THE HEART
Investigation and Management
&
Athletic HEART Screening and Fitness Assessment
DR JOHN SOMAUROO
MB BS BMedSci(Hons) FRCP(Lond) FRCP(Edin) FFSEM
EDUCATION
Dr John Somauroo was educated at Kings College School, Taunton, Somerset.
He was awarded two scholarships to Kings College at the ages of 11 and 14. Having passed 11 O levels a year early, he subsequently went on to pass 3 A levels and an S level. He captained school sides for rugby and hockey.
TRAINING
Dr John Somauroo gained a place at University of Nottingham Medical School in 1984 and graduated
with a Bachelor of Medical Science degree in Human Anatomy in 1987, then Medical and Surgical degrees in 1989. He published his first paper in Immunology in 1989.
Dr John Somauroo continued his training in Medicine and Cardiology at Derriford Hospital Plymouth and Glenfield Hospital Leicester then the Mersey Cardiology Rotation. At the Cardiothoracic Centre Liverpool he published research on cardiac screening of youth professional footballers and the largest ever long term follow up of permanent pacemakers.
CONSULTANT CARDIOLOGIST
Dr John Somauroo was appointed Consultant Cardiologist
and Physician in General Internal Medicine at the Countess of Chester Hospital in 2000. He was subsequently appointed Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians London in 2004 and Fellow of the Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine in 2008 and Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh in 2008.
Dr John Somauroo has both General Medical & Cardiology in-patient beds and covers the Coronary Care Unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital. He performs cardiac investigations including 24 hour tapes, exercise-testing, echocardiography, tilt-table testing, invasive coronary angiography and implants permanent pacemakers. He specialises in stress echocardiography (evaluating coronary artery disease and heart failure) and transoesophageal echocardiography (assessing holes in the heart and valves before surgery).
Dr John Somauroo is chairman of the Cheshire and South Wirral Regional Heart Failure Committee and lectures nationally (including at the Royal College of Physicians, London) on management of heart failure. He is a University Senior Lecturer and Honorary Patron of The Sports Medicine Society and regularly lectures on coronary artery disease, screening of athletes for inherited diseases (cardiomyopathies and channelopathies), arrhythmias and prevention of sudden cardiac death. He is a member of the Cheshire and Merseyside Cardiac Network and is one of the national Cardiologists working with CRY (Cardiac Risk in the Young).
He has ongoing research programmes into heart failure, sudden cardiac death & resuscitation, athletic heart syndrome & fitness assessment and diabetes in acute myocardial infarction. View Research Papers
Dr John Somauroo has a consulting room at the Grosvenor Nuffield Hospital Chester and is one of the national cardiac specialists working with ExtraLife.
In his spare time Dr John Somauroo is a Rugby Union Coach.
Home Investigation and Management Dr John Somauroo
Consultant Cardiologist
Physician in General Medicine
Honorary University Lecturer
Nuffield Hospital Grosvenor (Chester)
University of Chester - Honorary Lecturer
Sports Medicine Society - Honorary Patron
Royal College of Physicians London - Fellow
Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh - Fellow
Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine - Fellow
Cheshire and Merseyside Cardiac Network
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