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Our consultant directory offers information on who our consultants are, their specialities and where they are based.
If you have an enquiry relating to your appointment or your treatment, you should contact the relevant department instead of your individual consultant to ensure that our clinical support team can provide you with the right support to your enquiry in a timely manner.
Oliver Segal is a Consultant Cardiologist & Electrophysiologist at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital and at University College London Hospital (UCLH), where he is also lead for arrhythmia.
He qualified from King’s College Hospital in 1995 and trained in cardiology at the London Chest and St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, before completing a doctorate in mapping complex ventricular arrhythmias at The National Heart & Lung Foundation, Imperial College, London and St Mary’s Hospital. He was awarded First Prize for Clinical research at the Young Investigator Award at the Heart Rhythm Society in the US for part of this work in 2004.
On his return to clinical medicine, he trained in electrophysiology & cardiac devices at The Heart Hospital, St. George’s Hospital and completed an overseas Fellowship at Prof. George Klein’s prestigious Electrophysiology Unit in London, Ontario in 2007.
Dr Segal was appointed a Consultant Cardiologist & Electrophysiologist at The Heart Hospital, UCLH in 2008, moving to Barts in 2015 when services were transferred. Dr Segal continues to see outpatients at UCLH, where he is also lead for arrhythmia.
Dr Oliver Segal has >20 years’ experience in the management of arrhythmias, performing catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation and other arrhythmias, as well as implanting pacemakers, defibrillators and other cardiac devices. He specialises in electrophysiology – the study of heart rhythm disorders.
He focuses on seeing patients with rapid palpitations and tachycardias, irregular heartbeats, ectopic or ‘skipped’ beats, pauses and slow heartbeats, dizzy spells and blackouts, including patients with breathlessness and tiredness due to atrial fibrillation (AF). He is an expert in performing electrophysiology studies, catheter ablation for all types of arrhythmia and implanting pacemakers, defibrillators (ICDs), loop recorders and biventricular pacing systems.
He has performed >2,000 electrophysiology studies and ablations (including the use of 3-dimensional mapping systems) and >2,000 device implantation procedures, including leadless and conduction system pacing. He also performs pacemaker lead extraction and left atrial appendage occlusion device implantation (Amulet devices) for patients with AF and high risk of stroke who cannot take anticoagulants or when anticoagulants have failed.
Dr Segal has undertaken research in numerous areas of electrophysiology and devices, including AF ablation, mapping and ablation of ventricular tachycardia, created an algorithm to detect VT origin from ECG morphology, developed a novel pacing manoeuvre to diagnose different types of SVT, developed a clinical risk score to identify responders to CRT devices and in the areas of left atrial appendage occlusion devices and leadless pacing. He continues to work in these areas as well as in the field of myotonic dystrophy and the heart.
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