Charles Knight (cardiologist)

Professor Charles Knight MD FRCP OBE is a consultant cardiologist and chief executive of St Bartholomew's Hospital, part of Barts Health NHS Trust.

Charles Knight
Occupation	Cardiologist, hospital chief executive officers
Employer	National Health Service

Knight was trained at Cambridge and Oxford universities.[1] He is an honorary Professor at the William Harvey Research Institute at Queen Mary University of London.[1][2] He has published over 100 research papers.

He served as honorary secretary of the British Cardiovascular Society from 2008 to 2011 and was associate editor of the journal Heart until 2014. He was a member of the Royal College of Physicians' Cardiology Speciality Advisory Committee.

From 2010, he led the development of the Barts Heart Centre at Barts Health NHS Trust which opened in 2015 by merging cardiac services from the London Chest Hospital, The Heart Hospital and St Bartholomew's Hospital to create one of the largest cardiac centres in Europe.[3] In 2015 he was appointed as managing director and then chief executive of St Bartholomew’s Hospital.

In March 2020, Knight was seconded as chief executive officer of NHS Nightingale Hospital London, established to care for patients during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic.[1] In July 2020, he received the Freedom of the City of London for outstanding work during the outbreak. In October 2020, he was awarded an OBE for services to the NHS and people with heart disease.

Knight is a specialist in alcohol septal ablation.[4][5] He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians[4] and a trustee of the National Heart and Lung Institute Foundation.

He also works at the private King Edward VII's Hospital[4] and is a trustee of Barts Heritage.[6]