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Professor Bill McEvoy

Professor Bill McEvoy

CDP-CDP Core Partner
National University of Ireland, Galway; University College Hospital Galway; and National Institute for Preventive Cardiology (NIPC).

Dr. J. William ("Bill") McEvoy MB BCh BAO, MEd, MHS, FRCPI is Professor of Preventive Cardiology at the National University of Ireland, Galway campus, and a Consultant Cardiologist at University College Hospital Galway. He also serves as Medical and Research Director of the National Institute for Preventive Cardiology (NIPC).

Prof. McEvoy is a 2004 first class honors graduate of UCC School of Medicine, Cork, Ireland. He undertook senior house officer and cardiology registrar training at the Mater University Hospital in Dublin. In 2008, he joined the Osler Medical Housestaff at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. After internal medicine residency, he subsequently completed cardiology fellowship at Hopkins including advanced training in cardiac prevention, cardiac imaging, and cardiovascular epidemiology. Prior to returning to Ireland in 2018, Prof. McEvoy was an Assistant Professor on the cardiology faculty at Johns Hopkins for 3 years. Prof. McEvoy’s research focuses on hypertension and atherosclerosis. He was on the writing committee for the 2019 AHA/ACC primary CVD prevention guideline. He is on the international editorial board of Elsevier Practice-Update Cardiology.

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