Anna Maria Choy

Biography

Dr Choy is a Senior Clinical Lecturer in the Centre for Cardiovascular and Diabetes Medicine and a consultant cardiologist with interests in inherited and acquired arrhythmias. She is also the lead for international medical students at the medical school.   Prior to her appointment in 2004 to University of Dundee, she was an associate professor in Cardiology, and head of the Arrhythmia Service at the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur.  She was an American Heart Association Fellow at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine where she trained in electrophysiology and was a research fellow to Professor Dan Roden. She was awarded the North American Society of Pacing and Electrophysiology Young Investigator award for her research in 1997. Her research interests are arrhythmia related; focusing on implantable cardiac electronic devices for arrhythmia management, the familial arrhythmias, anti arrhythmic drugs and atrial fibrillation. Dr Choy is also the national lead clinician for FANS (the Familial Arrhythmia Network for Scotland), a national specialist network for patients with malignant arrhythmias due to genetic disease. Although the recognition and understanding of these conditions has increased rapidly, many of these advances have not been translated into better care of individuals at risk and their families. Anna Maria and colleagues started FANS, through funding from the Scottish government, to ensure that individuals and families in Scotland with these conditions will receive timely, evidenced based and equitable care using an integrated multidisciplinary approach and to facilitate research links across Scotland into these conditions. In recognition of this work, she was awarded the National Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Management of Inherited Cardiac Conditions from the Arrhythmia Alliance in 2009.

Research Interest

Arrhythmia and heart failure related research including investigator initiated (research grants from CHSS, Tenovus, St Jude Medical) and clinical trials.  Arrhythmia related research focusing on implantable cardiac electronic devices for arrhythmia management; the familial arrhythmias, anti arrhythmic drugs and atrial fibrillation.