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Dr Hossam Elsayed is a Consultant Cardiologist at The Priory Hospital. He qualified in 2001 from Egypt and initially trained as a general physician. In the UK, he pursued additional training in General Medicine before specialising in Cardiology. Driven by his aspiration to become a cardiologist, he joined the national training program for cardiology in Wales in 2013. Dr Elsayed has extensive experience working in general cardiology across District General Hospitals and tertiary care cardiac centres.

His subspecialty training focuses on heart failure and complex implantable cardiac devices. Dr Elsayed is considered an experienced operator of cardiac implantable devices, having received exemplary training at the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, and Morriston Cardiac Centre, Swansea. Upon completing his cardiology specialist training, he undertook a prestigious clinical fellowship in complex cardiac devices at the Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital, supervised by world-renowned experts.

Since June 2020, Dr Elsayed has been a Consultant Cardiologist at the University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (Good Hope Hospital). He manages the full spectrum of General Cardiology and runs specialist services in heart failure, cardiomyopathies, heart rhythm problems, and recurrent blackouts. He leads the heart failure service at Good Hope Hospital and established a virtual weekly heart failure MDT attended by community heart failure teams from North and East Birmingham.

Dr Elsayed is passionate about teaching and actively involved in training undergraduate students from Birmingham Medical School, postgraduate teaching, and training junior doctors and nurses. He serves as the Cardiology lead for fourth-year medical students, senior academic tutor, and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at the University of Birmingham. In addition to teaching, he is committed to using quality improvement tools to provide patient-focused clinical care and enhance training quality.

Dr Elsayed regularly contributes to charitable work and helps raise funds for organisations in the developing world.