Areas of special interest
Interventional cardiac catheterisation; pulmonary vein stenosis; scimitar syndrome and adverse clinical events in telemedicine.
Training
Dr Rigby trained at the Killingbeck Hospital, Leeds; Birmingham Children’s Hospital; John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford and the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto.
International reputation
Following the tradition of the Trust, Dr Rigby has lectured and taught in many countries including Germany, Singapore, Brazil, Chile, Greece, Cyprus, Sweden, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. He also arranges seminars and meetings in the UK and teaches international students at the Trust.
Recently, Dr Rigby was the Course Director at Fetal Echocardiography, 19th World Congress in Obstetrics and Gynecology in Hamburg, Germany during September 2009.
He was also member of the international faculty, Cardiology Symposium at the University of Pernambuco in Recife, Brazil and visiting Professor of Paediatric Cardiology at the University of Salvador in Bahia, Brazil during October 2009 (delivering lectures and contributing to post graduate teaching).
Annual courses
Dr Rigby runs annual courses on Echocardiography in Congenital Heart Disease and Neonatal and Infant Heart Disease.
Published material
Dr Rigby has written a number of books including Paediatric Cardiology (Churchill Livingston, 2010); Echocardiography in Congenital Heart Disease Made Simple
(Imperial College Press, 2005); Colour Atlas of Congenital Heart Disease (Mosby - Wolf, 1995) and The Diagnosis of Congenital Heart Disease (Castle House, 1985).
