Cardiology consultants
Dr Wala Mattar
Name, qualifications:
Dr Wala Mattar, BSc, MD, MRCP UK
Practising at:
West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust
Specialty:
Cardiology
Sub-specialty:
Interventional Cardiolgoy
Special clinical interests:
General cardiology, ischaemic heart disease and angiography/stenting, pacemaker implantation, valvular heart disease, hypertension, palpitations.
Current posts (NHS, University,)
Consultant Cardiologist at West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust – Watford General Hospital Consultant Cardiologist at Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust – Harefield Hospital.
Year of first medical qualification:
2004
Current membership(s) of professional, national and regional bodies:
- British Cardiovascular Intervention Society
- British Cardiovascular Society
- European Society of Cardiology
- British Medical Association
- British Society of Echocardiography
- Editorial board member of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Research Journal
Contact details:
- Secretary's name: Vivien Cawley
- Secretary's telephone number: 01923 436197
- Secretary's email address: westherts.cardio@nhs.net
Background:
Professional profile
I qualified from the Arabian Gulf University in the Kingdom of Bahrain in 2004, then specialised in internal medicine and cardiology. I came to UK in 2011 to train in cardiology at Harefield Hospital. My subspecialty interest is coronary and structural intervention and permanent pacemaker insertion.
In October 2018, I was appointed as a consultant cardiologist at Watford General Hospital and Harefield Hospital.
My specialist experience is in:
- Diagnosis and treatment of coronary artery disease including acute heart attacks
- Coronary artery intervention (coronary angiography and stenting)
- The use of fractional flow reserve (FFR), intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) and optical coherence tomography (OCT)
- Permanent pacemaker insertion
- Percutaneous patent foramen ovale (PFO) closure
- Balloon aortic valvuloplasty
I am the lead cardiologist for PFO closure programme at Watford General Hospital. I chair the weekly joint cardiology and cardiothoracic and the monthly structural multidisciplinary team meetings. I am the lead for British Cardiovascular Intervention Society (BCIS) audit at the West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
I am interested in medical education and regularly train undergraduate medical students and post-graduate trainees. I started cardiology journal club and teaching sessions at Watford General Hospital.
I have been a speaker in international interventional cardiology meetings like EuroPCR and TCT.
