Cardiology | James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

The Cardiology Department provides comprehensive inpatient and some outpatient services, carrying out a wide range of diagnostic tests and complex treatments on adults with heart disease.

Inpatient services are provided by Acute Cardiac Unit (ACU) with nine cardiac monitoring beds arranged in two bays and a separate specialised procedure room with monitoring equipment, which manages emergency cases that present to the hospital.

Ward 2 is a general cardiac ward, often used as a step-down from ACU, or direct admission for cardiac conditions such as heart failure and heart rhythm disorders from the Emergency wards.

We deal with all conditions affecting the heart, including coronary artery disease (the cause of angina and heart attacks), heart valve disease, heart rhythm disturbances (arrhythmias), heart muscle problems (e.g. heart failure) and high blood pressure (hypertension).

If more specialist care is required, patients may be transferred to Norwich or other Centres.

Our team

Currently we have the following Cardiology Consultants (Cardiologists) within the trust:

Dr Sreekumar Sulfi

Dr Sunil Nair

Specialities:

Adult cardiac disease
Inherited heart muscle disease (hypertrophic cardiomyopathy)
Non-invasive cardiac imaging techniques:
Echocardiography
Cardiac CT
Cardiac MRI

Experience:

I studied medicine at Guys and St Thomas’s Hospitals and undertook cardiology training at a number of London hospitals. I was appointed as a consultant cardiologist at the Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital & James Paget University Hospital to bring my experience in cardiac imaging and the management of cardiomyopathies to the region. Since my move to the NNUH I have now set up a dedicated clinic for the assessment and management of patients with, or at risk of developing heart muscle diseases, such as hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Additionally I have developed and expanded the non-invasive cardiac imaging departments at both NNUH and James Paget University Hospital with new services such as stress echo at JPUH and stress MRI at NNUH. Cardiac CT at JPUH is in the pipeline for later this year

Additionally I have developed and expanded the non-invasive cardiac imaging departments across both hospitals with new stress echo and cardiac CT services at JPUH and a new stress MRI service at NNUH.

Additional information:

Membership of:

Royal College of Physicians
British Cardiac Society
British Society of Echocadiography
European Association of Echocardiography
British Society of Cardiac Imaging
Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance

Dr Nair is our Consultant Cardiologist with a special interest in cardiac imaging and cardiomyopathy and runs our Dobutamine stress echocardiogram service. He will soon be commencing CT coronary angiography. He is at the James Paget University Hospital on a Wednesday and Thursday.

Secretary to Dr Nair - Lynette Shuckford

Telephone: (01493) 453772 Email: lynette.shuckford@jpaget.nhs.uk

Dr Marianna Stamatelatou

Dr Ioannis Merinopoulos

Dr Omar Abdul-Samad

Our consultants are supported by a team of dedicated staff including Junior and Staff Doctors, Cardiac Physiologists, Cardiographers, Nurses, Radiographers and Secretarial and Administrative staff.

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Patient information leaflets - please click here and choose the Cardiology drop down

Opening times

Telephone

Location

The British Heart Foundation

Resources and support for those with heart conditions

Cardiomyopathy UK

The heart muscle charity

Pumping Marvellous

The heart failure charity