Dr Tim Kinnaird

Tim Kinnaird is a private Consultant Cardiologist who practices primarily from Vale Healthcare's Cardiff Bay Clinic in south Wales. Vale Healthcare operates South Wales' premier private hospital and private clinics in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan.

Tim is an interventional cardiologist and specialises in coronary angiography and coronary angioplasty, performing over 500 procedures each year. The majority of these procedures are performed from the wrist thus facilitating patients discharge home the same day.  These techniques were acquired during training in Cardiff, Vancouver and London, followed by 3-years in Washington DC at one of the major heart centres in North America. His special interests include angina, ultrasound of the coronary arteries, chest pain after bypass, and valvular heart disease.

As well as his private heart consultant role, Tim is a consultant cardiologist at Cardiff and Vale NHS Trust seeing and treating patients both at the University Hospital of Wales and at Llandough Hospital. He is also an Honorary Lecturer at Cardiff University, actively participating in undergraduate teaching.

In addition he maintains a strong research interest having authored over 70 papers, abstracts and book chapters. He continues to undertake research in collaboration on a local, national and international basis. He is a member of several national professional bodies. He also lectures and trains other clinicians in the UK and on an international basis, and is an external PhD examiner for several overseas universities.

Tim performs office-based cardiac assessment including exercise electrocardiograms and cardiac ultrasound (echocardiography) and offers a full range of invasive cardiac tests and treatments including coronary angiography, intravascular ultrasound, intra-coronary pressure measurements, and coronary angioplasty.