Dr Ben Szwejkowski

I am a Consultant Cardiologist based at Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee. My current practice involves all aspects of general cardiology, heart failure, pacemaker device implantation and follow up, heart rhythm management and cardiac investigations including transoesophageal echocardiography, heart monitoring, loop recorder implantation and echocardiography interpretation.

Originally from Sheffield,I graduated from the University of Dundee in 2004 and was appointed as a Consultant Cardiologist in NHS Tayside in 2015. I am fully trained and widely experienced in all aspects of general cardiology. Extensive cardiology training took place in Edinburgh, Dundee and Glasgow finishing with a fellowship at the National Advanced Heart Failure Unit, Golden Jubilee National Hospital, in advanced heart failure and complex cardiac devices in 2014.

I am widely published in cardiology and heart failure and was awarded Doctor of Medicine (MD) in 2014. I am also board certified in Cardiac devices (CCDS) and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh.

Currently I am clinical lead for Cardiology, NHS Tayside. I have undertaken extensive research, recently I was the Principal Investigator locally for a national trial into intravenous iron in heart failure IRONMAN UK. Dr Szwejkowski is involved in teaching at the University of Dundee and is one of the Cardiovascular Block Convenors. I sit on the board of the Scottish Cardiac Society and the Scottish Heart Failure Hub.

I am kind and compassionate and manages all aspects of cardiology including assessment of chest pain and angina, suspected heart failure, heart valve problems, unexplained breathlessness, blackouts and palpitation.