Philip Maccarthy MBChB, PhD, FRCP, FRCP, FESC

Prof Philip MacCarthy is an Interventional Consultant Cardiologist and the Clinical Director for Cardiac Services at King’s. He performs invasive investigations and therapeutic procedures, which include coronary angiography, angioplasty, and stenting. These are done both electively and urgently. He oversees the King’s Primary PCI programme for the emergency treatment of ST-elevation MI, which is done 24/7 for the population of South East London.

He is also the lead for the world-renowned trans-catheter aortic valve (TAVI) programme at King’s. His undergraduate training was at Bristol University Medical School; he trained at Oxford in general medicine and cardiology and then went on to complete general cardiology training at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff. Following his PhD in endothelial function, Prof MacCarthy moved to King’s to specialise in interventional cardiology and was appointed Professor of Interventional Cardiology at King’s College London in 2014.