Dr Afzal Uzma

Dr Uzma Afzal is an Associate Consultant from the Department of Cardiology at National Heart Centre Singapore.

• CCST Cardiology – Joint Royal Colleges Postgraduate Training Board UK 2023.
• Cardiology Certified Doctor, GMC Specialist Register, UK 2022.
• MRCP (UK) - 2008
• MBBS - 2002

• Associate Consultant, Department of Cardiology, National Heart Centre Singapore, Jan 2026 - Presen
• Staff Physician, Department of Cardiology, National Heart Centre Singapore, April 2024 – Dec 2025. 
• Senior Cardiac Imaging Registrar, John Radcliffe, Oxford University Hospital, NHS Foundation Trust, Aug 2020 – Oct 2022.
• Cardiology Registrar – James Cook University Hospital, Middlesborough, UK, Feb 2020 – Aug 2020.
• Cardiology Registrar – Queen Elizabeth Hospital GatesHead, Newcastle, UK – Sep 2016 – Feb 2020.
• Clinical Fellow Advanced Heart Failure and mechanical circulatory support, Harefield Hospital, UK. Oct 2015 – Jun 2016.
• Research Fellow Cardiology – Imperial College UK, Oct 2012 – Jun 2015. 
• Registrar Cardiology – Ealing Hospital, Northeast London, NHS Foundation Trust, UK, Jan 2011 – Oct 2012.
• Clinical Fellow, Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit and Cardiology, St. Georges Hospital, Tooting, London, UK, Feb 2007 – Dec 2009.
• Registrar, General Medicine, Queen Marys Hospital, NHS Foundation Trust Sidcup, UK. Oct 2006 – Jan 2007.
• Registrar, General Medicine, Oldchurch Hospital, Romford, Essex UK, Aug 2006 – Oct 2006.
• Senior House Officer, General Medicine and A & E, Barking, Havering and Redbridge NHS Foundation Trust, UK, Feb 2005 – Aug 2006
• House Officer, Mayo Hospital, King Edward Medical University, Lahore, Pakistan, Dec 2002 – Feb 2004.

• CCST Cardiology – Joint Royal Colleges Postgraduate Training Board UK 2023.
• Accreditation British Society of Transoesophageal Echocardiography, Sep 2022.
• Accreditation British Society of Transthoracic Echocardiography, Feb 2022.

1. Ultraslow Thrombolysis of Mechanical Tricuspid Prosthesis Thrombosis, JACC Case Report Uzma Afzal, Jeff Lau, Jonathan Yap, Jiang Ming Fam, Inn Jia Ooi, Ding Zee Pin, Tan Ju Le, See Hooi Ewe, Kay Woon Ho, July 16 th, 2025. 

2. Kato et al. Trans-ethnic genome wide association study identifies 15 new genetic loci influencing blood pressure traits and implicated a role for DNA methylation: The International Genetics of Blood Pressure (iGen-BP) Study. Nature Genetics (2015).

3. Joshi PK … 75 authors …. Afzal U … 283 authors. Directional dominance on stature and cognition in diverse human populations. Nature. 2015 Jul 1. doi: 10.1038/nature14618.

4. Lehne B, Drong A, Loh M, Zhang W, Scott WR, Tan ST, Afzal U, Scott J, Jarvelin MR, Elliott P, McCarthy MI, Kooner JS, Chambers JC. A coherent approach for analysis of the Illumina HumanMethylation450 BeadChip improves data quality and performance in epigenome-wide association studies. Genome Biology 2015: 16; 37. 

5. Wood et al. AR … 74 authors … Afzal U … ~300 authors. Frayling TM. Defining the role of common variation in the genomic and biological architecture of adult human height. Nat Genetics 2014: 46; 1173-86.