General cardiology

Dr Simon MacDonald
Cardiologist
BSc (Hons), BMBCh, DPhil, FRCP
Specialist interests
Adult congenital heart disease, general cardiology, coronary artery disease, chest pain, valvular heart disease, heart rhythm problems, heart failure, cardiomyopathy, hypertension, pulmonary hypertension secondary to congenital/ cardiac causes, cardiovascular risk assessment, exercise testing, echocardiography, transoesophageal echocardiography, Holter monitoring, internal loop recording, cardiac catheterisation, PFO/ASD cardiac shunt assessment and closure, cardioversion
Conditions and treatments
Professional bio
Simon graduated from Oxford University before junior doctor training in London (Hammersmith, Queens Square, Whittington/UCL, Guys and St Thomas’ Hospitals). Formal adult cardiology training in the Oxford Postgraduate Deanery in the UK followed with additional training in paediatric cardiology and congenital interventional training fellowships at The Heart Hospital, London, and the Policlinico San Donato, Milan. He has over 20 years of experience of medicine and cardiology. He obtained a DPhil/ PhD in heart developmental genetics as a Wellcome Trust CVRI Prize Clinical Fellow during training.
His first substantive consultant post was in Adult Congenital Heart Disease and he also became Honorary Senior Lecturer in Cardiology at Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, before moving to Barts Heart Centre, London in 2019 for greater structural and ACHD experience.
He moved out to work at University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff in 2021, also becoming a Honorary Consultant at University Hospitals of Bristol NHS Foundation Trust.
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