Area of expertise: heart catheterisation and adult congenital heart disease
Languages spoken: English, Urdu, Punjabi
Biography
Shakeel Qureshi trained in children's heart services (paediatric cardiology) at Harefield, Guy's and Liverpool Hospitals. He was a consultant at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in 1987. He became a consultant paediatric cardiologist and senior lecturer at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust in 1988.
He is involved with earthquake relief work in Kashmir, charity fundraising for building houses in Kashmir and Indonesia and other medical charity missions. He is also on the Chain of Hope medical board.
- Interventional paediatric cardiology (keyhole surgery techniques)
- Adult congenital heart disease
- Developing or evaluating devices for treating congenital heart defects
- Involved in evaluating a new percutaneous pulmonary valve
- Co-inventor of Tyshak balloon
- Sitara-e-Imtiaz (one of the highest civil awards) by the Pakistan Government for services to medicine, 2004
- PICS Outstanding Achievement award (judged by the profession), Chicago, 2004