EDUCATION

TRAINING

CONSULTANT CARDIOLOGIST

Prof 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.

Prof 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).

Prof 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 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.

PROFESSORSHIP

Prof John Somauroo was awarded an Honorary Professorship to the University of Chester in Cardiovascular, Sports and Exercise Medicine in 2010 in recognition for his ongoing lecturing and research programmes at the University. He lectures on screening for sudden cardiac death and the effects of training on the heart nationally and internationally.

He has ongoing research programmes at the University of Chester and the Research Institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences (RISES) at Liverpool John Moores University. He continues to research physiological versus pathological changes in athletes’ hearts. Current research includes effects of exercise on ultra-endurance runners, footballers and rugby players. His other research programmes include heart failure, sudden cardiac death & resuscitation.

SPORTS CARDIOLOGIST

Prof John Somauroo  is involved in the management of players from Football Premier League clubs and is also the Cardiologist to Sale Sharks Rugby Club.

Prof John Somauroo is one of the Cardiologists working with CRY (Cardiac Risk in the Young). He has been invited to meetings to discuss screening and preventing sudden cardiac death at Downing Street and The House of Commons (pictured here with MP Christine Russell in The Terrace Marquee, Westminster in 2009).

He is on the Rugby Football Union Medical Advisory Panel at Twikenham which has set up the national screening of all English Premiership Rugby Union players. Players with cardiac problems are referred to either Prof Sanjay Sharma at St Georges Hospital, London or Prof Somauroo at the Countess of Chester Hospital.

In his spare time he is a Rugby Football Union coach.

Prof John Somauroo has a  consulting room at the Grosvenor Nuffield Hospital Chester.

Home       Investigation and Management         Sudden Death in Athletes        Contact