Cardiologists

Prof Ken McDonald

Professor Ken McDonald is a Consultant Cardiologist in St. Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.  He is also a lecturer in Medicine at University College Dublin specialising in heart failure and interventional cardiology.

Professor McDonald qualified from UCD medical school in 1981 and trained in St. Vincent's Hospital before moving to the University of Minnesota USA in 1988. Between 1991 and 1996 he held the position of Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Minnesota and was subsequently promoted to Associate Professor of Medicine in 1996.  

Prof. McDonald is chairman of the Irish Heart Foundation Council on Heart Failure.

He has had a longstanding research interest in Heart Failure focusing primarily on the areas of ventricular remodelling, prevention of heart failure and health care delivery of heart failure services.