Kalpa De Silva
Consultant interventional cardiologist
Biography
Kalpa De Silva is a consultant interventional cardiologist at Guy's and St THomas' NHS Foundation Trust and honorary senior lecturer at King's College London.
Education and training
- Coronory physiology PhD, King's College London, 2014
- Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and American College of Cardiology
- International fellowship in complex coronary intervention, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, Australia
- Clinical training in general and interventional cardiology, King's College Hospital and Guy's and St Thomas'
- Medicine at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry
Research interests
- Coronary physiology
- Intra-coronary imaging
- Development of robotic PCI
Awards
- Transcatheter Therapeutics (TCT) International Fellows award, 2016
- Nominated for the American College of Cardiology (ACC) young investigator award, 2013
- King's College London graduate research prize, 2011
- Research funding from Heart Research UK, 2010
- Research funding from the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR), 2009
Contact
Specialist interests
- Coronary artery disease
- Looking after people with chest pain, including those with microvascular angina and those who have suffered heart attacks
- Coronary angiography
- Complex percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI)
- High-risk, complex PCI
- Zero and low-contrast PCI
Last updated: January 2024