Management
Leadership and Digital Health
Clinical leadership, governance, audit, electronic patient record work and data-driven service improvement.
Clinical Management
As clinical Lead in cardiology from 2016 to 2019, Dr Lovell chaired consultant meetings, contributed to cluster management and represented cardiology at trust level.
Lead for cardiac electrophysiology at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital.
His leadership work included expansion of cardiac rhythm management, heart failure and inherited cardiac conditions services, plus development of specialist nurse roles across arrhythmia and chest pain services.
He also supported audit days, mortality and morbidity review and governance structures designed to improve service quality and patient care.
Leading Projects
- Clinical lead role in initation in regional inherited cardiac conditions service with the clinical genetics team.
- Contributed to implementation of Cerner Millennium at Barts Health NHS Trust in 2007.
- Supported as physician bulider the deployment of Epic at Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust from 2020.
- New technology: pulse field ablation adoption 2025 and 2026, PulseSelect PFA catheter, Sphere 9 PFA catheter, AFFERA mapping system, Volt PFA ablation balloon.
- Vascular closure for ablation procedures in 2026 with Perclose Prostyle.
- Implementation of leadless pacemaker service at the Royal Devon Hospital.
Audit and Guidelines
Deputy lead for UK National Audit of Cardiac Rhythm Management (NACRM).
Dr Lovell has led audits for cardiac devices and electrophysiology procedures at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital since 2014.
He has developed automated reporting systems for device and electrophysiology procedures using R, R Markdown and Quarto, producing reports, presentations, dashboards and websites to support governance and interpretation.
Earlier audit work included MINAP and PCI audits at the London Chest Hospital and support for the Royal College of Physicians Record Standards audit.
Electronic Patient Records
As Medical Information Officer for Epic, he works as a physician builder and clinical analyst, supporting clinical system design, data collection, export workflows, information governance and clinician training.
Data and IT
Dr Lovell has extensive experience with healthcare databases including MySQL, FileMaker Pro and Microsoft Access. His technical work focuses on reliable data capture, reproducible reporting, audit automation and practical clinical analytics.
He has more than 16 years’ experience with R and uses Quarto for reports, presentations, dashboards and web outputs. He is also a REDCap designer and administrator for secure research and audit data collection.
Patient Information
- Edited patient information leaflets for Atrial Fibrillation Association
- Chaired and presented at the national atrial fibrillation patient days
- Participated in arrhythmia patient days in and around Exeter
- Delivered school talks in London and Devon on cardiac risk factors and careers in medicine and cardiology