# Robin Choudhury

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{{Short description|British cardiologist}}
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'''Robin Choudhury''' is a British cardiologist, and Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at the [University of Oxford](/source/University_of_Oxford). He is also a Consultant Cardiologist at the [John Radcliffe Hospital](/source/John_Radcliffe_Hospital) and a Research Fellow in Biomedical Sciences at [Balliol College, Oxford](/source/Balliol_College%2C_Oxford).

==Education==
[Leeds Grammar School](/source/Leeds_Grammar_School) and Balliol College, University of Oxford.

==Career and Research==
Choudhury was a house physician in the Nuffield Department of Medicine at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford. He undertook postgraduate training in London at the [Royal Brompton Hospital](/source/Royal_Brompton_Hospital) and [Hammersmith Hospital](/source/Hammersmith_Hospital). He won a [Wellcome Trust](/source/Wellcome_Trust) Prize International Fellowship to undertake research at the [Mount Sinai School of Medicine](/source/Mount_Sinai_School_of_Medicine), New York City, where he worked with Dr Valentin Fuster and in the laboratory of Dr Edward Fisher.

He returned to Oxford in 2001, where he was a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow in Clinical Science and founding Director of the Acute Vascular Imaging Centre. He has been elected to fellowships of The [European Society of Cardiology](/source/European_Society_of_Cardiology), the [American College of Cardiology](/source/American_College_of_Cardiology) and of the [Royal College of Physicians](/source/Royal_College_of_Physicians) (FRCP).

==Clinical expertise==
His clinical practice is as a coronary interventional cardiologist and he is expert in the management of cholesterol, inflammation and cardiovascular risk. His is a past president of the Royal Society of Medicine Section on Lipids, Metabolism and
Vascular Risk. He is an advocate for informed patient choice.<ref name="TelegraphStatins">{{cite news |title=Statins: The pros and cons |work=The Telegraph |date=2020 |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness/conditions/heart-health/statins-pros-cons/ |access-date=9 February 2025}}</ref>

==Publications==
Choudhury's most notable research has been in the field of cardiovascular disease. Choudhury has contributed to over 250 articles in the scientific literature mostly in the fields of molecular imaging;<ref name="McAteer2007">{{cite journal |author=McAteer M. A., Sibson N. R., von zur Mühlen C., Schneider J. E., Lowe A. S., Warrick N., Channon K. M., Anthony D. C., & Choudhury R. P. |title=In vivo magnetic resonance imaging of acute brain inflammation using microparticles of iron oxide |journal=Nature Medicine |date=2007 |volume=13 |issue=10 |pages=1253–1258 |doi=10.1038/nm1631 |pmid=17891139|pmc=2917758 }}</ref> inflammation in cardiovascular disease;<ref name="Cahill2017">{{cite journal |author=Cahill T. J., Choudhury R. P., & Riley P. R. |title=Heart regeneration and repair after myocardial infarction – translational opportunities for novel therapeutics |journal=Nature Reviews Drug Discovery |date=2017 |volume=16 |issue=11 |pages=699–717 |doi=10.1038/nrd.2017.106 |pmid=28685705}}</ref> myocardial
regeneration;<ref name="Ruparelia2017">{{cite journal |author=Ruparelia N., Chai J. T., Fisher E. A., & Choudhury R. P. |title=Characterization of inflammation processes and pathways in cardiovascular disease as a route to rational targeted therapies |journal=Nature Reviews Cardiology |date=2017 |volume=14 |issue=3 |pages=133–144 |doi=10.1038/nrcardio.2016.185 |pmid=27853196|pmc=5525550 }}</ref> and innate immune programming.<ref name="Edgar2021">{{cite journal |author=Edgar L., Akbar N., Braithwaite A. T., Krausgruber T., Gallart-Ayala H., Bailey J., Corbin A. L., Khoyratty T. E., Chai J. T., Alkhalil M., Rendeiro A. F., Ziberna K., Arya R., Cahill T. J., Bock C., Laurencikiene J., Crabtree M. J., Lemieux M. E., Riksen N. P., Netea M. G., Wheelock C. E., Channon K. M., Rydén M., Udalova I. A., Carnicer R., & Choudhury R. P. |title=Hyperglycaemia induces trained immunity in macrophages and their precursors and promotes atherosclerosis |journal=Circulation |date=2021 |volume=144 |issue=12 |pages=961–982 |doi=10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.120.046464 |pmid=34407179|hdl=2066/238017 |hdl-access=free |pmc=8448412 }}</ref>

He is co-editor of the Handbook of Cardiology Emergencies (OUP), and contributor to the [Oxford Textbook of Medicine](/source/Oxford_Textbook_of_Medicine) (OUP). 

In 2013, he led a group that used [MRI](/source/MRI) to test, for the first time in a living subject, the 500-year-old theories of [Leonardo da Vinci](/source/Leonardo_da_Vinci) on the movement of blood across the aortic valve. In 2024, [Head of Zeus](/source/Head_of_Zeus) published The Beating Heart: The Art & Science of Our Most Vital Organ.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Kilner |first=Philip |date=November 6, 2024 |title=Our revered and mysterious heart |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/s41569-024-01096-w |journal=Nature Reviews Cardiology |language=en |volume=22 |issue=1 |pages=1–2 |doi=10.1038/s41569-024-01096-w |issn=1759-5010|url-access=subscription }}</ref> [Apollo Magazine](/source/Apollo_Magazine) noted that it "charts depictions of the art from ancient ayurvedic texts to Renaissance anatomical diagrams to the Surrealists and beyond".<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-10-27 |title=Art that makes the heart beat faster |url=https://www.apollo-magazine.com/heart-rate-monitor-art-ontario-christian-boltanski-robin-choudhury/ |access-date=2024-12-10 |website=Apollo Magazine |language=en-US}}</ref>

== Further reading ==
* Statins: The pros and cons. ''The Telegraph'', 2020. [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness/conditions/heart-health/statins-pros-cons/ Available here].
* Circulation: European perspectives. ''Circulation'', 2011. [https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1161/cir.0b013e3181ed33f1 Available here].
* Professor Robin Choudhury. ''Balliol College, University of Oxford''. [https://www.balliol.ox.ac.uk/professor-robin-choudhury Available here].

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