Robert Byrne

Professor Robert Byrne is Chair of Cardiovascular Research at the School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences at RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences. He is Director of Cardiology at the Mater Private Hospital and the Cardiovascular Research Institute, Dublin.

Prof. Byrne’s internship and general medical training was undertaken in the Mater Hospital, Dublin and Mayo Clinic, Arizona. His Cardiology fellowship was in Ireland and at the German Heart Centre, Munich, Germany.

Since then he has held several strategic positions at German Heart Centre, including Consultant Cardiologist and Deputy Director of Cardiology. He returns to Ireland to the role of Director of Cardiology at Mater Private Hospital and RCSI Chair of Cardiovascular Research.

Prof. Byrne’s specialty interests are in the field of general and interventional cardiology. Specific areas of expertise are in cardiac catheterization, angioplasty and stenting, optical coherence tomography imaging, interventions for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (alcohol septal ablation), transcatheter mitral valve repair, left atrial appendage occlusion and patent foramen ovale closure.