Dr Gosia Wamil

I am a Consultant Cardiologist. I see people who are breathless, who have chest pain or palpitations, who have fainted or felt lightheaded, and people who have been told a scan or an ECG showed something they do not understand. Many come to me because a symptom has not been explained, or because a diagnosis has been made and they want to be sure it is right.

My training is in cardiac imaging, and that shapes how I work. Cardiac MRI, CT and advanced echocardiography can answer questions that a single test cannot, and used together they often settle a question that has been open for months. But a scan is only useful if someone explains what it means. My job is to work out what is happening, tell you plainly, and recommend only what will change something.

At Mayo Clinic Healthcare in London I run one-stop clinics: assessment, the tests you need and a follow-up discussion, all on the same day. Most people leave with an answer rather than another appointment.

I qualified in medicine in 2003 and was awarded a British Heart Foundation fellowship, completing an MSc and PhD in cardiovascular science at the University of Edinburgh. I then trained in cardiology at the Oxford University Hospitals between 2008 and 2017, with fellowships in cardiovascular medicine, advanced cardiac imaging, and heart failure and inherited cardiomyopathies. During that period I gained formal accreditation in echocardiography, cardiac CT and cardiac magnetic resonance — the three imaging modalities I use most. I went on to a British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence post-doctoral fellowship in cardiovascular imaging at the University of Oxford, and completed an MSc in Clinical Trials at Oxford, sponsored by the European Society of Cardiology. I am a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP) and a Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology (FESC).

I see private patients at Mayo Clinic Healthcare in London and at Nuffield Health, The Manor Hospital in Oxford, and I hold an NHS consultant post at Great Western Hospital in Swindon. I am an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Mayo Clinic and an Honorary Research Fellow in Deep Medicine at the University of Oxford.

Alongside clinical work I remain an active researcher. My work spans molecular biology and drug development through to large randomised controlled trials, with a focus on the cardiovascular complications of diabetes and how heart failure develops in people with metabolic disease. I have also contributed to National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) work on diabetes-related heart disease. Research keeps me current, and it is part of why patients and colleagues ask me for second opinions.