​Professor Francisco Leyva MD, FRCP, FACC

Professor of Cardiology, Consultant Cardiologist

Birmingham cardiologist, heart failure, resynchronization

 

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    About Professor Francisco Leyva

    birmingham cardiologist, birmingham heart failure, cardiac resynchronisation therapy, ICD

    Professor Francisco Leyva qualified in 1987 from the University of Manchester. He trained at the Royal Brompton and Harefield hospitals and is now a Consultant Cardiologist at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, and Professor of Cardiology at Aston University Medical School. He consults privately at Spire Little Aston Hospital and Sutton Medical Consulting in Sutton Coldfield, and The Priory Hospital in Birmingham.

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    His clinical expertise is in  cardiac device therapy (cardiac resynchronisation therapy, pacemakers, implantable cardioverter defibrillators), heart failure and cardiomyopathies. He also specialises in cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging (cardiac MRI) and cardiac computed tomography (cardiac CT). He is past President of the British Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (BSCMR) and has been a clinical advisor to the National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) on the national guidelines for Heart Failure, Cardiac Devices and Drug Therapy. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP), the American College of Cardiology (FACC), Chair of the Health Economics Group and Advocacy Chair of the European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA). His research interests include: cardiac devices therapy (cardiac resynchronisation therapy, pacemakers and defibrillators), cardiomyopathies and heart failure;  Cardiovascular Photonics; and, Clinical Outcomes Research. These research programmes are undertaken at  Aston University and at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham.

    American College of Cardiology

    European Society of Cardiology Conference 2014

    Cardiology Update, London 2016

    BBC report: implantation of a leadless pacemaker

    Prof Leyva and cardiac resynchronization therapy in 2003

    Conference on leadless pacemakers, London 2015

    Spanish Society of Cardiology 2017

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    ​Spire Little Aston Hospital

    Little Aston Hall Drive 

    Sutton Coldfield B74 3UP


    Appointments: 0121 580 7151

    Sutton Medical Consulting

    ​233 Tamworth Road

    Sutton Coldfield B75 6DX
    

    Appointments: 0121 308 7774​

     

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    The Priory Hospital

    Edgbaston

    Birmingham B5 7UG

    

    Appointments:  0121 440 2323​

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