Professional profile
Specialty: General Cardiology
Sub-Specialty: Cardiac Imaging and Interventional Cardiology
NHS Hospital Positions:
Chief of Service, Cardiovascular Medicine, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Consultant Cardiologist and Honorary Senior Lecturer, International Centre for Circulatory Health, St Mary’s Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Clinical Lead and Consultant Cardiologist, Department of Cardiology, Queen Mary’s Hospital, Roehampton
Clinical Interests:
Dr Mayet’s clinical interests are in the assessment of chest pain, shortness of breath, the cardiovascular evaluation of patients with high blood pressure, the assessment of the heart in pregnancy and the assessment of the heart in athletes. Dr Mayet has a specialist interest in cardiac imaging and in particular echocardiography. He has been clinical lead in echocardiography at St Mary’s Hospital since 2000 and has lead the development of several highly specialised echocardiographic services. These include stress echocardiography, dyssynchrony assessment, transoesophageal echocardiography, 3D echocardiography and contrast echocardiography.
Education and Training:
Dr Mayet studied undergraduate medicine at the University of Dundee between 1984 and 1989 and completed his postgraduate basic medical training in Dundee. He completed a research fellowship in Cardiovascular Medicine at St Mary’s Hospital and Imperial College in 1994 and was awarded an MBA at the Edinburgh Business School in 1997. He trained in Clinical Cardiology at St Mary’s Hospital and The Royal Brompton Hospital between 1994 and 2000.
Consultant Appointments:
Dr Mayet was appointed Consultant Cardiologist at St Mary’s Hospital and Honorary Senior Lecturer at Imperial College in 2000 and following the merger of St Mary’s, Hammersmith and Charing Cross Hospitals with Imperial College was appointed Chief of Service for Cardiovascular Medicine for Imperial College NHS Trust in 2008.
Hospital and Trust activities
NHS Hospital Positions:
Chief of Service, Cardiovascular Medicine, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Clinical Lead and Consultant Cardiologist, Department of Cardiology, Queen Mary’s Hospital, Roehampton
Other contributions to the NHS
Dr Mayet sat on the Council of the British Society of Echocardiography and was Chair of its Accreditation Committee until 2008. He is Deputy Chair of the North Thames West Cardiology Training Committee and sits on the Royal Society of Medicine, Cardiology Section Council. He was a British Cardiac Society Reviewer of the European Society Cardiology Guideline on Stable Angina and British Cardiac Society Expert Advisor to the NICE Guideline Group assessing the Management of Chest Pain in 2007. He sat on the Royal College of Physicians Committee on Cardiology 1999-2006, was a member of the expert group reviewing the NCEPOD Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Study 2003-5 and was the Royal College of Physicians / British Cardiac Society representative on National Heart Forum between 2003-6. He was invited to organise the Royal College of Physicians of London National Training Day on “Acute Coronary Syndromes” in 2005.
Professional affiliations and memberships
- Fellow of the European Sociey of Cardiology
- Fellow of the American College of Cardiology
Research interests
Research interests:
Dr Mayet research interests are in the clinical application of new technologies, which allow the development of new treatments for the heart. Specifically he has interests in the physiology of coronary flow and blood pressure as well as the factors associated with the development of atherosclerosis. He has a longstanding interest in cardiac structural and functional variations in health and disease, particularly in hypertension and athletic training. He also has an interest in ethnic variations in cardiovascular disease. He is a member of the cardiovascular population sciences team at Imperial College, providing cardiovascular imaging expertise to the design of large studies, including multi-centre collaborations.
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