Professional statement
Dr Heeraj Bulluck is a consultant cardiologist at Spire Leeds Hospital specialising in all aspects of general and interventional cardiology. He has expertise in chest pain, angina, microvascular and vasospastic anginas, MINOCA, post-heart attack care, and ischemic heart disease secondary prevention.
Dr Bulluck completed his medical degree at Peking University Health Science Centre in Beijing in 2004. He came to the UK to undertake his cardiology training in the East of England Deanery, at hospitals in Norwich, Ipswich, and Cambridge. He obtained his PhD on the role of tissue characterisation by cardiovascular magnetic resonance in ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) from the University College London. He completed a complex coronary interventional fellowship at the Golden Jubilee National Hospital in Glasgow before being appointed consultant at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and subsequently at Leeds General Infirmary.
Dr Bulluck, as the Percutaneous Coronary Intervention research lead at Leeds General Infirmary, is a leader in the diagnosis and treatment of coronary artery disease and is actively engaged in research, with more than 120 scientific publications in his name. He is an honorary senior clinical lecturer at the University of Leeds.
Treatments
THE DOCTOR IS EXPERT IN
Angina
Cardiac risk
Chest pain
Coronary angioplasty
Coronary heart disease
Heart attack
Heart check up
Microvascular angina
THE DOCTOR ALSO SPECIALISES IN:
Ambulatory ECG monitoring
Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring
Angiography
Arrhythmia
Atherosclerosis
Blood pressure test
Cardiac screening
Cardiomyopathy
Cardiovascular disease
Cholesterol
Coronary angiography
Coronary stent
Dilated cardiomyopathy
Echocardiogram
Electrocardiogram
Family history of heart disease
Heart failure
Heart valve surgery
Hypercholesterolemia
Hypertension (high blood pressure)
Interventional cardiology
MRI
Myocarditis
OCT (optical coherence tomography)
Pressure wire study
Preventive cardiology
Rotational atherectomy
Shortness of breath
Statins
Professional experience
- 21 years of experience
- Consultant cardiologist, Spire Leeds Hospital (present)
- Inverventional cardiologist, Leeds General Infirmary (2021 – present)
- Consultant cardiologist, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals (2019 – 2021)
- Complex coronary interventional fellow, Golden Jubilee Hospital, Glasgow (2019 – 2021)
- Visiting research fellow, National Heart Centre, Singapore (2016 – 2017)
Subspecialties
- Vasospastic angina
- MINOCA
- Post-heart attack care
- Ischemic heart disease secondary prevention
- Blood pressure test
- Cardiac catheterisation
- Cardioversion
- Electrocardiogram (ECG)
- Exercise ECG
Professional memberships
- Royal College of Physicians
- European Society of Cardiology
Education
- Fellowship, European Society of Cardiology (2024)
- Fellowship, Royal College of Physicians (2023)
- Certificate in Cardiac Computed Tomography (CCT), Joint Royal Colleges of Physicians Training Board (2019)
- PhD in tissue characterisation by CMR in STEMI, University College London
- MBBS, Peking University Health Science Centre, Beijing (2004)
Teaching posts
- Honorary senior lecturer, University of Leeds (2021 – present)
Positions in organisations
- Percutaneous Coronary Intervention research lead, Leeds General Infirmary (present)
Languages spoken
- Chinese (mandarin)
- English
- French
- Italian
