Dr Simon Woldman

Biography & Education

About Dr Simon Woldman

Professor 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.

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.

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

Professional Memberships

Fellow Royal College Physisicans Lodnon and Glasgow Fellow European Society of Cardiology Fellow Heart Failure Association of Europe Member British Society for Heart Failure

GMC Number

3405316

NHS Base

Barts Health NHS Trust