Prof Simon Redwood

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Professor Redwood qualified from St. George’s Hospital Medical School, London in 1987. He trained in Cardiology at The Royal London Hospital, The Royal Free Hospital and St. George’s Hospital, London. Interventional training was obtained at The Washington Cardiology Center, Washington, DC and Guy’s and St. Thomas’ Hospitals.

Professor Redwood is Professor of Interventional Cardiology/ Honorary Consultant Cardiologist and Lead for the Structural Heart Service at St. Thomas’, as well as Cath Lab Lead at The Cleveland Clinic London. He was President of the British Cardiovascular Intervention Society from 2012-1016. He has been performing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for over 25 years and is trained in all aspects of adult interventional cardiology including IVUS, pressure wire, stent implantation, rotational atherectomy, laser angioplasty. In addition, he has extensive experience in trans-catheter aortic valve implantation and percutaneous mitral valve interventions.

His has particular interest in interventional cardiology-based research including risk analysis and prediction of events post percutaneous coronary intervention, evaluation of coronary stents, coronary artery and myocardial physiology during ischaemia and the Interventional management of out-of hospital cardiac arrest. He continues to run an active research team, has over 330 publications (H index 66), is lead editor of a major Interventional Cardiology textbook (Oxford Textbook of Interventional Cardiology, 2 editions). He has raised over £10m in grant funding and has supervised >18 MD/PhD theses.