Dr Mark McGuire (Cardiologist)
- Name
- Dr Mark Ashton McGuire
- Qualifications
- Bachelor of Medicine / Bachelor of Surgery 1982
- FRACP 1989
- Occupation
- Cardiologist
- Gender
- Male
- Medical Specialties
- Cardiology
Professor Mark McGuire is a cardiologist and specialist cardiac electrophysiologist (a doctor who specialises in the treatment of abnormal heart rhythms). He graduated in Medicine from the University of New South Wales with First Class Honours. He trained in internal medicine and cardiology at St Vincent’s and Westmead Hospitals in Sydney. He was Clinical Superintendent of Westmead Hospital in 1991 and 1992. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Medicine from the University of Sydney and spent 2 years doing post-doctoral research in Amsterdam at the Academic Medical Centre and University of Amsterdam. Professor returned to Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in 1994, where he founded the Cardiac Arrhythmia Service. He is a Senior Staff Specialist at Royal Prince Alfred and Prince of Wales Hospitals and is a Visiting Medical Officer at the Eastern Heart Clinic. He is a Clinical Professor of Medicine in the University of Sydney. Professor McGuire is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand. Professor McGuire regularly performs cardiac electrophysiological studies and catheter ablations for abnormal heart rhythms and has performed more than 8,000 of these procedures, including more than 500 ablation procedures for atrial fibrillation. Professor McGuire’s research interests include supraventricular tachycardia, sudden death in the young, arrhythmias in patients with complex congenital heart disease, atrial fibrillation and, in particular, the biophysics of cryoablation of atrial fibrillation. He teaches medical students at the University of Sydney. He has served on the editorial boards of two major medical journals specialising in abnormal heart rhythms (Heart Rhythm and the Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology)
- Hospital Affiliations
- Prince of Wales Private Hospital
- Strathfield Private Hospital
- Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
- The Mater Hospital
- Eastern Heart Clinic
- Affiliated Clinics
- Heart Rhythm Centre
- Mosman Cardiology
Practice Locations
NSW
- Address
- Strathfield Private Hospital
3-5 Everton Rd
Strathfield NSW 2135
Australia
- Phone
- 02 9953 6285
- Address
- Mater Misercordiae Hospital
25 Rocklands Rd
Wollstonecraft NSW 2065
Australia
- Phone
- 02 9953 6285
- Heart Rhythm Centre
- Address
- RPAH Medical Centre
Suite 204 Level 2
100 Carillion Avenue
Newtown NSW 2042
Australia
- Phone
- 02 9519 5922
- Fax
- 02 9519 5944
- Eastern Heart Clinic
- Address
- Campus Centre Building
Level 3
Barker Street
Randwick NSW 2031
Australia
- Phone
- 02 9382 0700
- Fax
- 02 9382 0799
