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Consultant Cardiologistsst

 



Dr Stephen Holmberg MD FRCP
Trained in medicine and cardiology in Cambridge & London
Consultant Cardiologist in Brighton since 1991 specialising in general adult cardiology and including all aspects of coronary heart disease and its treatment.
Lead Consultant for Cardiac Services at Brighton & Sussex University Hospitals.
Honorary Secretary of British Cardiovascular Society.
Co-Chair of Sussex Cardiac Network.
Member of Cardiology Specialist Advisory Committee at Royal College of Physicians.
Training Programme Director for Cardiology in London, Kent, Surrey & Sussex
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Dr Adam de Belder MD FRCP
Director of Cardiac Catheter Laboratories, Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals.
Director of Clinical Audit.
Trained in London, and appointed as Consultant Cardiologist, Brighton in 1999.
Trained in all aspects of adult cardiac disease with a specialist interest in coronary angioplasty and rotablation.
Performs approx. 300 procedures/year.
Member of British Cardiovascular Interventional Society UK Council.
Member of NICE Interventional guideline committee.
Primary Investigator of numerous clinical trials occurring at the Sussex cardiac Centre
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Dr David Hildick-Smith MD MRCP
Director of Cardiac Research Unit, Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust.
Appointed Consultant Cardiologist in Brighton in 2002.
Special interests include:
   Transradial coronary angiography and stenting
   Closure of patent foramen ovale and atrial setpal defects
   Valvuloplasty and percutaneous valvular implants
   Biventricular pacemakers

Member of NICE Interventional Procedures Panel.
Author of 30 clinical papers.

Dr Hildick-Smith



 
Dr Rachael James MD, BSc, MRCP
Trained in London and appointed as a Consultant Cardiologist in Brighton 2004.
Lead Consultant for echocardiography (British Society of Echocardiography (BSE) accredited for transthoracic and transoesophageal echocardiography).
Special interests are adult congenital heart disease and heart disease in pregnancy.
BSE Council Member and Member of the BSE Accreditation and Departmental Accreditation committees.
Council member for the British Cardiovascular Society (Women in Cardiology Representative).


Professor Richard Vincent BSc MD FRCP FESC AKC
Trained in medicine and cardiology at King’s College Hospital, London. Appointed Consultant Cardiologist at the Royal Sussex County Hospital 1979. Special interests in cardiology:
pre-hospital and hospital care of heart attacks; resuscitation; all forms of coronary disease; non-invasive tests and treatments.
Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology.
Founding Member of the Resuscitation Council (UK).
Member of the European Resuscitation Council.
Founding Chair of Trustees of the UK Council of Professionals as Resuscitation Officers.
Founding Head of the Institute of Postgraduate Medicine and Associate Dean of the Brighton and Sussex Medical School.
British Heart Foundation Lecturer.
Author of 6 books, 17 book chapters and over 100 scientific papers on cardiology and medical computing.
Lead contributor to over 40 educational videos, three winning BMA awards.




 


Dr Sean O'Nunain MD, MA, FRCP
Qualified from Trinity College Dublin, 1979. General Cardiology training Papworth Hospital, Cambridge. Subspeciality training in management of cardiac arrhythmias including interventional electrophysiology, St George’s Hospital London.
Fellowship in Interventional Electrophysiology Massachussetts General Hospital, Boston.
Teaching faculty Harvard Medical School. Previously Head  of Electrophysiology, Kings College Hospital.
Consultant Cardiologist providing a regional service for Sussex based at RSCH since 1998, specialising in all aspects of diagnosis and treatment of cardiac arrhythmias.
Special areas of interest,: radiofrequency ablation of supraventricular and ventricular arrhythmias, complex device therapy for cardiac arrhythmias including ICDs and biventricular pacing.



 
Dr Jennie Metcalfe BA, Bch. MB, MA, MRCP, FRCP

Lead Cardiologist Princess Royal Hospital, Consultant in General Medicine with a Specialist Interest in Cardiology  (Brighton & Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust)
Qualifications: Cambridge University 1972 BA, 1975 BCh. MB, 1976 MA. 1979 MRCP (UK) 1995 FRCP 2007 RCP examiner.
Career:Guy's & Lewisham Hospitals,The London Chest Hospital, The National Heart Hospital, King's College Hospital.
J.C.H.M.T. Accreditation 1990 in Cardiovascular Medicine.
Practicing in Adult General Cardiology, including coronary care,echocardiography and 2 interventional catheter laboratory sessions.



 

 

 



 

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