Leon J. Menezes

Leon J. Menezes is currently a Lead in nuclear cardiology with the Bart’s Heart Centre, and a Consultant Radiologist and a Nuclear Medicine Physician with University College London Hospitals. He read physiology and medicine at Oxford. He is trained in clinical radiology at Guy’s & St. Thomas’ and in nuclear medicine with University College London Hospital. He was previously a European Society of Radiology Fellow in cardiac imaging with La Sapienza, Rome. He is currently the President of the British Nuclear Cardiology Society. His clinical interests include multimodality and hybrid cardiac imaging, using SPECT and PET, with cardiac CT and cardiac MRI. His research interests include the application of these hybrid modalities to both rare and common cardiovascular diseases, such as sarcoidosis, amyloidosis, atherosclerosis, and infection, with funding from the Royal College of Radiologists and the British Heart Foundation.