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Idris Harding is a consultant cardiologist, heart rhythm specialist (electrophysiologist) and cardiac devices specialist. He also holds a PhD from University College London in diabetic heart disease. His NHS post includes electrophysiology and general cardiology at East Kent Hospitals (Ashford and Margate) and Kings College Hospital in Denmark Hill. In Kent he is lead for cardiology education and heads the cardiac electrophysiology and device audit and quality improvement programme. Dr Harding trained at Imperial College School of Medicine in London and won the WG Prout Prize as a junior doctor.He went on to train in cardiology and then cardiac rhythm management St George’s, St Thomas’, and Kings College Hospitals in London followed by subspecialist fellowships at Kings in London and at Queen Elizabeth’s Medical Centre in Birmingham. As a junior consultant he has spent time at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston (associated with Harvard Medical School), gaining skills in inherited cardiac disease risk stratification and management. Dr Harding is expert in all aspects of cardiac rhythm management including lifestyle modification and drug treatments but his particular expertise is in the use of ablation procedures to treat tachycardias (fast heart rhythms) and device implantation for bradycardias (slow heart rhythms). He investigates and treats patients with all varieties of irregular heartbeat including atrial fibrillation, atrial flutter, atrial tachycardia, SVT, Wolff Parkinson White syndrome (accessory pathway) as well as inherited arrhythmia syndromes. He has a particular interest in risk assessment for cardiac disease and arrhythmia, as well as novel device implant techniques.