Dr Costas O’Mahony is a consultant cardiologist based at the Centre for Inherited Cardiovascular Disease Unit at St Bartholomew’s Hospital in London UK and leads the alcohol septal ablation programme. He studied medicine at Imperial College London and graduated with a first-class BSc(Hons) in immunology in 1998 and with distinction in medicine in 2001. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. Dr O’Mahony was awarded an MD(Res) by University College London for research in sudden cardiac death in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. He contributed to the 2014 ESC guidelines on the diagnosis and management of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and led the development and validation of a risk prediction model for sudden cardiac death in HCM (HCM Risk-SCD). He is an honorary associate professor at the Institute of Cardiovascular Science at University College London and his current research is focused on clinical outcomes in cardiomyopathies and stereotactic radiotherapy for the treatment of symptomatic left ventricular outflow tract obstruction. Dr O’Mahony runs a specialist cardiomyopathy clinic and performs invasive haemodynamic assessments, cardiac biopsies, alcohol septal ablation and percutaneous coronary intervention.
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