Professor Amitava Banerjee is a pragmatic clinician, a prolific researcher and a passionate educator, based in London. He is Professor in Clinical Data Science at University College London, and Honorary Consultant Cardiologist at University College London Hospitals and Barts Health NHS Trusts. He is currently National Cardiovascular Specialty Lead for the NIHR Research Delivery Network. He is on the Board of the World Heart Federation and the Strategic Advisory Board of the British Heart Foundation.

After qualifying from Oxford Medical School, Amitava trained as a junior doctor in Oxford, Newcastle, Hull and London. His interest in preventive cardiology and evidence-based medicine led to a Masters in Public Health at Harvard(2004/05), an internship at the World Health Organisation(2005) and DPhil in epidemiology from Oxford(2010). He was Clinical Lecturer in Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Birmingham, before taking up the position of Senior Lecturer in Clinical Data Science and Honorary Consultant in Cardiology at the Farr Institute of Health Informatics in August 2015. He was promoted to Professor in 2021. 

Fellowships

FACC - Fellowship of the American College of Cardiology, 2024

FAHA - Fellowship of the American Heart Association, 2015

sFBCS - Special Fellowship of the British Cardiovascular Society

FESC - Fellowship of the European Society of Cardiology, 2016

FFCI - Fellowship of the Faculty of Clinical Informatics, 2018

FRCP(Lon) - Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 2018

FRCP(Edin) - Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 2017

Member - British Society of Heart Failure

Prizes/Awards

• NIHR Senior Investigator Award, 2026
• Visiting International Professorship, American Heart Association: Yale University 2024-2025
• Milroy Lecture on State of Public Health, Royal College of Physicians, London 2024
• Highly Cited Award for Cross-Disease Research, Clarivate 2024
• National Clinical Excellence Award, Bronze 2021
• UCL Faculty Education Award for outstanding contribution to student education, 2021
• RCP Excellence in Patient Care Awards for DATA-CAN (team member), 2021
• Impact of the Year, HDR UK 2020
• Team of the Year, HDR UK 2020
• Emerging Leader, World Heart Federation, 2014
• Winner, “Specialist Factual New Talent", Sheffield International Documentary Festival, 2012
• St Catherine’s College Graduate Scholarship in Sciences, University of Oxford, 2008-2010 
• Young Investigator Award, European Stroke Conference, Nice 2008
• Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship, Harvard University, 2004