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Dr Tara Bharucha

Dr Bharucha is a consultant paediatric (children's) cardiologist who specialises in echocardiography (a scan to examine the heart) and heart failure.

MB BChir MA (Cantab) MRCP FESC

Training and education

  • MA MB BChir - University of Cambridge, 1997
  • MRCP - London, 2002
  • Fellowship in heart failure, transplant and pulmonary hypertension - Melbourne, Australia, 2007 to 2008
  • Certificate of completion of training in paediatric cardiology - University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, 2009
  • Fellowship in echocardiology and fetal cardiology - Toronto, Canada, 2011

Experience

Dr Bharucha is a consultant paediatric cardiologist. She trained in paediatric cardiology in Southampton, including fellowships in heart failure and transplantation in Melbourne, Australia, and advanced echo imaging and fetal cardiology in Toronto, Canada. She won the outstanding research award in paediatric cardiology awarded by the American Heart Association in 2008.

She has an established fetal and general paediatric practice here at Univerity Hospital Southampton and runs a multidisciplinary muscular dystrophy clinic. She is research lead for paediatric cardiology.

Research

Dr Bharucha’s publications include:

  • Development of a Novel Risk Prediction Model for Sudden Cardiac Death in Childhood Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM Risk-Kids). Norrish G, Ding T, Field E, Ziólkowska L, Olivotto I, Limongelli G, Anastasakis A, Weintraub R, Biagini E, Ragni L, Prendiville T, Duignan S, McLeod K, Ilina M, Fernández A, Bökenkamp R, Baban A, Kubuš P, Daubeney PEF, Sarquella-Brugada G, Cesar S, Marrone C, Bhole V, Medrano C, Uzun O, Brown E, Gran F, Castro FJ, Stuart G, Vignati G, Barriales-Villa R, Guereta LG, Adwani S, Linter K, Bharucha T, Garcia-Pavia P, Rasmussen TB, Calcagnino MM, Jones CB, De Wilde H, Toru-Kubo J, Felice T, Mogensen J, Mathur S, Reinhardt Z, O'Mahony C, Elliott PM, Omar RZ, Kaski JP. JAMA Cardiol. 2019 Aug 14.
  • Impact of Right Ventricular Geometry and Left Ventricular Hypertrophy on Right Ventricular Mechanics and Clinical Outcomes in Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome. Rösner A, Bharucha T, James A, Mertens L, Friedberg MK. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2019 Oct;32(10):1350-1358.
  • Echocardiographic predictors of reoperation for subaortic stenosis in children and adults. Theocharis P, Viola N, Papamichael ND, Kaarne M, Bharucha T. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2019 Sep 1;56(3):549-556.

Contact

You can contact Dr Bharucha via her secretary by calling 023 8120 2924