South Wales Heart Centre
In Association with Spire Cardiff Hospital, South Wales

Dr Peter O'Callaghan MB BCh BAO Bsc

• Special clinical interests

  •  Investigation of patients with palpitations, bradycardias, tachycardias, blackouts, syncope
  • Cardiac arrest survivors
  • Assessment of individual sudden cardiac death risk and families with inherited arrhymia disorders
  • Management of all arrhythmia disorders including WPW syndrome and atrial fibrillation
  • Cardioversion of atrial fibrillation
  • Ablation and cure of tachycardias (AVNRT, accessory pathways, WPW syndrome, atrial flutter
  • Device implantation including pacemakers, Implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs),
  • Implantable loop recorders (Reveal devices)
  • Workup and management of medically refractory heart failure patients including
  • Implantation of biventricular pacemakers
    

   
  Research interests

   

  Surgical techniques to cure atrial fibrillation

  Outcome measures of RF ablation
  Effects of NICE ICD guidelines on clinical practice
  

   
  Current NHS and /or university posts

   

  Consultant cardiologist and Electrophysiologist, University hospital of Wales cardiff

   
  Year of first medical qualification

   

  1988

   
  Current membership(s) of professional, national and regional bodies

   

  Fellow of the Royal college of physicians of Ireland (FRCPI)
  Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians London (FRCP)
  Fellow of the American college of Cardiology (FACC)
  Heart Rhythm UK Member
  Heart Rhythm Society Member
  International Board of Heart Rhythm Examiners 2009 -  2019
  

   

  Contact Details

   

  Telephone number to make private appointment

  029 2073 6011

   
   

  More about Dr Peter O'Callaghan 

  Dr O'Callaghan is the lead clinician for heart rhythm and pacing services at the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, providing tertiary referral services for South East Wales, a referral population of 1.3 million. Prior to his consultant appointment in 2001 he trained at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston and St George's Hospital, London having entered the speciality of electrophysiology in 1994.

  Dr O'Callaghan's main interests lie in curing ablatable tachycardias and implantation of devices to prevent blackouts or sudden death (pacemakers and defibrillators) or to treat heart failure (biventricular pacmakers).

  At Spire Cardiff Hospital Dr O'Callaghan provides a comprehensive electrophysiology service including the investigation and management of patients with palpitations, blackouts and cardiac arrest survivors or their family members; management of atrial fibrilation, Wolff Parkinson White Syndome, SVTs; ablation of tachycardias and implantation of pacemakers, defibrillators and biventricular pacing systems.
   

  More on Dr O'Callaghan