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Dr Simon Woldman is the Director of Barts Heart Centre and a
Consultant Cardiologist there and at University College Hospital. Barts Heart
Centre is one of the largest cardiovascular centres in Europe.

Dr Woldman provides private outpatient consultations at the
Clementine Churchill Hospital (Harrow) and at London Medical (Marylebone High
Street). In April or May 2022, The Nuffield Hospital will open on the St Bartholomews
Hospital site and a clinic will start on every second week.

He is highly experienced in chest pain, breathlessness,
heart palpitations, ankle swelling and collapse episodes. He has a special
clinical interest in heart failure and infective endocarditis - a condition
where bacteria or fungi infect the valves of the heart.

Dr Woldman completed his medical degree at Glasgow
University in 1989. He was awarded the Andrew J. Hutton Medal and Prize in
Surgery and the Asher Asher Memorial Medal and Prize in Otolaryngology. Most of
his training was within the West of Scotland, and he took up his first
Consultant post in 2001 at Ayr Hospital. In 2002 he gained a doctorate (MD)
from the University of Glasgow, before moving to the UCL Hospitals NHS (UCLH)
Trust as Consultant Cardiologist.

The cardiology department at UCLH merged with that from St
Bartholomew's Hospital and the London Chest Hospital in 2015 to form Barts
Heart Centre. Dr Woldman became Director
in 2019.

Dr Woldman is also chair on the North London Cardiac Operational
Delivery Network that assists NHS hospitals to deliver cardiac care across
North London. .