Professor Bernard David Prendergast

Professor Prendergast is Chair of Cardiology at The Cleveland Clinic London and a Consultant Cardiologist at St Thomas’ Hospital. Before recruitment to London, he trained in Cardiology in Cardiff, Paris and Edinburgh and undertook Consultant posts at Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester (2001-2007) and the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford (2007-2015). Professor Prendergast is a national and international key opinion leader and in frequent demand as a lecturer and speaker. He has been Honorary Secretary of the British Cardiovascular and Cardiovascular Intervention Societies, and Chairman of the European Society of Cardiology Working Group on Valvular Heart Disease. Research interests, which are delivered via collaborative links between London and Oxford, focus on the epidemiology and treatment of valvular heart disease and he is Course Director of PCR London Valves, the world’s largest specialist meeting in valve intervention.