Ian Purcell

Consultant interventional cardiologist / Clinical director of adult and paediatric cardio-respiratory medicine
Cardiothoracic Unit, Freeman Hospital

Graduated from Edinburgh in 1990.

After house jobs in Edinburgh was appointed to medical rotation in Newcastle.

Cardiology specialist training at the Freeman, Newcastle and the Royal Brompton and St George's Hospitals, London.

MD from Imperial College National Heart and Lung Institute.

Consultant interventional cardiologist at the Freeman since 2002.

Clinical director of cardiothoracic medicine in Newcastle Hospitals Trust since 2007.