Dr James Wilkinson
Consultant Cardiologist
PhD, MRCP, MBBS, BSc
I have been a Consultant Cardiologist in Southampton since July 2011. I also have NHS commitments at Lymington and Salisbury hospitals. My specialist area of interest is coronary intervention (treating narrowings with balloons and stents). I have an interest in complex coronary intervention, chronic total occlusions (chronically blocked arteries), and radial intervention (procedures via the wrist rather than the leg). My other cardiology interests include general cardiology, echocardiography and permanent pacemaker implantation.
I qualified in 1995 from St George’s Hospital Medical School, where I was President of the student union. I did my intercalated BSc at St Mary’s Hospital Medical School in 1994. I did my house jobs and general professional training in London, obtaining my MRCP qualification in 1999. My specialist registrar training in Cardiology was on the NE Thames rotation from 2000 to 2010, when I obtained my certificate of completion of training.
I completed my sub-specialist training in intervention at two internationally renowned cardiac units, St Bartholomew’s and the London Chest Hospital. I have experience of novel ways of doing day-case work, the development of heart attack services and experience with new interventional techniques. In my final year I also did General Internal Medicine at the Royal London Hospital and dual accredited in this. I worked as a locum consultant for Barts and the London NHS Trust prior to my current appointment.
I have a strong background in Medical Education and spent a year as an Education Research Fellow at the Royal College of Physicians in 2003, where I was involved in the development of new assessment methods that are now used for doctors in training. I have taught as faculty for the Doctors as Educators programme since 2003. I have an interest in the use of simulators to train cardiologists.
I am published in education and regularly peer reviews education papers. With a British Heart Foundation Studentship grant I undertook basic science research from 2004-2007 with Professor Sir Salvador Moncada’s group at University College London. This led to the award of a PhD in Cell Biology. I studied the role of mitochondria and reactive oxygen species in cardiovascular aging and disease. I have also been involved in clinical research, which has been presented and published at international meetings.
Treatment information
Some of the principal treatments carried out by Dr James Wilkinson at Spire include:
Cardiology
- Blood pressure test
- Cardiac catheterisation
- Cardiac CT scan (heart CT)
- Cardiac MRI scan (heart MRI)
- Cardiomemo recording
- Cardioversion
- Contrast echocardiogram
- ECG monitoring or event recorder - 24/48 hour
- Exercise ECG
- Stress electrocardiogram
Other treatments
- Interventional cardiology
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Research and publications
Media Coverage
Current NHS posts
University Hospital Southampton, Lymington New Forest Hospital and Salisbury
Personal profile
Outside of medicine James enjoys spending time with his wife Olive (a physiotherapist) and two young girls Annabelle and Rebecca. He grew up in Cowes (IOW) and has a lifelong love of sailing. He is an experienced yacht racer having competed in numerous events such as the Fastnet, Transatlantic and Sydney-Hobart races. He now enjoys getting on the water when time allows! He regularly enjoys cycling, hill walking (having trekked in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Nepal), skiing and collecting malt whiskey and wine.
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Contact information
| Website | http://www.cardiology.co.uk/ |
| Private secretary | Alice Blue |
| Private secretary telephone | 02380914444 |
| Private secretary email | alice@cardiology.co.uk |