senior Clinical Lecturer); Dr Magnus T. Jensen* (Senior Clinical Lecturer, based in Copenhagen); Dr Jose Vargas* (Senior Clinical Lecturer, based in Washington DC); Marc Miquel* (Senior Lecturer); Nay Aung (NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer); Zahra Raisi-Estabragh (NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer); Dr Musa Abdulkareem*, Postdoc (based in Leicester); Liliana Szabo (Postdoc)
PhD students (^ if clinical):
Mihir Sanghvi^; Vijay Shyam Sundar^; Sucharitha Chadalavada^; Hafiz Naderi^; James Malcolmson; Bunny Saberwal^; Elisa Rauseo^; Shahid Karim^; Kerrick Hesse^; Sveeta Badiani; Nikhil Ahluwalia^; Celeste McCracken (registered at University of Oxford); Jawza Aldakhil
Junior researchers (*if honorary):
Dorina Condurache; Gracia Andriamiadana; Ross Thomson (NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow); Adil Mahmood (NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow)
Summary
Professor Petersen’s research typically involves cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) acquired in clinical or research settings and forms an important component of research work in cardiovascular epidemiology, non-invasive (imaging) biomarker development and assessing the value of cardiac imaging in prevention, diagnosis, risk assessment and management of cardiovascular diseases. He pioneered many artificial intelligence applications in cardiovascular imaging in multi-disciplinary collaborations. Most of the research data comes from large-scale population studies with cardiac imaging (e.g. UK Biobank, Petersen is co-lead for cardiac imaging), clinical registries and cohorts (Petersen is Principal and Chief Investigator of the Barts BioResource) and electronic health care records and other digital healthcare data.
Publications
Relevant metrics are listed on Google Scholar.
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Sanghvi MM, Dhall E, Chahal CAA et al. (2025). Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy management: a systematic review of the clinical practice guidelines and recommendations.
QMRO:
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Condurache D-G, Raisi-Estabragh Z, Petersen SE (2025). Chapter 8 Noninvasive diagnostic evaluation.
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Quiroz JC, Cooper J, McCracken C et al. . The association between adverse childhood experiences and adult cardiac function in the UK Biobank.
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van Duijvenboden S, Nelson CP, Raisi-Estabragh Z et al. (2024). Leucocyte telomere length and conduction system ageing..
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Shyam-Sundar V, Slabaugh G, Mohiddin SA et al. (2024). Clinical features, myocardial injury and systolic impairment in acute myocarditis..
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Ahluwalia N, Honarbakhsh S, Joshi A et al. (2024). The Restitution Threshold Index Characterizes the Association Between Atrial Fibrillation Ventricular Rate and Ejection Fraction.
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Bevis L, Misghina S, Rauseo E et al. (2024). Development of a User-Friendly Pipeline for Constructing Atrial Models at Scale: Importance of the End-User for Clinical Uptake. Computing in Cardiology 2024 (CinC24)
QMRO:
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Ahluwalia N, Honarbakhsh S, Abbass H et al. (2024). Characterisation of patients who develop atrial fibrillation-induced cardiomyopathy.
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Mu Y, Dashtban A, Mizani MA et al. (2024). Healthcare utilisation of 282,080 individuals with long COVID over two years: a multiple matched control, longitudinal cohort analysis.
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Ho FK, Dale C, Mizani MA et al. . Routine measurement of cardiometabolic disease risk factors in primary care in England before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic: A population-based cohort study.
View Profile Publication Page Teaching
- Prof Petersen has vast experience in successful supervision of clinical and non-clinical PhD students and help shape careers.
- Prof Petersen co-leads the clinical trials and regulatory affairs module (BMD378)
- Prof Petersen supervises student selected components (SSC) related to cardiology and supports multi-disciplinary students in gaining research experiences in his team.
- Prof Petersen is an international leader in cardiovascular magnetic resonance and teaches at many national and international courses and conferences
- Prof Petersen co-leads the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI) cardiovascular magnetic resonance exam prep course
- Prof Petersen as President of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI) sets the strategy and standards and contributes to the delivery of multi-modality cardiac imaging worldwide
- Professor Petersen co-edited the popular EACVI Textbook of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance textbook
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