Francisco Leyva-leon MBChB, MD, FRCP, FACC

Dr. Francisco Leyva-Leon, MD, FRCP, FACC, is a Professor of Cardiology at the Aston Medical School. He is the Clinical Director of Aston Medical Research Institute. He is also a Consultant Cardiologist at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust, based at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital.

His clinical expertise is in cardiac device therapy (cardiac resynchronization therapy, pacemakers, implantable cardioverter defibrillators), heart failure, and cardiomyopathies. He also specializes in cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging (cardiac MRI). He is the past President of the British Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (BSCMR). He 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), and past Chair of the Health Economics Group and Advocacy Chair of the European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA).