Tom Lumbers
Associate Professor and Cardiologist
at University College London and University College London Hospitals and Barts Heart Centre, United Kingdom
Biography
Dr. Tom Lumbers is an Honorary Consultant Cardiologist at University College London Hospitals and Barts Heart Centre. He is also a UKRI Rutherford Fellow at University College London and a Visiting Scientist at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT. After earning a medical degree with double distinction from Cambridge University, he trained in clinical cardiology at UCLH and Barts. He holds a PhD in molecular biology from Imperial College London and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in genetic epidemiology at UCL.
Dr. Lumbers specializes in general cardiology, heart failure, and clinical genetics. He leads the inpatient heart failure service at UCLH and is a member of the NIH ClinGen Dilated Cardiomyopathy Expert Group. Additionally, he co-leads the genomics group at the Institute of Health Informatics, focusing his research on the genetic underpinnings of heart failure to improve diagnostics and treatments.
