About
Dr Tom Kaier graduated in Medicine from the Medical University Innsbruck (Austria) and trained in Cardiology in London. During his clinical training, he was both engaged in cardiovascular research and completed a Master of Business Administration.
With the competitive award of a Research Fellowship by the British Heart Foundation in 2015, he was able to complete a PhD investigating the role of novel biomarkers in ischaemic heart disease at King’s College London. He presented on national and international platforms, was a finalist in several young investigator competitions and won the HyTest Cardiac Marker Award for remarkable scientific work in the field of cardiovascular diseases, as well as the Royal Society of Medicine Research & Innovation Prize. He published extensively in peer-reviewed journals.
As an NIHR-funded Academic Clinical Lecturer at King’s College London from 2019, he was able to be research-active whilst expanding his interventional experience as Chronic Total Occlusion (CTO) fellow at St Thomas’ Hospital with Dr Antonis Pavlidis. He was subsequently employed as Consultant in Coronary Intervention (with focus on CTOs) at St Thomas’ Hospital before moving to Royal Papworth Hospital in 2024.
Dr Kaier is happy to see adult self funding or insured private patients with any cardiac problem but he has a specialist interest in treating patients with chest pain and shortness of breath due to narrowed heart arteries. He specialises in complex stenting procedures from the wrist artery to treat chronic total occlusions of heart arteries.
Coronary Intervention, Coronary Physiology, Cardiac Support Devices
Dr Kaier is a Member of the Medical Advisory Committee at Cambridge Heart Clinic
2008 MD, Medical University Innsbruck (Austria)
2011 Membership of the Royal College of Physicians (MRCP), London
2015 European Exam of General Cardiology (EEGC)
2017 Master of Business Administration (MBA), Middlesex University, London
2019 Cardiovascular CT Experience Level 2, Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography
2019 PhD in Cardiovascular Medical Research, King’s College London
2021 Leadership & Professional Development in Healthcare Course, King’s College London
2023 Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) in Interventional Cardiology
Cardiac biomarkers of myocardial injury
Interventional cardiology and complex coronary interventions
Dr Kaier has declared that he does not hold a share or any financial interest in Cambridge Heart Clinic or any company owned by the Trust or Regent’s Park Healthcare. Dr Kaier has declared that he does not hold a share or financial interest in equipment used at Cambridge Heart Clinic or any Trust or Regent's Park Healthcare facility. This statement conforms with guidance set out by the Competition and Markets Authority.