Prof Ronan Margey

Biography

Consultant Cardiologist

Originally from Letterkenny, Co. Donegal, Prof Margey graduated with a first class honours degree from University College Dublin in 2001 after being awarded several undergraduate academic prizes and medals. After completing general internal medicine training and higher specialist medical training in cardiology at the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital and Beaumont Hospital, he undertook three sequential fellowships at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston; coronary interventional fellowship, vascular medicine and endovascular intervention fellowship, and uniquely, the only US standalone fellowship programme in Structural Heart and Adult Congenital Heart disease intervention at that time, performing 1000 procedures during the three fellowship programmes.

After completing training, he joined the faculty of the University of Connecticut Medical School as Assistant Professor of Medicine and became Director of Structural and Adult Congenital Heart Interventions, and Consultant Interventional Cardiologist at Hartford Hospital, Connecticut, USA. He subsequently became the lead consultant cardiologist at the Mater Private Hospital, Cork and subsequent Clinical Director of the hospital. He headed an expanding department of cardiology for 11 years as well as delivering complex coronary and structural heart disease interventional services throughout that time. In January 2025 he rejoined the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital as a consultant cardiology with special interest in interventional cardiology and structural heart disease. He was appointed a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at University College Dublin.

He has a postgraduate Executive Master’s degree in Health Economics and Cardiovascular Disease Quality and Outcomes Research from the London School of Economics. Following on from his interest in quality of medical care, Prof Margey wasbappointed the National Clinical Lead for the National Heart Attack Audit within thebNational Office of Clinical Audit (NOCA) in 2020, successfully launching the national audit for ST elevation myocardial infarction and has been principal author on four national reports of STEMI hospital care since.

Prof Margey has academic and clinical research interests in interventional cardiology and structural heart disease/valvular heart disease and has been involved in multiple clinical trial evaluations of novel treatments in interventional and structural heart disease. He has authored several academic research papers and book chapters and was awarded the Young Investigator Award by the Irish Cardiac Society in 2010.

Professor Margey has clinical practice interests in coronary heart disease, angiography and interventional procedures, vascular medicine and intervention, valvular and structural heart disease and structural heart interventions including TAVI, mitral valve and tricuspid valve percutaneous repair, transcatheter ASD/PFO/VSD/LAA closure procedures.