Dr Boon Lim

 Professional experience

• More than 20 years of experience
• Consultant Cardiologist and Electrophysiologist and Clinical Lead for the Imperial Syncope Diagnostic Unit, Hammersmith Hospital, London (present)
• Consultant Cardiologist and Electrophysiologist, One Welbeck Heart Health (present)
• Consultant Cardiologist, the West Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust (present)

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 Sub-specialties

• Atrial fibrillation
• Syncope
• Ablation therapy for arrhythmias

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 Positions in public associations

• British Cardiovascular Society Reviewer for 2018 European Society of Cardiology Guidelines
• Medical Advisory Committee, Syncope Trust and Reflex Anoxic Seizures (STARS) Charity
• Medical Advisory Committee, Atrial Fibrillation Association (AFA) Charity

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 Teaching posts

• Honorary Senior Lecturer, Imperial College London (2011 - present)
• Medical PhD Supervisor, Imperial College London
• Faculty member and Lecturer, St Jude Medical International Board of Heart Rhythm Examiners (IBHRE)

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 Education

• MRCP (2003)
• Cardiology training at top tertiary centres in Oxford and Northwest London based at St Mary’s, Hammersmith and the Heart Hospital in central London
• University of Cambridge, MB BChir (Double First Class Honours), MA,
• PhD in Cardiac Electrophysiology at Imperial College London (2011)

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 Publications and conferences

• Syncope: Scope of the problem and setting up a syncope clinic. Lecture at Annual Finapress International Meeting Dec 2016, Chandos House, London
• New mapping technologies for atrial fibrillation (AF) - Rhythmia. Lecture and Faculty at Europe AF meeting, Nov 2016, London.
• Use of Rhythmia for AF and AT mapping. Lecture and Faculty Member at Heart Rhythm Congress, Oct 2016, Birmingham
• Non-invasive mapping of arrhythmias. Lecture at Heart Rhythm Congress, Oct 2016, Birmingham
• Syncope research:
• Predicting Vasovagal Syncope from Heart Rate and Blood Pressure: A Prospective Study in 140 Subjects. (2018)
• 2018 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of syncope. (2018)
• Diagnostic role of head-up tilt test in patients with cough syncope. (2016)
• A long-term follow-up of patients with prolonged asystole of greater than 15s on head-up tilt testing. (2016)
• Diagnostic algorithm for syncope. (2014) 
• Ivabradine in treatment of sinus tachycardia mediated vasovagal syncope. (2014)
• Atrial fibrillation and complex mapping of arrhythmia research: 
• Isthmus sites identified by Ripple Mapping are usually anatomically stable: A novel method to guide atrial substrate ablation? (2018)
• High-Density Electroanatomical Mapping to Identify Point of Epicardial to Endocardial Breakthrough in Perimitral Flutter. (2017)
• The sawtooth EKG pattern of typical atrial flutter is not related to slow conduction velocity at the cavotricuspid isthmus. (2017)
• Cavotricuspid-Isthmus Dependent Flutter or Left-Sided Atrial Tachycardia? (2017)
• Microreentrant left atrial tachycardia circuit mapped with an ultra-high-density mapping system. (2017)
• Spatial Resolution Requirements for Accurate Identification of Drivers of Atrial Fibrillation. (2017)
• Visualizing Localized Reentry With Ultra-High Density Mapping in Iatrogenic Atrial Tachycardia: Beware Pseudo-Reentry. (2017)
• Rotor Tracking Using Phase of Electrograms Recorded During Atrial Fibrillation. (2017)
• A Prospective Study of Ripple Mapping in Atrial Tachycardias: A Novel Approach to Interpreting Activation in Low-Voltage Areas. (2016) 
• Application of ripple mapping with an electroanatomic mapping system for diagnosis of atrial tachycardias. (2013) 
• Research in other subjects: 
• Atrioventricular Optimized Direct His Bundle Pacing Improves Acute Hemodynamic Function in Patients With Heart Failure and PR Interval Prolongation Without Left Bundle Branch Block. (2018)
• Mapping Signatures of Ventricular Ectopic Activity of Endocavitary Origin. (2018)
• Basic life support education in secondary schools: a cross-sectional survey in London, UK. (2017) 
• The changing face of cardiovascular disease 2000-2012: An analysis of the world health organisation global health estimates data. (2016) 
• A Prospective Study of Ripple Mapping the Post-Infarct Ventricular Scar to Guide Substrate Ablation for Ventricular Tachycardia. (2016)
• A technique for visualising three-dimensional left atrial cardiac activation data in two dimensions with minimal distance distortion. (2015)
• Automated fiducial point selection for reducing registration error in the co-localisation of left atrium electroanatomic and imaging data. (2015) 
• Focal Arrhythmia Ablation Determined by High-Resolution Noninvasive Maps: Multicenter Feasibility Study. (2015)
• Noninvasive electrocardiographic mapping to guide ablation of outflow tract ventricular arrhythmias. (2014) 
• Electrophysiology and ablation of arrhythmias. (2013) 
• Research into the autonomic nervous system: 
• Ablation therapy for left atrial autonomic modification. (2016) 
• Dissociated pulmonary vein potentials: Expression of the cardiac autonomic nervous system following pulmonary vein isolation? (2015) 
• The left atrial neural network: more complicated than we thought? (2015)
• Characterization of the left atrial neural network and its impact on autonomic modification procedures. (2013) 
• Feasibility of multiple short, 40-s, intra-procedural ECG recordings to detect immediate changes in heart rate variability during catheter ablation for arrhythmias. (2011) 

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 Prizes and awards

• Top prize President’s Medal for Cardiology at the Royal Society of Medicine
• Lindo Foundation Prize at St Mary’s Hospital
• Runner-up in the Young Investigator Award for the British Cardiovascular Society
• Michelle Prize for Medicine, the Hoechst Marion Rousell Prize and the Sir Richard Stapley Scholarship awarded at Cambridge University
• Double First Class Honours at Cambridge University
• Top Doctors Doctor of the Year 2017

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 Professional membership

• The British Cardiovascular Society