Prof. Mark O'Neill, Consultant Cardiologist and Professor of Electrophysiology

Prof. Mark O'Neill

Consultant Cardiologist and Professor of Electrophysiology

Prof. Mark O'Neill DPhil FRCP FHRS MRCP MB BCh BAO

Consultant Cardiologist and Professor of Electrophysiology

DPhil FRCP FHRS MRCP MB BCh BAO

Prof. Mark O'Neill

Consultant Cardiologist and Professor of Electrophysiology DPhil FRCP FHRS MRCP MB BCh BAO

DPhil FRCP FHRS MRCP MB BCh BAO
Prof.Mark O'Neill,Cardiologist

Prof. O'Neill is a recommended Cardiologist and Professor of Electrophysiology

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What is a heart palpitation and should I be worried?

What is a heart palpitation and should I be worried?

What is atrial fibrillation and is it dangerous?

What is atrial fibrillation and is it dangerous?

Prof. Mark O'Neill - Consulting

Prof. Mark O'Neill - Consulting

Areas of expertise

  • Atrial fibrillation
  • Arrhythmia (irregular heartbeat)
  • Palpitations
  • Breathlessness
  • Atrial flutter

Recommendations for Prof. O'Neill

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Recommended by:

  • byDr Samina Showghi, GP

    Over the 10 years I have known and referred to Mark, he always provides the best care clinically, technically and psychologically to my patients and my family – there is no higher recognition possible. The ‘cardiac electrician’ not to be missed!

  • byDr Brian Clapp, Consultant Cardiologist

    Prof Mark O’Neill is a very knowledgeable specialist within his field of Electrophysiology. He always provides a valuable opinion for patients that I refer to him and, if required, has a high level of technical ability when undertaking procedures. I am confident in recommending him to my patients.

  • byDr James Harrison, Consultant Cardiologist

    Prof. Mark O'Neill is an outstanding clinician, who always provides an excellent opinion for patients with heart rhythm problems. He is an international expert in atrial fibrillation and I have no hesitation in recommending him to my patients.

  • byDr Matthew Wright, Cardiologist and Electrophysiologist

    Prof. Mark O'Neill really cares about individual patients and doing what's safe. He's technically excellent. If it was me, I'd have Prof. Mark O'Neill operate on me.

  • by Dr Sonja Meier, Pain Medicine Specialist

    He is exceptionally professional, compassionate and engaged. I would always recommend him to my friends and family!

  • byDr Samina Showghi, GP

    Over the 10 years I have known and referred to Mark, he always provides the best care clinically, technically and psychologically to my patients and my family – there is no higher recognition possible. The ‘cardiac electrician’ not to be missed!

  • byDr Brian Clapp, Consultant Cardiologist

    Prof Mark O’Neill is a very knowledgeable specialist within his field of Electrophysiology. He always provides a valuable opinion for patients that I refer to him and, if required, has a high level of technical ability when undertaking procedures. I am confident in recommending him to my patients.

  • byDr James Harrison, Consultant Cardiologist

    Prof. Mark O'Neill is an outstanding clinician, who always provides an excellent opinion for patients with heart rhythm problems. He is an international expert in atrial fibrillation and I have no hesitation in recommending him to my patients.

  • byDr Matthew Wright, Cardiologist and Electrophysiologist

    Prof. Mark O'Neill really cares about individual patients and doing what's safe. He's technically excellent. If it was me, I'd have Prof. Mark O'Neill operate on me.

  • by Dr Sonja Meier, Pain Medicine Specialist

    He is exceptionally professional, compassionate and engaged. I would always recommend him to my friends and family!

  • Address

    • The Cardiac Clinic

      St Olaf House, 27 Tooley Street, London, SE1 2PR

    • London Bridge Hospital

      27 Tooley Street, London, SE1 2PR

    • Telephone or video consultation

      Virtual

    About Prof. Mark O'Neill

    GMC number: 4636126

    Year qualified: 1998

    Place of primary qualification: University of Dublin

    Areas of expertise

    • 24 hour blood pressure monitor
    • Adult congenital heart disease
    • AF ablation
    • Ambulatory heart rhythm monitoring (1-14 days)
    • Arrhythmia (irregular heartbeat)
    • Arrhythmia in adult congenital heart disease
    • Atrial fibrillation
    • Atrial flutter
    • Atrial tachycardia
    • Bradycardia
    • Breathlessness
    • Calcium coronary score
    • Cardiac MRI
    • Cardioversion
    • Catheter ablation
    • Chest pain
    • CT coronary angiogram
    • DC cardioversion
    • Dizziness
    • ECG monitor
    • Echocardiogram
    • Electrophysiology study
    • Fainting
    • Health assessments
    • Heart & lung health assessments
    • Heart attack
    • Heart scan
    • Implantable loop recorder
    • Loss of consciousness (syncope)
    • Palpitations
    • Pulmonary vein isolation
    • Stress echocardiogram
    • Supraventricular tachycardia (SVT)
    • Tachycardia
    • Transoesophageal echocardiogram
    • Ventricular fibrillation

    Frequently asked questions

  • What are the common symptoms that your patients tend to present with?

    It's quite varied. If the patient has been appropriately referred, it is usually because of palpitations. That's the most common symptom among the patients that I would see.

    Patients may also be referred with dizzy spells, breathlessness, lightheadedness, or even loss of consciousness. Oftentimes, patients will have researched their symptoms online in advance and will have decided that they should visit a doctor. Ectopic beats are a common symptom for which patients self-refer.

    Sometimes a specific arrhythmia diagnosis has been made or suspected elsewhere and the patient has been referred for specialist arrhythmia-focused investigation and management. The most common confirmed diagnosis made elsewhere and for which I am referred patients is atrial fibrillation. Less common but very amenable to curative treatment is an ECG-confirmed diagnosis of either atrial flutter or supraventricular tachycardia.

    Some patients may have a family history of heart troubles and they just want to be checked out to make sure they don’t have the same problem.

  • What are the treatments that you're able to offer your patients?

    We can investigate and treat every form of heart rhythm disorder. The treatments break down into two broad categories – those for bradycardia (excessively low heart rates) and tachycardia (excessively high heart rates). For bradycardia, the treatment may be implantation of a pacemaker; for tachycardia, the treatments options are broader and depend really very much on the diagnosis. This could vary from medication to catheter ablation to implantation of a defibrillator.

    The majority of our work is seeing patients who have symptoms, but who don’t necessarily need an intervention and distinguishing those from the patients who do need an intervention, or whose quality of life could be improved by considering one.

    The most common intervention by far that we perform is catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation which is not surprising as this is the most common heart rhythm disturbance!

  • What are your areas of sub-specialist interest?

    My practice is built on a strong academic base. I'm engaged in ongoing research into the conditions that I ultimately treat in patients, particularly atrial fibrillation. My team has a very broad-reaching research portfolio to investigate mechanisms of atrial fibrillation, but also to identify the patients who would benefit most from intervention and hopefully to avoid invasive treatments in patients where the likelihood of arrhythmia cure is low.

    Atrial fibrillation is a blunt diagnosis, made on the basis of a single heart rhythm ECG recording but actually it represents a spectrum of electrical disorder of the heart. So, being able to tailor appropriately the investigation and management to the patient in front of us is very important. I would argue that this is something we do very well, helped in part by our extensive research work (over 250 peer-reviewed journal papers) specifically in the investigation and management of atrial fibrillation.

    We also have strong links with cardiac imaging, bioengineering, and computational modelling to support our research in atrial fibrillation. Although we are electrophysiologists, we have access to expertise in these complementary fields that permits us to offer something beyond standard electrophysiological practice. Whether that makes us better or not, I don’t know, but it certainly makes us evidence-based and unlikely to offer treatment on the basis of gut feeling or tradition!

    The investigation and treatment our patients receive are based on the most contemporary data in the field of arrhythmia medicine and where appropriate, our own published work.

  • Professional memberships

    Heart Rhythm Society
    European Heart Rhythm Association
    British Heart Rhythm Society
    General Medical Council
    Independent Doctors Federation grayscale

    Articles by Prof. Mark O'Neill

    Atrial septal defects and patent foramen ovale

    Openep: A cross-platform electroanatomic mapping data format and analysis platform for electrophysiology research

    Standardised computed tomographic assessment of left atrial morphology and tissue thickness in humans

    Assessing the ability of substrate mapping techniques to guide ventricular tachycardia ablation using computational modelling

    Evaluation of accelerated motion-compensated 3D water/fat late gadolinium enhanced MR for atrial wall imaging

    Secondary stroke prevention following embolic stroke of unknown source in the absence of documented atrial fibrillation

    Optimization of late gadolinium enhancement cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging of post-ablation atrial scar

    A comprehensive multi-index cardiac magnetic resonance-guided assessment of atrial fibrillation substrate prior to ablation

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