Professor Andrew Sharp

Professor Sharp qualified from Edinburgh Medical School in 1998 and is Chair of Cardiology at University College Dublin and the Mater Misericordiae Hospital in Dublin, Ireland. He conducted his early training at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, before moving to London for his senior clinical training, completing the Milan-Imperial Interventional Cardiology fellowship before beginning senior clinical practice in the UK in Exeter and Cardiff. Prof Sharp was awarded an MD postgraduate research degree from the University of Edinburgh for his work on the hypertensive heart and his current research interests include device-based treatments for hypertension, catheter-directed treatments for pulmonary embolism, valvular heart disease, intracoronary imaging and coronary physiology.