Richard Balasubramaniam

Dr Richard Balasubramaniam is a Consultant Cardiologist & EP, and Clinical Lead for Cardiac Rhythm Management at University Hospitals Dorset, UK. 

Dr Balasubramaniam graduated from the University of Birmingham in 1996, having been a winner of the Aesculapius Prize for services to medicine, and trained in Cardiology at Papworth Hospital, Cambridge before pursuing a fellowship in Electrophysiology under Professor Jonathan Kalman at the Royal Melbourne Hospital in Melbourne, Australia, one of the world’s leading centres in cardiac electrophysiology. During the training, he completed a PhD at Cambridge University in ventricular arrhythmias in genetically modified murine models of arrhythmogenesis and maintained an interest in the management of patients with channelopathies and aborted sudden cardiac death. He was appointed as a Consultant Cardiologist and Electrophysiologist at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital in December 2008.