- Fee assured
- Verified account
- Open Referral network
Specialises in
- General cardiology
- Structural/Heart failure
Offers
- Face-to-face consultations
- Video and telephone consultations
About me
Dr Ben Szwejkowski, MBChB, MD, FRCPEd
Dr. Szwejkowski is a Consultant Cardiologist based at Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee. Originally from Sheffield, Dr. Szwejkowski graduated from the University of Dundee in 2004 and was appointed as a Consultant Cardiologist in NHS Tayside in 2015. He is fully trained and widely experienced in all aspects of general cardiology. Extensive cardiology training took place in Edinburgh, Dundee and Glasgow finishing with a fellowship at the National Advanced Heart Failure Unit, Golden Jubilee National Hospital, in advanced heart failure and complex cardiac devices in 2014.
Dr Szwejkowski is widely published in cardiology and heart failure and was awarded Doctor of Medicine (MD) in 2014. He is also board certified in Cardiac devices (CCDS) and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh.
Currently he is clinical lead for Cardiology, NHS Tayside. He has undertaken extensive research, recently he was the Principle Investigator locally for a National trial into intravenous iron in heart failure IRONMAN UK. Dr Szwejkowski is involved in teaching at the University of Dundee and is one of the Cardiovascular Block Convenors.
Dr Szwejkowski's current practice involves all aspects of general cardiology, heart failure, pacemaker device implantation and follow up, heart rhythm management and cardiac investigations including transoesophageal echocardiography, heart monitoring, loop recorder implantation and echocardiography interpretation.
Dr Szwejkowski is kind and compassionate and manages all aspects of cardiology including assessment of suspected heart failure, heart valve problems, unexplained breathlessness, chest pain and angina, blackouts and palpitation.
Areas of interest
Heart failure; breathlessness; palpitation; arrhythmia; atrial fibrillation; chest pain; coronary artery disease; valvular heart disease and murmurs; hypertension; syncope.
Pacemakers; cardiac resynchroniaation therapy (CRT); defibrillators (ICD); loop recorder (ILR); ECG.
Age range 18 and over.
Medical secretaries
- Michelle Burns
- Tayside Complete Health 3&7 Commercial Street Dundee DD1 3DA
- 01382 549088
- mburns@taysidecompletehealth.com