Dr Yvonne Smyth
Hospital
Tralee
Department
Cardiology Services
Specialties
Cardiology
Biography
Dr Yvonne Smyth MB FRCPI MA graduated from NUIG in 1997. She completed her internship and General Professional Training in University Hospital Galway. Thereafter she worked in Beaumont, Tallaght and Cork and Galway University Hospitals as part of the Cardiology Specialist Registrar training program. She was enrolled in the specialist division of the medical registrar in both Cardiology and General Internal Medicine in 2007.
Her particular areas of interest include prevention, implantable cardiac devices and cardiovascular imaging and heart failure. She undertook a subspecialty fellowship in Cardiovascular Imaging in the Cleveland Clinic USA and achieved level III board certification from the American Society of Echocardiography in 2008 and 2018.
In 2008, Dr Smyth was appointed as a Consultant Cardiologist in Bon Secours and Kerry General Hospital Tralee. In 2013, she took up a joint Cardiology/Acute Medicine consultant post in University Hospital Galway and commenced work in Bon Secours Hospital Galway. In 2015 she became Co-Lead for the National Acute Medicine Programme. She has a MA in Healthcare Management, Diploma in Clinical Education and is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland.
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