Charles Knight (cardiologist) explained

Charles Knight
Education:
Occupation:Cardiologist
Known For:
Profession:Physician
Work Institutions:St Bartholomew's Hospital
Specialism:Cardiology
Research Field:Interventional Cardiology

Charles Knight MD FRCP OBE is a British professor of cardiology and chief executive of St Bartholomew's Hospital, part of Barts Health NHS Trust.

In 1994 he assisted in the first percutaneous alcohol septal ablation, a non-surgical method for the treatment of hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy as an alternative to open heart surgery, and subsequently specialised in the procedure. From 2010 he led the development of the Barts Heart Centre at Barts Health NHS Trust which opened in 2015 by merging cardiac services from the London Chest Hospital, The Heart Hospital and St Bartholomew's Hospital.

In 2020, Knight was appointed chief executive officer of NHS Nightingale Hospital London, established to care for people during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the same year he was awarded an OBE for services to the NHS and people with heart disease.

Education

Charles Knight trained at Cambridge and Oxford universities.[1] [2]

Career

In 1994, at the Royal Brompton Hospital, he assisted Ulrich Sigwart with the introduction of percutaneous alcohol septal ablation, a non-surgical method for the treatment of hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy, as an alternative to open heart surgery.[1] [3] Knight subsequently specialised in the procedure.[4]

From 2010 he led the development of the Barts Heart Centre at Barts Health NHS Trust which opened in 2015 by merging cardiac services from the London Chest Hospital, The Heart Hospital and St Bartholomew's Hospital to create one of the largest cardiac centres in Europe.[5] [6] [7] In 2015 he was appointed as managing director and then chief executive of St Bartholomew’s Hospital.[8]

In March 2020, Knight was appointed chief executive officer of NHS Nightingale Hospital London, established to care for people during the COVID-19 pandemic. It was built in nine days with a 4,000 bed capacity.[9] The following month, at a Royal Society of Medicine webinar, he stated his concern over the aversion of some people to seek medical attention for problems unrelated to COVID-19.[10] In April 2021, following Prince Phillip's discharge from Barts, Knight received flowers from the Queen, on behalf of staff at Barts on the anniversary of the first COVID-19 lockdown.[11] [12]

In 2023 Knight gave a Gresham College lecture recounting the history of St Bartholomew's Hospital to mark its 900th anniversary.[13]

Other roles

He was associate editor of the journal Heart until 2014, and chair of the London Cardiology Speciality Training Committee. He was a member of the Royal College of Physicians Cardiology Speciality Advisory Committee. From 2008 to 2011 he served as honorary secretary of the British Cardiovascular Society, where he had also been a member of its training committee.[1]

He is a trustee of Barts Heritage,[14] Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, and is an honorary professor at the William Harvey Research Institute at Queen Mary University of London.[15]

Awards

In July 2020, he received the Freedom of the City of London for his work during the COVID-19 pandemic.[8] In October 2020, he was awarded an OBE for services to the NHS and people with heart disease.[8]

Selected publications

He has published over 100 research papers.[8]

Articles

Further reading

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Professor Charles Knight . https://web.archive.org/web/20221022065642/https://www.kingedwardvii.co.uk/consultants/professor-charles-knight . 22 October 2022 . 4 April 2020 . King Edward VII's Hospital.
  2. Web site: In Conversation Live with Professor Charles Knight OBE . www.rsm.ac.uk . 25 October 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221025065431/https://www.rsm.ac.uk/events/philanthropy/2020-21/php46/ . 25 October 2022 . en-gb . 30 June 2021.
  3. Knight . Charles J. . Five years of percutaneous transluminal septal myocardial ablation . Heart . 1 March 2000 . 83 . 3 . 255–256 . 10.1136/heart.83.3.255 . 10677397 . 1729343 . en . 1355-6037.
  4. Web site: Charles Knight . https://web.archive.org/web/20221022065928/https://www.radcliffecardiology.com/authors/charles-knight . 22 October 2022 . 4 April 2020 . Radcliffe Cardiology.
  5. https://www.bmj.com/careers/document/be1dbaea-b76f-48e2-9466-ac113bfcc1f3.pdf "Consultant in Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia"
  6. Web site: Our new 234m Barts Heart Centre could save 1,000 lives a year, says director London Cardiac Partnership . 23 October 2022.
  7. News: 28 December 2015 . Barts has a big heart . East London News . 23 October 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221025102406/https://eastlondonnews.co.uk/barts-has-a-big-heart/ . 25 October 2022.
  8. Web site: Professor Charles Knight, Chief Executive (seconded to NHS Nightingale Hospital London) . . 4 April 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20220730180938/https://www.bartshealth.nhs.uk/st-bartholomews-hospital-site-management-team/professor-charles-knight-chief-executive--658/. 30 July 2022.
  9. News: Nightingale Hospital in London placed on standby . 29 October 2022 . BBC News . 4 May 2020.
  10. News: Waiting rooms 'a thing of the past', says Nightingale boss . 29 October 2022 . guernseypress.com . 28 April 2020 . en.
  11. News: Queen reflects on 'grief' of pandemic and sends flowers to duke's hospital . 29 October 2022 . ITV News . 23 March 2021 . en.
  12. News: Ward . Victoria . Queen sends flowers to hospital that treated Duke of Edinburgh to mark lockdown anniversary . 29 October 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20221029080628/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2021/03/23/queen-sends-flowers-hospital-treated-duke-edinburgh-mark-lockdown/. 29 October 2022 . The Telegraph . 23 March 2021. subscription.
  13. https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/barts-900
  14. Web site: About Barts Heritage . https://web.archive.org/web/20221022065928/https://www.radcliffecardiology.com/authors/charles-knight . 22 October 2022.
  15. Web site: Knight, Charles . https://web.archive.org/web/20221022065234/https://www.qmul.ac.uk/whri/people/academic-staff/items/knightcharles.html . 22 October 2022 . 4 April 2020 . The William Harvey Research Institute . en.

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