Clinical Fellow in Multimodality Cardiovascular ImaginginLeedsinLeedsPUBLISHED WED 19 MAR 2025

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Clinical Fellow in Multimodality Cardiovascular Imaging to join the team at the West Yorkshire Heart Centre, Leeds General Infirmary.

The post will be fixed term 12 Months, commencing August 2025.

This post is ideally suited to individuals who are either post CCT (or equivalent) or approaching CCT, with a subspecialty interest in cardiac imaging and structural interventional TOE. This fellowship is designed to provide the skills required to gain competency in multimodality cardiac imaging including interventional TOE to guide a range of structural interventions.

Leeds General Infirmary is the largest tertiary cardiac centre in the United Kingdom, providing services to a population of 2.8 million in West Yorkshire, with supra-regional services to the broader population of Yorkshire & Humber, constituting 5.8 million. The Cardiac imaging department in Leeds offers all cardiac imaging modalities including Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (CMR), Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (CTCA) and interventional TOE for a range of transcatheter interventions.

The cardiac imaging and structural interventional service at Leeds have a national & international reputation for excellence and innovation. The team is also renowned for togetherness and friendship

Further enquiries are welcome by contacting: Dr Dominik Schlosshan, Sven Plein,

The fellow will work closely with the imaging consultants led by Dr Dominik Schlosshan and Prof Sven Plein.

The fellow is expected to fully participate in all aspects of the multimodality program including cardiac MRI, cardiac CT, advanced echocardiography and interventional TOE. While there will be a focus on structural TOE imaging, training opportunities will be tailored to the successful candidate, taking level of experience and training needs into consideration. The successful candidate has the option to focus on the imaging modality of their interest. There will also be commitments to MDT, patient management, meetings, research and conferences.

The CMR department performs over 2500 clinical CMR , the cardiac CT service led by Radiology performs over 1200 cardiac CT and a large number of gated scans for interventional planning of structural interventions. The Cardiac Ultrasound department performs over 25000 transthoracic echocardiograms, including all specialty techniques such as 3D and strain imaging, more than 2,000 stress echos and in excess of 500 transoesophageal echos (TOE) and interventional TOE for mitral TEER and LAAO.

There are no on call or general cardiology/medical commitments attached to this post. The applicant should be aware that this will mean only basic salary will be paid. There will be opportunities support the StR on call rota if there are gaps, but this should not interfere with the day to day commitments of the fellowship post.

About us

This appointment will be based at the West Yorkshire Heart Centre, Leeds General Infirmary.

Leeds Teaching Hospitals is one of the largest teaching hospital trusts in Europe. It serves tertiary population of 3 million across the West Yorkshire region. There is a team of 33 full or part time Consultant Cardiologists.

We care for people from all over the country as well as the 780,000 residents of Leeds. The Trust has a budget of £1 billion. Our 15,000 staff ensures that every year we treat 1,500,000 people in our 2,000 beds or out-patient settings, comprising 100,000 day cases, 125,000 in-patients, 200,000 A&E visits and 1,050,000 out-patient appointments. We operate from 7 hospitals on 5 sites all linked by the same vision, philosophy and culture to be the best for specialist and integrated care.

Currently the Yorkshire Heart Centre is supported by 12 specialist registrars training in Cardiology, 8 CMT/IMTs, 1 GPVT, 1 FY2 and 4 FY1 trainees. There are often a number of Clinical in post in coronary intervention, devices and structural intervention. There are also research fellows in post in the CMR department.

The Cardiac imaging department in Leeds offers all cardiac imaging modalities including Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (CMR), Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (CTCA) and is led by Dr Dominik Schlosshan, clinical lead for cardiac imaging.

The Cardiac imaging department is supported by 10 imaging consultant cardiologists dedicated to cardiovascular imaging with a broad range of expertise.

The Cardiac Ultrasound department performs over 25000 transthoracic echocardiograms, including all specialty techniques such as 3D and strain imaging, more than 2,000 stress echos and in excess of 500 transoesophageal echos (TOE) and interventional TOE.

The department actively supports a tertiary heart valve disease service with pre procedure imaging and interventional TOE for trans-catheter and surgical valve intervention.

Leeds provides one of the largest valve services in the UK. It offers all streams of a heart valve centre of excellence including valve surveillance, assessment of complex valve disease, surgical and trans-catheter treatment of valve disease within a multidisciplinary team.

Leeds receives region wide referrals for valve disease management, collaborating with interventional colleagues, Cardiac Surgery and Valve teams

Leeds offers one of the largest trans-catheter aortic valve implant (TAVI) programs in the UK with > 500 TAVI implants annually. There is a growing mitral intervention program and Leeds is a commissioned regional centre for transcatheter edge to edge repair (TEER) performing around 50 TEER procedures annually.

There is also interventional TOE support for LAA closure, paravalvar leak closures, post MI ventricular septal defect closures, TAVI in MVR and percutaneous transvenous mitral commissurotomy (PTMC).

The department actively participates in valve multidisciplinary meetings, peri-operative TOE and after care in patients with valve disease. There is also a highly regarded congenital and adult congenital echo service that supports PFO and ASD closures

Leeds has a strong record of innovation and is involved in several multinational clinical trials in trans-catheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR) and tricuspid valve replacement.

The CMR department is led by Prof Plein a BSCMR accredited CMR laboratories and performs over 2,500 clinical CMR scans covering all indications from congenital to stress CMR. The department uses two state of the art Philips MRI scanners (1.5 Ingenia and 3 Tesla Achieva) and a 3T Siemens scanner.

The Cardiac CT service is led by Radiology with Cardiology participation and uses a Siemens Force scanner performing over 1200 CT coronary angiograms and a large number of gated scans for interventional planning of structural interventions. CT images are analysed using a dedicated software (3Mensio).

There are active Teaching and Research links with the Leeds School of Medicine and the University of Leeds, both well situated on adjacent sites. The CMR research group has a world leading reputation for its clinical research including large single and multi-centre imaging trials and currently employs 8 clinical fellows.

The post is fixed term for 10 Months.