Prof Michael Henein

Professor Michael Henein is a highly experienced Cardiologist, with expertise in Cardiac CT/MRI and General Cardiology. He currently serves as a Professor at IMperial College London, having been a Profesor of Cardiology at Umeå University and Heart Centre in Sweden for th elast 15 years, preceeded by the Professor of Cardiology at Canterbury Christ Church University, Kent, UK. Professor Henein supervised 24 PhD International students who all successfully completed their theses and graduated.

Previously, he worked as a Consultant in Cardiology and Echocardiography, leading the Echocardiography Department at the Royal Brompton Hospital and completing a five-year Clinical Senior Lectureship at Imperial College London. Professor Henein has also established an MSc course in Cardiology at Canterbury Christ Church University and has tutored and graduated 100 students with quality MSc theses.

Professor Henein's research interests include coronary calcification, heart failure, and valvular heart disease, and his team is currently working on a number of research projects related to these areas. He has published over 450 papers in peer-reviewed journals and has written and edited seven textbooks and over fifteen chapters, including two in the Oxford Textbook of Medicine on pericardial diseases and valvular heart diseases.

In addition to his academic and research achievements, Professor Henein is also the Founder and Editor in Chief of the International Cardiovascular Forum Journal and a Guest Editor for the International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Frontier of Cardiovascular Medicine and the Journal of Diagnostics.