Tushar Salukhe

Biography

Tushar Salukhe is an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College. He is a Consultant Cardiologist specialising in cardiac electrophysiology and cardiac devices at the Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals. Dr Salukhe specialises in the care and treatment of patients with cardiac arrhythmias, including advanced mapping and ablation and implantation of complex cardiac devices including defibrillators and biventricular pacemakers. His main clinical and academic focus is in the ablation of atrial arrhythmia, and in particular atrial fibrillation. His other specialist interest includes the care and treatment of patients with vasovagal syncope (fainting or transient loss of consciousness). He read medicine at Imperial College, London where he obtained a first class degree in medical science in 1995 and subsequently qualified in first place in medicine with distinctions in 1998. After training in internal medicine and obtaining his MRCP, he won funding from the British Heart Foundation to pursue his doctorate in pacing therapies for heart failure at the National Heart and Lung Institute under the supervision and tutelage of Professors Richard Sutton and Phillip Poole-Wilson. He obtained his MD in 2008.

Research Interest

Cardiology