Dr Gabriella Captur

• 21 years of experience
• Consultant Cardiologist, 88 Harley Street (present)
• Consultant Cardiologist, 9 Harley Street (present)
• Consultant Cardiologist, The Royal Free London Private Patients Unit (present)
• Consultant Cardiologist, Clinical Lead Inherited Cardiac Conditions, Royal Free London, UK (01.08.18 – present)
• Associate Professor UCL, UK (01.08.18 – present)
• NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow in Cardiology with NTN #LDN/007/172/A, Barts & QMUL, UK (01.03.14 – 01.08.18)
• NIHR Post-Doctoral Rare Disease Translational Research Fellow, Barts & UCL, UK (01.04.15 – 01.01.16)
• NIHR Cardiometabolic BRC Post-Doctoral Clinical Research Training Fellow, Barts & UCL, UK (01.03.14 – 01.04.15)
• Bioinformatics Research Fellow, Brigham’s Women’s Hospital, Boston, Ho Lab, USA (01.04.13 – 01.05.13)
• CMR Research Fellow, US National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, Bluemke Lab, USA (01.02.13 – 01.04.13)
• PhD Fellow UCL Institute of Cardiovascular Science, Heart Hospital & UCL, UK (01.10.11 – 01.03.14)
• SpR ST3 LAS Cardiology Heart Hospital/UCLH, UK (01.01.11 – 01.10.11)

• Patent Application No. US 18/194 235 for CMR-safe washable, reusable capturECGI vest
• International Academic Awards/Prizes:
• JCMR Pohost Prize of most important manuscript of the year (T2 mapping phantom) (2024)
• Dudley Pennell Best CMR Research Paper Prize, SCMR (2020)
• Young Investigator Finalist, EuroCMR Vienna, Fractal Analysis of Trabeculae in MESA (2014)
• Young Investigator Finalist, SCMR San Francisco, Predicting HCM Gene Mutation Carriage by CMR (2014)
• AHA Melvyn Judkins Young Investigator Prize, Dallas, Abnormal Trabeculae in Subclinical HCM (2013)
• Young Investigator Finalist, SCMR Los Angeles, Redefining LVNC Using Fractal Analysis (2013)
• Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance European Research Award (2012)
• Denton Cooley Texas Heart Institute Undergraduate Prize, Memento for Rene Favaloro (2003)
• National Academic Awards/Prizes:
• Josephine Lansdell British Medical Association Research Prize, CMR Imaging in Lamin DCM (2017)
• Young Investigator Finalist British Cardiovascular Society, Murine Embryo Trabeculae by Fractal Analysis (2013)
• 2nd Prize Young Investigator BSCMR, Magnet to Microscope, and Back: CMR Prediction Rule for HCM (2013)
• UCL Charlotte and Yule Bogue Research Prize, C++ Plugin Development for Fractal Analysis (2013)
• UCL Best Clinical Lecturer Prize MBBS Year 2 Cardiometabolic Patient Pathway lecture series (2012)
• 2nd Prize Young Investigator Award BSCMR, A Fractal Approach Towards Trabecular Quantification (2012)
• Prize for excellence, Medical School final year examinations: Anatomy, Pathology, Surgery (2004)
• National record holder GCSE (O-level Malta) Examinations, 17 subjects Grades 1 (all 90+) (1997)

Dr Gaby Captur is a leading consultant cardiologist at the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust and Associate Professor at University College London (UCL), where she specialises in inherited heart conditions and advanced cardiac imaging.

At the Royal Free Hospital, she is the Service Lead for its Inherited Cardiac Conditions Service, caring for individuals with genetic and acquired heart muscle conditions such as hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy, dilated cardiomyopathy, lamin heart disease, etc. 

Academically, she heads the Cardiometabolic Research Department at UCL’s Lifelong Health and Ageing Unit, focusing on heart health in older adults and population studies. She also consults privately at 88 Harley Street, 9 Harley Street, and the Royal Free London Private Patients Unit.

Dr Captur is internationally acknowledged for her expertise in cardiomyopathies, genetic heart disorders, heart failure, and cardiovascular disease prevention. With over 18 years’ experience, she provides personalised, evidence-based cardiology care and is known for her thorough and compassionate patient management.