Dr Joshua Chai
Job title
Consultant
Specialties
Professional background
Dr Chai studied medicine at University of Cambridge, and was elected Rolleston Scholar of St John's College (University of Cambridge), where he completed his pre-clinical medicine with special interests in neurobiology (the hippocampus and hormonal influence on neurogenesis). He was awarded his BA at Cambridge with First Class Honours in 2002. He continued his clinical study at the University of Cambridge Clinical School and qualified in clinical medicine (MB BChir) in 2004.
He subsequently completed his post-graduate general medical training in London, rotated between St Bartholomew's, London Chest, and the Royal London Hospitals, before embarking on Cardiology specialist training in St Georges Hospital and King's College Hospital in London. He was awarded the prestigious Medical Research Council Clinical Research Fellowship to pursue his doctoral research in cardiovascular imaging and vascular biology, and was awarded his PhD / DPhil in Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Oxford in 2016. He was appointed Consultant Interventional Cardiologist at Wexham Park Hospital in 2018.
Research interests
Dr Chai's research focused on atherosclerosis imaging and its correlation to plaque biology. His research won international accolades including the President's Prize at the Royal Society of Medicine (Lipids, Metabolism & Vascular Risk section) in 2016; a Young Investigator Award from the European Atherosclerosis Society in 2015; and the Finalist award for American Heart Association Melvin Judkins Young Clinical Investigators in USA in 2015.