Cardiology Clinic

Cardiology Clinic Consultants

Dr Zaheer Yousef

Consultant Cardiologist and Physician
BSc (hons) MBBS MD MRCP FESC

Dr Zaheer Yousef is a Consultant Cardiologist who runs private Cardiology consultant clinics from Vale Healthcare - south Wales' leading private hospital and private clinics in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan. Dr Yousef's current NHS and University posts are as a Consultant Cardiologist at the University Hospital of Wales and Llandough Hospital in South Wales and honorary senior lecturer at Cardiff University. He is lead clinician for heart failure, devices for heart failure, and clinical governance at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff.

Following on from his first first medical qualification in 1992 at Guys Hospital, London Dr Yousef has developed special clinical interests in heart failure, cardiomyopathies, biventricular pacemaker implantation (resynchronisation pacemakers for heart failure), implantation of internal defibrillators, and general clinical cardiology.

As well at these clinical interests, Dr Yousef's research interests are cardiac resynchronisation therapy (biventricular and pacing), heart failure, management of patients after myocardial infarction.

Current memberships of professional, national and regional bodies: Royal College of Physicians, British Cardiovascular Society, Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology, British Society of Heart Failure, British Society of Echocardiography. Secretaryof the Welsh Heart Failure Forum.

Zaheer Yousef is Accredited in Adult Cardiology and General Medicine. He was appointed as a NHS Consultant in 2005 and gained a British Heart Foundation Programme Grant 1997-2000. He was awarded Young Investigator of the Year (London) in 1999. Dr Yousef undertakes cardiac catheterisation and advanced pacemaker implantation at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff and regularly delivers lectures and physician training at National and International meetings.

A tight head prop and first team squash player in his youth for Guys Hospital, Dr Yousef is now more often involved in watching sports than playing them, devoting more time these days to house restoration.