Professor Wei Li

Professor Wei Li is a Consultant and Clinical Lead in Adult Congenital Heart Disease (ACHD) Echocardiography at Royal Brompton Hospital and Professor of Practice at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London.

Professor Li studied at Peking Union Medical College, where she received her MD. She came to the UK to conduct research for her PhD at Imperial College London, where she was awarded the Fielding Medical Scholarship.

She has worked in the fields of echocardiography and congenital heart disease for more than thirty years and specialises in echocardiographic assessment for various heart conditions, including valvular heart disease, congenital heart disease, cardiomyopathy, ischaemic and hypertensive heart disease and pulmonary hypertension. She has a special interest in using both transthoracic and transoesophageal echocardiography and advanced techniques including 3D/speckle tracking, physiological and pharmacological stress echo, and myocardial contrast echocardiography in assessing patients with complex cardiovascular anatomy.

She has created and established Echocardiography for Adult Congenital Heart Disease (ACHD) as a well-recognised subspecialty at Imperial/RBH. She has been responsible for training many international visiting fellows and is a frequently invited speaker at international conferences, with a role in designing scientific sessions at these conferences.