Dr Gethin R Ellis

Gethin Ellis is a Consultant Cardiologist at Vale Healthcare and brings a  breadth of experience and expertise to his private cardiology consultant practice and general medicine practice in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan's leading private clinics and private hospital - Vale Healthcare.

Gethin is a dually accredited Consultant in Cardiology and General Medicine at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital, South Wales in the newly formed Cwm Taf NHS Trust. He read medicine at the University of Sheffield, achieving an intercalated degree in the medical microbiology department during the course of his studies and graduating in medicine in 1990. He returned to Wales to complete general postgraduate training and later persuing his interest in heart surgery he became a specialist registrar in cardiovascular medicine on the all Wales training scheme. During the course of his specialty training he was awarded a British Heart Foundation fellowship researching chronic heart failure at the Wales Heart Research Institute and gained an MD with distinction in 2000. Having attained specialist accreditation in 2001 he was appointed as a Consultant at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital in the same year and became a Fellow in the Royal College of Physicians in 2005.

At the Royal Glamorgan Hospital, Gethin has led the development of an on site angiography facility, a pacemaker implantation service and a full range of non-invasive cardiac investigations. He is fully accredited in echocardiography and maintains his membership of the British Society of Echocardiography. He has continued his research interests, and written, as well as presented numerous papers largely in the field of heart failure and cardiovascular risk modification. He has also chaired national and regional working groups leading to published clinical guidance and contributed extensively to the National Service Framework for cardiac disease.

Maintaining his sub-specialty interest in heart failure, Gethin has established a heart failure service based on the principle of home-based intervention facilitated by specialist nurses and is the heart failure lead for the South East Wales Cardiac Network. He has also developed rapid access chest pain and atrial fibrillation clinics as well as a special clinic to review those patients that have recently undergone coronary artery surgery or coronary angioplasty.

Gethin is actively involved in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and is an Honorary Clinical Tutor in the University of Wales School of Medicine. He is also the Associate Clinical Director for Medicine at his hospital Trust, has previously held the post of President of the Welsh Cardiac Physiologists’ Society and has recently taken on the role of Honorary Secretary to the Welsh Cardiovascular Society.

Gethin performs coronary angiography at a newly opened facility at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital and at Vale Healthcare's Cardiff Bay Clinic, providing a full range of non-invasive cardiac investigations supported by a team of highly trained nurses.

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