Dr Joseph Galvin graduated from RCSI, Dublin in 1988 and trained in Dublin, Albany, NY, Burlington, VT and Mass General Hospital, Boston where he was appointed as a Cardiac Electrophysiologist and Director of Cardiac Pacing before returning to the Mater and Connolly Hospitals in Dublin.
His primary interests have been cardiac arrhythmias, catheter ablation and the prevention of sudden cardiac death. He set up the Mater’s Family Heart Screening Clinic in 2007 and along with his colleagues, set up the Irish Inherited Cardiac Conditions Network in 2019.
He helped set up the Mater’s Cardiac Genetics service and the country’s first accredited gene sequencing service at the Mater in 2020.
His research interests include novel catheter ablation and pacing techniques and phenotype genotype correlation in Inherited cardiac conditions.
