Prithwish Banerjee MBBS, MD, FRCP, FESC

Dr. Prithwish Banerjee is a Consultant Cardiologist at the University Hospital Coventry & Warwickshire. His research interests are Cardiology, Echocardiography, Transesophageal Echocardiography, Cardiac Imaging, Chronic Heart Failure, Atherosclerosis, Cardiac Echocardiography, Cardiovascular Diseases, Pulmonary Hypertension, Myocardial Fatigue.

Professor Banerjee trained in cardiology in the Yorkshire (Leeds) Deanery and obtained his accreditation in Cardiology and General Internal Medicine in 2004. He was the network lead for heart failure for the Coventry & Warwickshire Cardiovascular Network before it was dissolved in 2013. In 2007 he became an Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Warwick Medical School, Research Lead in cardiology in his hospital in 2011, Cardiovascular Lead for the NIHR West Midlands Clinical Research Network (CRN), and Chair for the Midlands Heart Failure Group in 2012 and continues to hold all these positions. He was appointed Honorary Professor of Cardiology by Coventry University in May 2017. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and the European Society of Cardiology.

Since Professor Banerjee's arrival in Coventry, he has transformed the heart failure service in his area into a very high-quality service with pioneering services such as heart failure intravenous diuretic and IV iron daycare service in the hospital, ultrafiltration for refractory fluid overload and an easily accessible community heart failure service including a large clinic and home visits by himself if needed.

Professor Banerjee heads a team of 2 heart failure cardiologists and 8 heart failure specialist nurses. He has a particular interest in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFPEF) and runs a dedicated weekly clinic for these difficult patients. He also has special expertise in cardiorenal syndrome patients (those with heart and kidney disease) and has been running a joint monthly cardiorenal clinic with a renal physician for almost 3 years.