Professor Francisco Leyva-León is a Consultant Cardiologist in Birmingham, based privately at Little Aston Hospital, The Priory Hospital and The Harborne Hospital. He qualified at the University of Manchester in 1987 and completed his specialist training in cardiology at the Royal Brompton Hospital, London, in 2000. He is Professor of Cardiology at Aston University and a Consultant Cardiologist at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, where he leads the Heart Failure Service and the Cardiac Devices Service. 

His NHS and private medical practice both involve a wide range of clinical conditions including angina, heart attacks and hypertension. His special interests include heart failure, cardiomyopathies, arrhythmias, pacemakers, cardiac device therapy (cardiac resynchronisation therapy) and implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs). His imaging interests include Heart magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and Heart computed tomography (CT).

He is past President of the British Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance and has been a member of the National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidelines for Heart Failure and Cardiac Devices. He has been held numerous positions in European Society of Cardiology. He is also a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and the American College of Cardiology.

His research interests include: electrophysiology and cardiac devices therapy (cardiac resynchronisation therapy, pacemakers and defibrillators), cardiomyopathies and heart failure. These research programmes are undertaken at Aston University and at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham.