Personal Profile
Dr Nigel Lewis is an established consultant cardiologist in the NHS and is a specialist in Heart failure, Pacing and Cardiac Implantable Devices and Inherited Cardiac Conditions.
He qualified from the University of Manchester in 2000 and completed his medical training in London and Sydney, Australia. He undertook his Cardiology specialist training at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. Further to this he undertook a Cardiomyopathy fellowship with Professor Elliott at The Heart hospital, London and a Device and Inherited Cardiac Conditions fellowship with Professor Kalman in Melbourne, Australia.
He was appointed as a Consultant Cardiologist at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in 2014. He was then invited to become a fellowship to the Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh in 2015. He has brought innovation and new techniques in pacing and complex devices to the Sheffield, including leadless pacing and new techniques to implant sub-cutaneous defibrillators and cardiac resynchronising pacing and lead service development of device extraction in South Yorkshire. He provides highly specialised care to patients throughout South Yorkshire with familial cardiac disease, undertaking a comprehensive assessment of the diagnosis and risk and performs genetic testing where appropriate. He has a wealth of experience in diagnosing and managing patients with heart failure in both inpatient and outpatient settings. He has a passionate interest in heart muscle disease and has developed services in inflammatory and infiltrative conditions.
Dr Lewis has a strong academic background and completed a PhD at the University of Leeds in Heart Failure and exercise physiology. He was successfully awarded a British Heart Foundation Fellowship grant and undertook a project looking at the effects of Pregnancy and Obesity on the cardiovascular system. He is the Cardiac Rhythm Management research lead at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals and an Honorary lecturer at the University of Sheffield. He is a principal investigator for numerous clinical trials and has multiple publications and presented at numerous national and international meetings.
He is an accredited appraiser of his colleagues and is passionate about education and development. He supervises and teaches many junior colleagues and health care professionals. He has recently developed a national specialist fellowship post in Sheffield to train senior cardiology trainees in his specialist field.
Cardiovascular disease accounts for more than 25% of all deaths in the UK and can manifest in many ways, such as chest pain, breathlessness, palpitations, dizziness and blackouts. It is essential to identify if individuals have underlying structural heart problems and or rhythm disturbance that needs treatment. Dr Lewis will provide a thorough and personalised service and offer up to date and evidence based treatment if necessary.
Clinical Interests
- Heart Failure and Cardiomyopathy
- Valvular Heart Disease
- Arrhythmia risk
- Pacing and complex Devices
- Inherited Cardiac Conditions and Cardiac Genetics
- General Cardiology
Professional Memberships
- British Cardiovascular Society
- British Heart Rhythm Society
- European Society of Cardiology
- Association of Inherited Cardiac Conditions
