Echocardiography

Paul Leeson studied medicine at St. Andrews and Cambridge before moving to Oxford for specialist training in cardiology. His sub-specialty interest is in cardiovascular imaging. While in Cambridge he completed an MB/PHD programme and, during early clinical training undertook post-doctoral research at University College London. He is now a British Heart Foundation Fellow at the University of Oxford with a clinical research programme that uses ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging to study the development of cardiovascular disease. He is co-author of three Oxford Specialist Handbooks in Cardiology covering echocardiography, pacing and angiography. Dr. Mitchell is Consultant Cardiologist in Jersey, Channel Islands and Honorary Consultant Cardiologist at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford. Dr. Mitchell has special interests in non-invasive imaging, with particular expertise in transoesophageal and intracardiac echocardiography. His other interests include the role of device therapy for arrythmia management. Dr. Mitchell is a Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology (FESC). Dr. Harald Becher is a Consultant Cardiologist at the John Radcliffe Hospital, specialising in echocardiograms. Dr. Becher is also a professor of Cardiac Ultrasound for the University of Oxford.

1. Ultrasound; 2. Transthoracic: Examination; 3. Transthoracic: Anatomy and Pathology; 4. Transoesophaageal: Examination; 5. Transoesophageal: Anatomy and Pathology; 6. Stress Echocardiography; 7. Reporting and normal ranges