Dr Claire Martin

Claire Martin is a Consultant Cardiologist and Electrophysiologist with over a decade of experience performing cardiac procedures.

She works as an NHS Consultant at Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, UK, and also as a Private Consultant at Royal Papworth Hospital, Cambridge Heart Clinic and Nuffield Health Cambridge Hospital. Her clinical expertise is in all areas of cardiac rhythm management, including diagnosis and treatment of arrhythmias such as atrial fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia. She holds an N1 National Clinical Impact Award.

Claire also conducts and manages research into novel ablation treatments for arrhythmias and into how new cardiac devices can improve clinical outcomes. She has published widely in peer-reviewed journals. Her research has been supported by the Medical Research Council, the Wellcome Trust, the European Society of Cardiology and the British Heart Foundation, as well as industry partners such as Boston Scientific, Biosense Webster, Medtronic, Abbot, and Acutus Medical. She is NIHR Cardiovascular Regional Research Delivery Network East of England Specialty Lead, Assistant Clinical Director for Research and Development at Royal Papworth Hospital, Research Lead for Cardiac Rhythm Management and holds the position of Affiliated Assistant Professor at the University of Cambridge.

Claire undertook undergraduate and clinical training at Cambridge University (Gonville and Caius College). She then completed a PhD at the University of Cambridge funded by a Medical Research Council Training Fellowship, and for this was awarded the British Cardiovascular Society Young Research Workers’ Prize.

After specialist training at Royal Papworth Hospital, she undertook clinical fellowships at two world-leading cardiac centres: Barts Heart Centre and the Hopital du Haut-Leveque, Bordeaux, through funding from a prestigious European Society of Cardiology Training Grant.