Muhammad Rashid

Biography

Dr Rashid is a clinical academic in cardiology and interventional cardiology specialist registrar at Royal Stoke University Hospital. Dr Rashid was appointed as Clinical lecturer in Academic Cardiology funded by National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) at Keele University in March 2020.

Dr Rashid studied Medicine at the University of Health Sciences (Allama Iqbal Medical College), Lahore, Pakistan in 2007. He then moved to UK for his clinical training in 2008. He completed his foundation doctor clinical training from Mersey Deanery whilst working at Macclesfield district general hospital. He completed his core medical training in internal medicine in 2013 during which he worked at Whiston hospital and The Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Liverpool.

After completing his MRCP in 2012, he was appointed to a national training number in cardiology in Mersey Deanery in 2013. During his training in general cardiology, Dr Rashid spent dedicated time in cardiovascular research completing PhD in cardiovascular epidemiology at the Keele University in 2019, before taking up his current post.

Dr Rashid training to be an interventional cardiologist, treating patients with underlying coronary artery with percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and restricted heart valves problems without open heart surgery (TAVI).

Research and scholarship

Dr Rashid has a proven international track record in cardiovascular epidemiology, using routinely collected electronic healthcare record to inform the real-world effectiveness of cardiovascular interventions to patients, and real world outcomes of patients with cardiovascular diseases. He has consistently published high impact papers in the top cardiovascular journals. Dr Rashid is expert in the application of state of the art statistical methods to routinely collected “big data” to study the natural history of cardiovascular disease, compare treatments and study the outcomes of patients with cardiovascular disease. His current research focuses on evaluating health policies influencing cardiovascular care, as well as new cardiovascular devices and therapies in observational studies. During his research he has used various national datasets such as Myocardial Infarction National Audit Project (MINAP), BCIS / Society of Cardiothoracic Surgeons TAVI dataset and the British Heart Failure Association national heart failure audit aswell as several international datasets derived from the United States.

Teaching

Dr Rashid has strong interest in education and has pioneered several national and international courses for training and education of junior doctors and cardiology fellows. He is the director and educational lead of Mersey Medicine (www.merseymedicine.co.uk), which runs regular educational courses and training workshops for doctors, such as The Liverpool Hands of Cardiac Pacing, Coronary angiography course, ECG and Acute cardiology course.

He is also co-supervisor of several undergraduate and post graduate students at Keele University and Royal Stoke University Hospital.