Biography
Professor Stuart Rosen is a consultant cardiologist at Royal Brompton Hospital, where he treats private and NHS patients.
Professor Rosen received his medical undergraduate education at Pembroke College, Cambridge and Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School. His specialist cardiology training was at Charing Cross, Hammersmith and St Mary’s hospitals.
Professor Stuart Rosen is a general adult cardiologist. He has specialist expertise in treating:
- heart failure
- cardio-oncology
- syncope (fainting)
- difficult hypertension.
His technical skills include:
- transoesophageal echocardiography
- stress echo
- tilt testing and autonomic assessment
- ultrafiltration for decompensated heart failure.
Professor Rosen set up the UK’s first cardio-oncology unit at Royal Brompton Hospital with Dr Alexander Lyon and Dr Rakesh Sharma. The unit provides bespoke care for patients at risk of cardiotoxicity or who have developed cardiac problems as a consequence of their anti-cancer treatment.
Research interests
Professor Stuart Rosen has spent several years in cardiovascular research, funded by the Medical Research Council and the British Heart Foundation. His programme of translational research is focused on the:
- mechanisms of heart injury in cancer patients
- role of cardiac autonomic dysfunction in the pathophysiology of cardiac disease
- cardiac disease in patients undergoing psychiatric care
- origins of cardiac pain (he is a member of an international task force on complex cardiac pain syndromes.
Publications
Professor Stuart Rosen has written more than 90 peer-reviewed papers, plus review articles, editorials, abstracts, and nine book chapters.
He authored the book Cardiology: self-assessment colour review of cardiology published by CRC Press.
Teaching
Professor Rosen is a professor of practice (cardiology) at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College and honorary adjunct professor of cardiovascular medicine and sciences, King's College, London. He has twice been awarded a prize for excellence in clinical teaching by the Imperial Faculty of Medicine. Professor Rosen has extensive teaching commitments in medicine, cardiology, ethics and law for medical undergraduates. He supervises postgraduate, MD and PhD students.
He has certification from the Royal College of Physicians of London as a physician educator. At Ealing Hospital, Professor Rosen set up and directed the nationally acclaimed Hands-On Echo Course.
Furthermore, Professor Rosen is a regular speaker at national and international meetings, where he speaks on topics such as cardiac pain, heart failure, neurocardiology and cardio-oncology.
Professor Rosen is currently president of the British Cardio-Oncology Society.
