James R. Bentham PhD, MA, BM BCh, DPhil

Dr. Jamie Bentham is a Consultant Cardiologist accredited in the practice of congenital heart disease. He trained in medicine at the University of Oxford where he also completed his doctoral research in cardiovascular genetics. He has worked at many heart centers including Liverpool, Oxford and Great Ormond Street before moving to complete an intervention fellowship in Leeds and Boston Children’s, USA. Jamie took up a consultant post in intervention cardiology in Leeds in 2014 where he is an associate professor. He cares for patients with pediatric and adult congenital heart disease. Dr. Jamie Bentham provides a full range of diagnostic cardiac services for children. He also spends half of his time caring for adult patients with known or more recently found to have an underlying congenital heart problem.

Alongside diagnostic services including echocardiography Jamie’s main area of expertise is in cardiac catheterization in congenital heart disease. He now leads one of the largest congenital catheter programs in the UK and is one of the largest UK operators. These procedures allow patients to be treated for many different heart problems without the need for an open-heart operation. Catheter work includes atrial septal defect and patent foramen ovule closure as well as diagnostic and valve work.