John Whitaker has been an honorary consultant in cardiology, electrophysiology and devices at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust since 2023. He is also a clinical senior lecturer. He has experience in the assessment and management of heart arrhythmias, with a particular interest in ventricular arrhythmias.

A full list of publications can be found here.

Education and training

• Post-Certificate of Completion of Training Fellowship in clinical cardiac electrophysiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, United States of America, 2020 to 2022
• Cardiology and sub-speciality electrophysiology and devices training, Guy's and St Thomas' and King's College London, 2018 to 2020
• Clinical Research Training Fellowship, Medical Research Council, 2015 to 2018
• Visiting Research Fellowship, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre and Harvard Medical School, United States of America, 2016
• PhD, King's College London Clinical Research Training Fellowship in translational research, biomedical research centre at Guy's and St Thomas', 2014 to 2015
• Cardiology speciality training, south east region London Deanery, 2011 to 2014

Research interests

Assessment of the substrate underlying ventricular arrhythmias, including: new signal processing techniques for intra-cardiac electrograms the assessment of heart structural features predisposing to arrhythmias using 3-dimensional imaging including cardiac CT and MRI.

Awards

• 'Hemodynamically compromising VT assessed under hemodynamic support depends on functional conduction properties of borderzone tissue' among top 6 highest scoring abstracts, European Heart Rhythm Association, 2018
• Essay Prize, Institute of Medical Ethics Foundation Doctors, 2008
• Proxime Accesit for the Margaret Harris prize, awarded to the top 9 graduates from University of Oxford Clinical School, 2006
• Merit for performance in medical finals, University of Oxford Clinical School, 2006
• The Helena McNally prize for presentation at the University of Oxford Clinical School Electives Conference, 2006
• Trinity College graduate progress prize, 2005
• Elected into a Senior Exhibition in recognition of performance in medical (MVST) examinations, Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge, 2002
• Elected into a Senior Exhibition in recognition of performance in MVST examinations, Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge, 2001