Alain Fraisse MD, PhD

Professor Alain Fraisse is a consultant pediatric cardiologist who treats both adults and children. He is also the director of pediatric cardiology at Royal Brompton and Harefield hospitals and is a visiting professor at Imperial College London.

He completed his medical studies in France, at Marseille University Hospital (part of Aix-Marseille University), where he also received his master's in physiology and a complementary fellowship in intensive care at the University of the Mediterranean, Marseille.

Then he spent time in the USA as a clinical and research fellow at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Following that, he returned to Marseille University Hospital, where he completed his Ph.D. in respiratory physiology.

For 14 years, he was the director of the pediatric cardiology unit at La Timone Hospital in Marseille, France.

Professor Alain Fraissé joined Royal Brompton and Harefield hospitals in 2014, where he treats both private and NHS patients.