Staff
Dr Joseph Galvin
Dr. Joe Galvin is a Consultant Cardiologist / Electrophysiologist attached to the Mater and Connolly
Hospitals in Dublin. He qualified from RCSI in 1988 and trained in New York, Vermont and Boston. His special
interests are Cardiac Arrhythmias, catheter ablation and prevention of sudden arrhythmic death. Dr Galvin is
a national opinion leader in the field on sudden death, and he is also principle investigator in the sudden cardiac
death registry project.
Dr Ted Keelan
Dr Keelan graduated in Medicine from UCD, and trained in Cardiology in the Mater, the Hammersmith Hospital in London, the Mayo Clinic and Milwaukee. He is a consultant cardiologist with special interest in
electrophysiology and arrhythmia, and he holds appointments to Connolly Hospital in Blanchardstown and the Mater Misericordiae Hospital.
Dr Niall Mahon
Dr Mahon is a medical graduate of UCD. He has worked in Cardiology in hospitals in Ireland, in St. George's Hospital in London, and in the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. He now holds an appointment in the Mater
Misericordiae Hospital as a consultant cardiologist with a special interest in cardiomyopathy and heart failure.
Dr James O'Neill
Dr O'Neill is a UCD graduate. He trained in Cardiology in the Mater and Connolly Hospitals, and after a fellowship in the Cleveland Clinic, now has an appointment to Connolly Hospital in Blanchardstown and
the Mater Misericordiae Hospital as a consultant cardiologist with a special interest in heart failure.
Dr Catherine McGorrian
Dr McGorrian is a cardiologist and epidemiologist. She trained in the Mater and AMNCH hospitals in Ireland, and in McMaster Hospital in Canada. She works as a cardiologist in the Heart House Family
Screening unit, and is coordinating the Heart House research projects.
Ms Catherine O'Donnell
Ms O'Donnell is a specialist nurse in cardiology. She has worked in the Mater Misericordiae Hospital as an arrhythmia specialist nurse. Since January 2007 she has specialised in family heart screening, and
has coordinated services in the Heart House family screening unit. She has been a speaker at national cardiac death study days.
Ms Brenda Fleming