Dr Michael Ward

Dr Michael Ward is an interventional cardiologist at Northern Beaches, Royal North Shore and North Shore Private Hospitals. He trained in Cardiology at Papworth (Cambridge, UK), Royal North Shore and Prince Henry Hospitals. He then undertook a PhD on restenosis after angioplasty and stenting at the Baker Institute in Melbourne before travelling to Stanford University in California where he undertook post-doctoral studies whilst working as Interventional Fellow. He is head of the Vascular Biology Laboratory at the North Shore Heart Research Foundation and his research interests include elucidation of the fundamental mechanisms of arterial remodeling in de nov- atherosclerosis and restenosis, late stent thrombosis, tako-tsub- cardiomyopathy and optimising outcomes in high-risk Dr Michael Ward coronary intervention.