Professor Steffen Petersen

Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine
Centre: Advanced Cardiovascular Imaging
Email: s.e.petersen@qmul.ac.ukTwitter: @s_e_petersen
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ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4622-5160
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Steffen Petersen is a Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary University of London and a Consultant Cardiologist at Barts Heart Centre, Barts Health NHS Trust. He is Director (interim) for the BHF Data Science Centre. He is President of the European Society of Cardiology's (ESC) European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI). He holds an MBCHB and MDRES equivalent (Dr med.) from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany, a DPHIL (OXON) from the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Oxford, an MPH from Harvard School of Public Health and an MSc from the London School of Economics. He is level 3 certified for cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR). He has been actively involved in cardiovascular magnetic resonance since 1998 and he reports over 1000 cardiac adult MRI scans each year.
Memberships and awards
• Fellow of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (FSCMR)
• Fellow of the European Society of Cardiovascular Imaging (FEACVI)
• Fellow of the Japanese Circulation Society (FJCS)
• Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA)
• Fellow of Royal College of Physicians (FRCP)
• Fellow of the American College of Cardiology (FACC)
• Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology (FESC)
• Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute
Research
Group members
Centre leadership:
- Centre lead and Principal Investigator: Steffen E Petersen, Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine
- Deputy Centre lead and Principal Investigator: Francesca Pugliese, Reader
Core staff:
- Centre and events manager: Jane Batchelor
- Assistant Director - Health and Imaging Informatics: Aaron Lee
- Senior Statistician and Data Scientist: Ahmed Salih
Senior (postdoc) researchers (* if honorary):
Mohammed Khanji* (Reader); Guy Lloyd* (Senior Clinical Lecturer); Sanjeev Bhattacharyya* (Senior Clinical Lecturer); Dr Magnus T. Jensen* (Senior Clinical Lecturer, based in Copenhagen); Dr Jose Vargas* (Senior Clinical Lecturer, based in Washington DC); Marc Miquel* (Senior Lecturer); Nay Aung (NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer); Zahra Raisi-Estabragh (NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer); Dr Musa Abdulkareem*, Postdoc (based in Leicester); Liliana Szabo (Postdoc)
PhD students (^ if clinical):
Mihir Sanghvi^; Vijay Shyam Sundar^; Sucharitha Chadalavada^; Hafiz Naderi^; James Malcolmson; Bunny Saberwal^; Elisa Rauseo^; Shahid Karim^; Kerrick Hesse^; Sveeta Badiani; Nikhil Ahluwalia^; Celeste McCracken (registered at University of Oxford); Jawza Aldakhil
Junior researchers (*if honorary):
Dorina Condurache; Gracia Andriamiadana; Ross Thomson (NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow); Adil Mahmood (NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow)
Summary
Professor Petersen’s research typically involves cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) acquired in clinical or research settings and forms an important component of research work in cardiovascular epidemiology, non-invasive (imaging) biomarker development and assessing the value of cardiac imaging in prevention, diagnosis, risk assessment and management of cardiovascular diseases. He pioneered many artificial intelligence applications in cardiovascular imaging in multi-disciplinary collaborations. Most of the research data comes from large-scale population studies with cardiac imaging (e.g. UK Biobank, Petersen is co-lead for cardiac imaging), clinical registries and cohorts (Petersen is Principal and Chief Investigator of the Barts BioResource) and electronic health care records and other digital healthcare data.
Publications
Relevant metrics are listed on Google Scholar.
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Sanghvi M, Nicholls HL, Petersen SE et al. (2025). A NOVEL SARCOPENIC OBESITY PHENOTYPE DERIVED FROM CARDIAC IMAGING PREDICTS CARDIOVASCULAR OUTCOMES AND GENOME-WIDE ANALYSIS HIGHLIGHTS CARDIAC GENES. nameOfConference
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Dangas K, Wahome E, Chan K et al. (2025). QUANTIFICATION OF EPICARDIAL ADIPOSE TISSUE VOLUME ON CARDIAC CT IS ASSOCIATED WITH ALL-CAUSE MORTALITY IN PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC COMORBIDITIES. nameOfConference
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Dangas K, Wahome E, Chan K et al. (2025). U-SHAPED ASSOCIATION BETWEEN EPICARDIAL ADIPOSE TISSUE VOLUME AND CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY IN A POPULATION OF 80,495. nameOfConference
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Feng F, Kennelly J, Xiong Z et al. (2025). Automatic bi-atrial segmentation and biomarker extraction from late gadolinium-enhanced MRI using deep learning. nameOfConference
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Muraru D, Petersen SE, Delgado V (2025). EuroEcho-Imaging 2024: a global forum for echocardiography. nameOfConference
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Davidson SM, Andreadou I, Antoniades C et al. (2025). Opportunities and challenges for the use of human samples in translational cardiovascular research: a scientific statement of the ESC Working Group on Cellular Biology of the Heart, the ESC Working Group on Cardiovascular Surgery, the ESC Council on Basic Cardiovascular Science, the ESC Scientists of Tomorrow, the European Association of Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions of the ESC, and the Heart Failure Association of the ESC. nameOfConference
DOI: 10.1093/cvr/cvaf023
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Szabo L, Cooper J, Condurache D-G et al. (2025). Cardiovascular disease burden and risk factor management in cancer survivors: insights into a multiethnic, socioeconomically deprived urban population. nameOfConference
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Salih AM, Condurache D-G, D'Angelo S et al. (2025). Bone mineral density and cardiovascular diseases: a two-sample Mendelian randomization study. nameOfConference
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Sade LE, Faletra FF, Pontone G et al. (2025). The role of multi-modality imaging for the assessment of left atrium and left atrial appendage: a clinical consensus statement of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI), European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA) of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). nameOfConference
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Casas G, Ródenas-Alesina E, Limeres J et al. (2025). Deterioro de la fracción de eyección del ventrículo izquierdo y eventos cardiovasculares en la miocardiopatía con excesiva trabeculación: hacia la medicina de precisión. nameOfConference
Sponsors
- Barts Charity
- Medical College of Saint Bartholomew’s Hospital Trust
- British Heart Foundation (BHF)
- National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR)
- Medical Research Council
Collaborators
Internal
- Patricia B Munroe (WHRI)
- Greg Slabaugh (EECS, DERI)
External
- Stefan Neubauer and colleagues (Oxford)
- Karim Lekadir and colleagues (Barcelona)
- Nick Harvey (Southampton)
- Jose Vargas (Washington DC)
- Magnus T Jensen (Copenhagen)
Commercial
- Circle Cardiovascular Imaging, Inc.(Calgary, Canada)
- Neosoft
- Siemens
- NVIDIA
News
- Risk of heart disease after cancer, July 2023 - Heart BMJ (Podcast)
- Raisi-Estabragh Z, Cooper J, McCracken C, et al Incident cardiovascular events and imaging phenotypes in UK Biobank participants with past cancer Heart 2023;109:1007-1015, April 2023 - Featured in 45 news outlets, including The Guardian
- Raisi-Estabragh Z, Cooper J, Salih A, et al Cardiovascular disease and mortality sequelae of COVID-19 in the UK Biobank, Heart 2023;109:119-126, October 2022- Featured in 52 news outlets, including Forbes magazine
- People who caught mild Covid had increased risk of blood clots, British study finds, October 2022 - CNBC
- Raisi-Estabragh Z, Kobo O, Elbadawi A, et al. Differential Patterns and Outcomes of 20.6 Million Cardiovascular Emergency Department Encounters for Men and Women in the United States. J Am Heart Assoc. 2022;11(19):e026432, September 2022 - Featured in 52 news outlets, including Medscape and King's Fund
- Szabo L, McCracken C, Cooper J, Rider OJ, Vago H, Merkely B, Harvey NC, Neubauer S, Petersen SE, Raisi-Estabragh Z. The role of obesity-related cardiovascular remodelling in mediating incident cardiovascular outcomes: a population-based observational study. Eur Heart J Cardiovasc Imaging. 2023;24(7):921-929, June 2022 - Daily Mail and the British Heart Foundation.
- Cannabis use linked to heart structure changes, December 2019 - The Sun, The Daily Telegraph, dailymail.co.uk
- CMR phenotypes, September 2019 - Sambad English, W3 Live News, Orissa Post, docwire, Latestly, New Kerala, ENGLEMED Health News, News Reach, Times Now, The Health Site, Daily World, News Medical (Life Sciences), F3 News, Business Standard, Outlook, Medical Xpress, Daily Hunt, Parallel State, Med India, You and I, Tech Explorist
- Coffee and aortic stiffness, June 2019 - The Guardian, Metro, Medical News Today, The National, ITV News, The Telegraph, CNN Health, Medscape, New York Post, Mirror, Independent, News Letter, Sci-News, LADbible, Express, The Scotsman
- Air pollution linked to changes in heart structure, August 2018 - The Guardian
Teaching
- Prof Petersen has vast experience in successful supervision of clinical and non-clinical PhD students and help shape careers.
- Prof Petersen co-leads the clinical trials and regulatory affairs module (BMD378)
- Prof Petersen supervises student selected components (SSC) related to cardiology and supports multi-disciplinary students in gaining research experiences in his team.
- Prof Petersen is an international leader in cardiovascular magnetic resonance and teaches at many national and international courses and conferences
- Prof Petersen co-leads the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI) cardiovascular magnetic resonance exam prep course
- Prof Petersen as President of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI) sets the strategy and standards and contributes to the delivery of multi-modality cardiac imaging worldwide
- Professor Petersen co-edited the popular EACVI Textbook of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance textbook
DataCamp
DataCamp offers online tutorials and courses to help students learn R and Python for data science. You can try their free courses here:
- Learn R with Introduction to R
- Learn Python with Intro to Python for Data Science
Disclosures
- Professor Petersen provides consultancy to Circle Cardiovascular Imaging, Inc., Calgary, Alberta, Canada.