Position: Consultant Paediatric Cardiologist
Location: Cardiff, UK
Position: Consultant Paediatric and Fetal Cardiologist, Cardiac Electrophysiologist
Location: Cardiff, UK
Professor Orhan Uzun has been working as a Consultant Paediatric Cardiologist at Cardiff and Vale UHB since July 2001. He qualified from Istanbul University Medical Faculty in 1986 and became Consultant Paediatrician and completed his MD in 1992 at the same university hospital. Professor Uzun worked as a Chief Resident in Neonatology at Istanbul University Medical Faculty from 1992 to 1993. He completed Paediatric Cardiology Subspecialist Training at Yorkshire Heart Centre, in Leeds during 1993-1999 and briefly worked as a Locum Consultant in Leicester. He completed 2-year supra-specialist training in Cardiac Electrophysiology and Radiofrequency ablation at St Paul’s Hospital, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, in 1999-2001. He undertook Fetal Cardiology and additional Paediatric Electrophysiology training at Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada, in 2001. He has been at the forefront of teaching and training nationally and internationally in fields of electrophysiology, sport cardiology and sudden death syndromes, ECG, cardiac arrhythmias, echocardiography and fetal cardiology. He founded and led Welsh Paediatric and Fetal Cardiovascular Networks and Welsh Heart Families Support Group. He is the scientific paediatric session organiser, session advisor, faculty, chair and lecturer, Heart Rhythm Congress, UK 2008-2022. He has been formally appointed to Heart Rhythm Congress as the paediatric representative in 2022.
His research interests are fetal and childhood arrhythmias, electrophysiology, sudden death and inherited arrhythmias, inherited cardiomyopathies, pacing and defibrillation, non-invasive rhythm monitoring, paediatric and fetal echocardiography, cardiovascular changes during pregnancy, exercise and sport physiology, single ventricle and heart failure, artificial assist device in Fontan circuit, telemedicine, remote arrhythmia monitoring, and medical device innovation. He has had national and international collaboration with Cardiff University, University of Bristol, Birmingham University, Bath University, Toronto University-Hospital for Sick Children, University of Pristina-Kosovo, University of British Columbia- Vancouver BC Children’s Hospital, Istanbul-Ankara-Ordu in Turkey, Lund-Sweden, Amsterdam-Netherland, Wisconsin-USA, Berkeley-USA, Colorado-USA, Maryland, USA, Bangalore-India and Swansea University Faculty of Sport Sciences and Engineering. He is a member of Welsh Cardiovascular Research Network and Alumni of BHF.
He has been commissioned to write a fetal cardiology textbook, and published 4 book chapters, over 70 journal papers, 130 conference presentations as well as giving over 100 invited lectures at national and international meetings. Awards: 2013 Best Teacher Award, Welsh Deanery, Cardiff University. 2013 NHS Innovation Award, Wales. 2014 Clinical Excellence Bronze Award. 2016 BMJ Best Cardiology Team Award, UK. 2018 Clinical Excellence Silver Award. 2022 Clinical Excellence Gold Award.