Dr. Alessandro Giardini
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Being told there could be something wrong with your child's heart is a very distressing and scary situation. You want the best expert advice and care for your child and may feel that the referral system is a remote process that gives little sense of reassurance that you will find the quaity of care that you are looking for.
Dr Alessandro Giardini is a Senior Consultant Paediatric and Adolescent Cardiologist in London with a clinical and academic career spanning more than 25 years. He holds the position of Director of Inpatient Cardiology Services at Great Ormond Street Hospital since 2007 where he also leads the Single Ventricle Programme and the Exercise Physiology Laboratory. His day-to-day NHS work centres on the most complex and vulnerable children: newborns with critical heart defects, children with single ventricle circulations, and young people with inherited cardiac conditions.
He is an Honorary Associate Professor at University College London and holds an Associate Professorship at the Italian Ministry of Higher Education. With more than 140 peer-reviewed publications, Dr Giardini is recognised internationally as a leading authority in paediatric cardiology, exercise physiology in children with heart and lung disease, and outcomes research in congenital heart defects.
Dr Giardini's private paediatric cardiology practice is based in London at the Portland Hospital and at the International and Private Care Centre, Great Ormond Street Hospital and Chase Lodge Hospital (North London). He is a recognised specialist with all major private medical insurers, including BUPA, AXA, Vitality, Allianz, Cigna, Healix, WPA and many others, and he welcomes self-paying patients as well as Embassy referrals.
Dr. Giardini has earned an international reputation as one of the foremost specialists in his field, and is widely regarded as a leading voice in paediatric cardiology across the UK, Europe, Asia and the United States. Colleagues, families and major cardiology centres around the world routinely turn to him for expert guidance and independent clinical opinion.
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