Dr James Wilkinson

I am the administrative partner for the private group Wessex Cardiology. My private practice mirrors my NHS practice. I offer private pacemakers and angiograms at Spire Southampton. More complex procedures such as stents and PCI are done at University Hospital Southampton where a greater range of specialised equipment and backup are available. A mitral edge-to-edge repair service is currently being set up at Spire Southampton.

I have been a Consultant Interventional Cardiologist at University Hospital Southampton (UHS) since July 2011, where I run NHS lists, clinics and on-call for the heart attack service. I am the clinical lead for the cardiac catheter lab user group and complex coronary service at UHS. The regional cardiac interventional clinical lead (Specialised Commissioning, NHS South East Region) and the clinical lead for the HIOW ICB cardiac delivery network. I also run a weekly NHS clinic at Lymington New Forest Hospital, where I have been a visiting consultant 2011. I was an Honorary Consultant at Salisbury 2011-2014, where I completed procedural lists twice a month.

My specialist area's of interest are:

• Coronary intervention, including complex coronary intervention, rotablation and treatment of chronic total occlusions (CTOs) i.e. arteries that have been blocked a long time). |He set up the CTO service at Southampton and is the clinical lead. Most of this work is done via the radial route (wrist artery).
• Mitral valve edge to edge repair (mTEER) for severely leaking mitral valves and he does these procedures with Dr Mahmoudi at UHS on the NHS. They are just setting up a Tricuspid programme on the NHS.
• Renal denervation (RDN) to treat high blood pressure (hypertension), he established this service at UHS.

I treat all aspects of general cardiology, I also have echocardiography experience and can implant permanent pacemakers.

I qualified in 1995 from St George's Hospital Medical School, where I was President of the student union. I completed my intercalated BSc at St Mary's Hospital Medical School in 1994. And did house jobs and general professional training in London, obtaining my MRCP qualification in 1999. My specialist registrar training in Cardiology was on the NE Thames rotation from 2000 to 2010, where I obtained my certificate of completion of training. I was awarded FRCP in 2014.

I have a strong background in Medical Education and spent a year as an Education Research Fellow at the Royal College of Physicians in 2003, where I was involved in the development of new assessment methods that are now used for doctors in training. I have taught as faculty for the Doctors as Educators programme since 2003. And have an interest in the use of simulators to train cardiologists. I have published in education and regularly peer reviews education papers. I am a Wessex Educational Supervisor and the local lead for simulation based training in cardiology. I have been on various national education committees in Cardiology and regularly organise conferences and courses both locally and nationally. I also completed a PhD in cell biology and I regularly contribute to clinic research at UHS.

I completed my sub-specialist training in intervention at two internationally renowned cardiac units, St Bartholomew's and the London Chest Hospital. I have experience of novel ways of completing day-case work, the development of heart attack services and experience with new interventional techniques. In my final year I also did General Internal Medicine at the Royal London Hospital and am dual accredited in this. And worked as a locum consultant for Barts and the London NHS Trust prior to my appointment at UHS.