Prof. Dr. Ronak Rajani

Professor Rajani is currently the cardiovascular lead for Research and Development at GSTT also NIHR CRN lead for cardiovascular Research in South London.

He has an interest in advanced plaque analysis, CT planning for structural intervention and the development of novel applications of cardiac CT with bioengineering and computer processing. He has published more than 240 peer reviewed manuscripts in multimodality imaging and has international research collaborations with the US, Europe and Asia. Professor Rajani is a lead panel member for NICE and sits on the MTAC for novel CT technologies and is on the international sub-committee, education committee, best abstract and abstract grading committee of the SCCT. He holds level III accreditation with the SCCT and EAVCI and was awarded Fellow status to the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (FSCCT), European Society of Cardiology (FESC), American College of Cardiology (FACC) and Royal College of Radiologists (FRCR) for his scientific contribution to cardiac CT. Ronak is an advisor to industry on CT acquisition protocols for TMVR and has contributed book chapters to the Oxford Handbook of Cardiac CT, the EAVCI handbook on cardiac CT and the ESC Textbook of Cardiovascular Imaging, Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation 1st Ed and Infective Endocarditis – A Multidisciplinary Approach 1st Ed. He is part of the examination writing committee for the EAVCI CT certification exam and is a faculty member of the EAVCI course on Cardiac CT. Ronak founded the London CT Academy in 2015 based on a desire to create a non-profit making CT course that provided un unrivalled training experience for those interested in cardiac CT. This was followed by the creation in 2017 Professor Rajani of the world’s first online CT training course with Professor John Rumberger and the educational company Medmastery based in Salzburg Austria. Professor Rajani has achieved more than 5800 citations and has an H-index of 38.