Dr Simon MacDonald DPhil FRCP Graduated from Oxford University before junior doctor training in London. Formal adult cardiology training in the Oxford Postgraduate Deanery in the UK with additional training in paediatric cardiology and congenital interventional training fellowships at the The Heart Hospital, London, and the Policlinico San Donato, Milan. DPhil/ PhD in heart developmental genetics as a Wellcome Trust CVRI Prize Clinical Fellow, winning the ESC Young Investigator Award in Basic Science 2007, and the British Cardiovascular Society Young Investigator Award in 2008. First consultant substantive post was in Adult Congenital Heart Disease, Honorary Senior Lecturer in Cardiology at Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, before moving to Barts Heart Centre, London in 2019. Interests: adult congenital heart disease, congenital intervention, pulmonary hypertension in congenital heart disease, outcomes research in ACHD.