Personal Profile
Personal Profile
Dr Mohssen Chabok gained his undergraduate medical degree from the Tehran School of Medicine in 2006. He then continued his postgraduate studies at Imperial College London and completed his MSc in Vascular Ultrasound with Distinction in 2010.
Dr Chabok worked in the private sector for 5 years as Clinical Manager for UK and Ireland and was subsequently promoted to Clinical Director. His role involved overseeing community clinics across UK and Ireland offering education and screening for cardiovascular conditions. He successfully established major research projects between the private sector and world-renowned research institutions such as the University of Oxford and Imperial College London.
Following this, he completed his research in the field of Cardiovascular Medicine leading to a PhD from Imperial College London.
Dr Chabok completed his training in the London North West Thames cardiology rotation, specialising in Interventional Cardiology and General Internal Medicine. He was appointed the Interventional fellow at the tertiary cardiac centre – Hammersmith Hospital.
He was appointed as a Cardiology Consultant at Harefield Hospital as well as the Hillingdon NHS Foundation Trust. He contributes to the busy Primary Angioplasty on-call service at the Harefield Hospital which provides 24/7 care for heart attack patients.
Research interests
Dr Chabok's research interests include a proactive approach to community-based, early disease detection and prevention of asymptomatic cardiovascular conditions such as high blood pressure, Diabetes, Coronary Artery Disease, Atrial Fibrillation related Stroke, Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm, Carotid artery disease and peripheral Vascular disease.
Publications
Dr Chabok has published multiple articles and papers including:
- Prevalence of abdominal aortic aneurysms and iliac aneurysms in the UK population of 50,000 women. Vasc Invest Ther 2020;3:104-10
- Local experience of ultrasound assisted catheter directed thrombolysis in London northwest university healthcare NHS trust for sub-massive pulmonary embolism, Heart 2020;106:A33-A34.
- Risk factors associated with increased prevalence of abdominal aortic aneurysm in women, British Journal of Surgery, 2016 Jun 22. doi: 10.1002/bjs.10179
- Screening for Asymptomatic Carotid Plaques with Ultrasound, Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg. 2016 May 19. pii: S1078-5884(16)30053-3. doi: 10.1016/j.ejvs.2016.04.013.
- Intima-Media Tickness (IMT) of peripheral arteries as an accurate predictor for coronary artery disease (CAD) in patients with subclinical atherosclerosis. International Angiology Journal, June 2012, Vol. 31(Suppl. 1-3) 37-38
- The prevalence of abdominal aortic aneurysm, carotid stenosis, peripheral arterial disease and atrial fibrillation among 280,000 screened British and Irish adults, presented in SVM 24th Annual Scientific Sessions, June 13-15, 2013, Cleveland, Ohio USA.
Teaching
Dr Chabok is a graduate training assistant who teaches postgraduate students at Imperial College London.
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