Waqas Akhtar

Waqas completed full postgraduate certification in Cardiology, Intensive Care & General Internal Medicine with a particular interest in cardiogenic shock, heart transplantation and mechanical circulatory support. He has held a number of national roles including chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges Resident Doctors Committee, board of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine as lead national intensivists in training representative, trainee representative in organ donation at NHS Blood & Transplant London, honorary treasurer critical care section council at Royal Society of Medicine and co-president at British Transplant Physician Trainees. He studied Medicine at the University of Oxford and have trained at Royal Brompton & Harefield, Guy's & St Thomas' and Barts Health.