Charles Knight (cardiologist)

Charles Knight MD FRCP OBE is a British professor of cardiology and chief executive of St Bartholomew's Hospital, part of Barts Health NHS Trust.

Charles Knight
Knight stood outside St Bartholomew's Hospital
Knight outside St Bartholomew's Hospital
Education
OccupationCardiologist
Known for
Medical career
ProfessionPhysician
Institutions
Sub-specialtiesCardiology
ResearchInterventional Cardiology

In 1994 he assisted in the first percutaneous alcohol septal ablation, a non-surgical method for the treatment of hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy as an alternative to open heart surgery, and subsequently specialised in the procedure. From 2010 he led the development of the Barts Heart Centre at Barts Health NHS Trust which opened in 2015 by merging cardiac services from the London Chest Hospital, The Heart Hospital and St Bartholomew's Hospital.

In 2020, Knight was appointed chief executive officer of NHS Nightingale Hospital London, established to care for people during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the same year he was awarded an OBE for services to the NHS and people with heart disease.

He is on the list of honorary medical staff at the private King Edward VII's Hospital.

Education

Charles Knight trained at Cambridge and Oxford universities.[1][2]

Career

In 1994, at the Royal Brompton Hospital, he assisted Ulrich Sigwart with the introduction of percutaneous alcohol septal ablation, a non-surgical method for the treatment of hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy, as an alternative to open heart surgery.[1][3] Knight subsequently specialised in the procedure.[1][4]

From 2010 he led the development of the Barts Heart Centre at Barts Health NHS Trust which opened in 2015 by merging cardiac services from the London Chest Hospital, The Heart Hospital and St Bartholomew's Hospital to create one of the largest cardiac centres in Europe.[5][6][7] In 2015 he was appointed as managing director and then chief executive of St Bartholomew’s Hospital.[8]

In March 2020, Knight was appointed chief executive officer of NHS Nightingale Hospital London, established to care for people during the COVID-19 pandemic.[8] It was built in nine days with a 4,000 bed capacity.[9] The following month, at a Royal Society of Medicine webinar, he stated his concern over the aversion of some people to seek medical attention for problems unrelated to COVID-19.[10] In April 2021, following Prince Phillip's discharge from Barts, Knight received flowers from the Queen, on behalf of staff at Barts on the anniversary of the first COVID-19 lockdown.[11][12]

In 2023 Knight gave a Gresham College lecture recounting the history of St Bartholomew's Hospital to mark its 900th anniversary.[13]

Other roles

He was associate editor of the journal Heart until 2014, and chair of the London Cardiology Speciality Training Committee.[8] He was a member of the Royal College of Physicians Cardiology Speciality Advisory Committee.[8] From 2008 to 2011 he served as honorary secretary of the British Cardiovascular Society, where he had also been a member of its training committee.[1]

He is a trustee of Barts Heritage,[14] Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians,[1] and is an honorary professor at the William Harvey Research Institute at Queen Mary University of London.[8][15] Knight works at the private King Edward VII's Hospital.[1]

Awards

In July 2020, he received the Freedom of the City of London for his work during the COVID-19 pandemic.[8] In October 2020, he was awarded an OBE for services to the NHS and people with heart disease.[8]

Selected publications

He has published over 100 research papers.[8]

Articles

See also

References
  1. "Professor Charles Knight". King Edward VII's Hospital. Archived from the original on 22 October 2022. Retrieved 4 April 2020.
  2. "In Conversation Live with Professor Charles Knight OBE". www.rsm.ac.uk. 30 June 2021. Archived from the original on 25 October 2022. Retrieved 25 October 2022.
  3. Knight, Charles J. (1 March 2000). "Five years of percutaneous transluminal septal myocardial ablation". Heart. 83 (3): 255–256. doi:10.1136/heart.83.3.255. ISSN 1355-6037. PMC 1729343. PMID 10677397.
  4. "Charles Knight". Radcliffe Cardiology. Archived from the original on 22 October 2022. Retrieved 4 April 2020.
  5. "Consultant in Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia". Barts Health Centre. October 2020
  6. "Our new 234m Barts Heart Centre could save 1,000 lives a year, says director | London Cardiac Partnership". Retrieved 23 October 2022.
  7. "Barts has a big heart". East London News. 28 December 2015. Archived from the original on 25 October 2022. Retrieved 23 October 2022.
  8. "Professor Charles Knight, Chief Executive (seconded to NHS Nightingale Hospital London)". Barts Health NHS Trust. Archived from the original on 30 July 2022. Retrieved 4 April 2020.
  9. "Nightingale Hospital in London placed on standby". BBC News. 4 May 2020. Retrieved 29 October 2022.
  10. "Waiting rooms 'a thing of the past', says Nightingale boss". guernseypress.com. 28 April 2020. Retrieved 29 October 2022.
  11. "Queen reflects on 'grief' of pandemic and sends flowers to duke's hospital". ITV News. 23 March 2021. Retrieved 29 October 2022.
  12. Ward, Victoria (23 March 2021). "Queen sends flowers to hospital that treated Duke of Edinburgh to mark lockdown anniversary". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 29 October 2022. Retrieved 29 October 2022.
  13. https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/barts-900
  14. "About Barts Heritage". Archived from the original on 22 October 2022.
  15. "Knight, Charles". The William Harvey Research Institute. Archived from the original on 22 October 2022. Retrieved 4 April 2020.

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