counselling

He is actively involved in the Cardiac Risk in the Young screening programme as well as the Centre for Inherited Cardiac Conditions and Sports Cardiology at St George’s Hospital.

He has presented his work in oral sessions at the European Society of Cardiology and American Heart Association, and has been an invited lecturer at several major meetings including the British Cardiovascular Society.

He was the winner of the BHF/BCS Prize for Congenital Heart Disease (2012) and finalist in the EuroPrevent Young Investigator Award (2011). He recently undertook a period of training in cardiac MRI in the Netherlands, and has had several publications relating to cardiac remodelling in elite athletes.

He is a member of the Research and Audit Committee of the British Society of Echocardiography, for whom he has authored protocols for the echocardiographic assessment of Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy, and Cardiac Screening for Inherited Cardiac Diseases.

Outside work, Abbas enjoys keep-fit and running, and recently completed the London Marathon for HeartUK.

Research Papers

Oxborough, D., Zaidi, A., Sharma, S. and Somauroo, J.
"The Echocardiographic Assessment of the Right Ventricle with particular reference to Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy – A Protocol of the British Society of Echocardiography."
ECHO - Journal of the British Society of Echocardiography May 2013, p12-18

Zaidi, A., Ghani, S., Sharma, R., Oxborough, D., Panoulas, V.F., Sheikh, N., Gati, S., Papadakis, M. and Sharma, S.
"Physiological Right Ventricular Adaptation in Elite Athletes of African and Afro-Caribbean Origin."
Circulation 30th April 2013 Vol.127, Issue 17, p1783-1792  [Full Text]  [Press release about this research article]

Gati, S., Chandra, N., Bennett, R.L., Reed, M., Kervio, G., Panoulas, V.F., Ghani, S., Sheikh, N., Zaidi, A., Wilson, M., Papadakis, M., Carre, F. and Sharma, S.
"Increased left ventricular trabeculation in highly trained athletes: do we need more stringent criteria for the diagnosis of left ventricular non-compaction in athletes?"
Heart February 2013  [Abstract]

Sheikh, N., Papadakis, M., Carre, F., Kervio, G., Panoulas, V.F., Ghani, S., Zaidi, A., Gati, S., Rawlins, J., Wilson, M., and Sharma, S.
"Cardiac adaptation to exercise in adolescent athletes of African ethnicity: an emergent elite athletic population."
British Journal of Sports Medicine January 2013  [Abstract]

Zaidi, A. and Sharma, S.
"Exercise and heart disease: from athletes and arrhythmias to hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and congenital heart disease."
Future Cardiology January 2013 Vol.9, No.1, p119-136  [Abstract]

Luijkx, T., Cramer, M.J., Zaidi, A., Rienks, R., Senden, P.J., Sharma, S., van Hellemondt, F.J., Buckens, C.F., Mali, W.P. and Velthuis, B.K.
"Ethnic differences in ventricular hypertrabeculation on cardiac MRI in elite football players."
Netherlands Heart Journal July 2012  [Full Text]

Sharma, S. and Zaidi, A.
"Exercise-induced arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy: fact or fallacy?"
European Heart Journal December 2011  [Extract]  [Interview with Dr Zaidi about this article]

Dr Abbas Zaidi, CRY Research Fellow, highlights the importance of expertise in Sports Cardiology in a debate in the British Journal of Cardiology: "Chest pain - troponin and athletes" http://bjcardio.co.uk/2011/08/correspondence-5/ (second letter)
British Journal of Cardiology August 2011 Vol.18, Issue 4, p179    
[This is in response to http://bjcardio.co.uk/2011/06/correspondence-4/]

Zaidi, A. and Sharma, S.
"The athlete's heart"
British Journal of Hospital Medicine May 2011 Vol.27, No.5, p275-281  [Abstract]