About Dr Kalyar
Your Consultant Cardiologist
Dr Imtiaz Ali Kalyar is a Consultant Interventional Cardiologist with 16 years of
interventional cardiology experience and over 9 years at full consultant level across
NHS Trusts in the United Kingdom. He qualified MBBS from Liaquat Medical College,
Pakistan, and subsequently trained in Ireland and the UK, obtaining MRCP (London)
and Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians, London (FRCP). He holds dual
Specialist Registration with the Irish Medical Council and the UK General Medical Council.
He completed his Advanced Interventional Cardiology Fellowship at Queen Alexandra
Hospital, Portsmouth — one of the UK's highest-volume cardiac centres — followed
by consultant posts at East Sussex NHS Trust (Conquest Hospital, Hastings) and
William Harvey Hospital, Ashford. He has personally performed 1,459 percutaneous
coronary interventions (PCIs) as first operator, including 406 Primary PCIs, and is
an independent operator in CTO, Rotational Atherectomy, Intravascular Lithotripsy
(IVL), IVUS, FFR, iFR and OCT.
Dr Kalyar served as Principal Investigator for the SENIOR-RITA Trial, published in
the New England Journal of Medicine in September 2024, as well as the BLADE and DUAL
ACS Trials. In private practice, he provides expert outpatient assessment for chest
pain, hypertension, arrhythmia, palpitations, heart failure and cardiovascular risk,
working in close collaboration with Dr Kazmi's endocrinology service for patients
with combined cardiometabolic conditions.
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MBBS — Liaquat Medical College, Hyderabad, Pakistan (1999)
Primary medical qualification; internship in Medicine and Surgery at Liaquat Medical College Hospital
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MRCP (London, UK)
Membership of the Royal College of Physicians, London
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FRCP (London, UK)
Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians, London — recognising distinction in cardiology and clinical medicine
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Advanced Interventional Fellowship — Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth (2015–2016)
High-volume UK cardiac centre; 334 PCIs as first operator under supervision including 124 Primary PCIs
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Principal Investigator — SENIOR-RITA Trial (NEJM, September 2024)
Published in the world's leading medical journal; also PI for BLADE and DUAL ACS Trials
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1,459 PCIs as First Operator — Including 406 Primary PCIs, CTO, RA, IVL, IVUS, FFR, OCT
Extensive experience in complex coronary revascularisation and intracoronary imaging
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Specialist Register — Ireland (IMC: 102093) & UK (GMC: 6082421)
Dual registration with the Irish Medical Council and the UK General Medical Council
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Sunday Clinics — Suite 5, Vista Primary Care, Naas
Appointments available Sundays 9am–5pm for patients across Kildare and Leinster
