Professor John William Mcevoy

J. William ("Bill") McEvoy is Professor of Preventive Cardiology at NUI Galway and a Consultant Cardiologist at University Hospital Galway, IRL. He also serves as Medical and Research Director of the National Institute for Prevention and Cardiovascular Health (NIPC). Prof. McEvoy is a 2004 first class honours graduate of UCC School of Medicine, Cork, IRL. In 2008, he joined the Osler Medical Housestaff at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He subsequently completed cardiology fellowship at Hopkins including advanced training in cardiac prevention, cardiac imaging, and cardiovascular epidemiology. He holds Masters degrees in cardiovascular epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and in the education of health professionals from the Johns Hopkins School of Education. Prof. McEvoy’s research focuses on testing novel biomarkers of risk and clinical epidemiology; with an emphasis on hypertension and atherosclerosis.