Dr Oliver Guttmann

Dr Oliver Guttmann is a Consultant Cardiologist with a special interest in chest pain and coronary interventions. He is based at The Wellington Hospital and the Golders Green Outpatients and Diagnostics Centre. Dr Guttmann and his colleague Dr David Lipkin have recently formed Lipkin & Guttmann Cardiology Practice, to treat patients in all areas of adult cardiology.

Dr Guttmann treats all aspects of general adult cardiology and sees patients with symptoms  such as high blood pressure, palpitations, and  high cholesterol. He also runs a myocarditis/ inflammatory heart muscle clinic seeing patients  with cardiomyopathies, particularly myocarditis  and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

Gaining his medical qualification in 2005 from Cambridge University and University College London (UCL), Dr Guttmann then became a member of the Royal College of Physicians in 2008. He spent time training at a number of hospitals including the Heart Hospital, the London Chest Hospital, and Barts Heart Centre. In 2016 he received an MD (Res) degree for research into atrial fibrillation and stroke in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Dr Guttmann has since published several articles in the areas of inherited inflammatory heart disease, cardiomyopathy risk stratification, and percutaneous coronary intervention outcomes.

Dr Guttmann also practices at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, where he is the clinical lead for the Coronary Catheter Laboratories at Barts Heart Centre. He is also the clinical lead for the inherited cardiovascular conditions (ICC) service. He is as an Honorary Associate Professor at UCL and is a proposal editor for Cochrane Heart. In addition, he is a member of the working group on pericardial and myocardial disease of the European Society of Cardiology, while being on the Finance Committee of the British Cardiovascular Society.