Juan Pablo Kaski is Professor of Paediatric Inherited Cardiovascular Medicine at the
UCL Institute of Cardiovascular Science, where he leads the UCL Centre for
Paediatric Inherited and Rare Cardiovascular Diseases, and Consultant Paediatric
Cardiologist at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), London, UK. He is the
Director of the GOSH Centre for Inherited Cardiovascular Diseases. His clinical and
research interests are focused on the clinical and genetic characterisation of
cardiomyopathies and other inherited cardiovascular disease, and sudden cardiac
death in childhood. He leads an internationally-recognised research programme in
the field of paediatric cardiomyopathy, having established a unique clinical cohort
and the only UK bioresource for paediatric inherited cardiovascular disease, with the
aim of stratifying disease phenotypes and identifying novel therapeutic targets.
He is Secretary/Treasurer of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Council on
Cardiovascular Genomics and sits on the Executive Board of the ESC
Cardiomyopathy and Myocarditis Registry Programme. He has also served as Chair
and Secretary of the Association for European Paediatric Cardiology (AEPC)
Working Group on Genetics, Basic Science and Myocardial Disease. He leads an
international paediatric HCM consortium of over 65 centres, which was responsible
for the development of the first sudden death risk prediction model for childhood
HCM. He chaired the Task Force for the 2023 European Society of Cardiology
Cardiomyopathy Guidelines.