His special interests include general and acute cardiology, chest pain assessment/coronary artery disease, interventional cardiology (angioplasty/stenting), atrial fibrillation, heart failure, cholesterol management and coronary prevention/risk reduction. In addition to an acute cardiac care and outpatient service, Dr Menown successfully undertakes one of the highest annual volumes of interventional cardiology cases in the UK.
Dr Menown received his medical degree with distinction from the Queens University of Belfast and trained in Cardiology at Belfast before completing an interventional fellowship at Vancouver Hospital and Health Sciences Centre, BC, Canada. He obtained a postgraduate doctorate of medicine, the Purce medal and JD Williams prize for his research in improving early detection of acute coronary syndromes and has been elected to Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh.
Dr Menown has been elected to serve on European Society of Cardiology expert groups of Acute Cardiac Care, Cardiovascular Pharmacology & Drug Therapy, and Atherosclerosis & Vascular Biology. He serves as cardiology editor of Advances in Therapy and is on the editorial board of Interventional Cardiology, Future Cardiology and Biomarkers in Medicine. Dr Menown is frequently invited to lecture at national and international meetings and has published over 70 papers and 90 scientific abstracts in fields including acute coronary syndromes, lipids/cholesterol, cardiovascular risk and percutaneous coronary intervention.
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