Dr Will Davies is a Consultant Cardiologist at Royal Papworth Hospital with specialist interests in percutaneous coronary intervention for coronary artery disease and structural intervention for degenerative valvular disease.
Dr Davies graduated from the University of Sheffield in 1998, gaining clinical distinctions and prizes at Final MB ChB. He then undertook training in Cardiothoracic Surgery, and was awarded Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons in 2001.
During his period of surgical training, Dr Davies was appointed as the William J von Liebig Scholar in Cardiothoracic Transplantation at the Mayo Clinic, USA where he studied towards a Doctor of Philosophy research degree. His work on the role of circulating progenitor cells post cardiac transplantation led to him being honoured with the Mayo Clinic and Foundation Award for Individual Excellence.
On returning to the UK he worked as a Specialist Registrar for 18 months on the cardiac surgery service here at Papworth, including a six month period within the Transplant Team.
Having experienced first-hand the exciting advances in minimally invasive valve therapies whilst in the US, Dr Davies undertook cardiology training within the Eastern Deanery and gained Membership of the Royal College of Physicians in 2009. His Fellowship at St Thomas’ Hospital, London afforded him the opportunity to work alongside the pioneers in the field of minimally-invasive heart valve implantation.
Dr Davies’s unique training in both cardiac surgery and cardiology allows him to understand the relative strengths and weaknesses of both specialties when dealing with the patient with complex cardiac pathology.
Dr Davies is also the driving force behind our Laudit positive reporting system, used by the staff here at Royal Papworth since 2018. The reporting tool allows our staff to provide peer-to-peer recognition and celebrate the everyday extraordinary steps they take to improve the patient experience and to support each other. Find out more at laudit.org.uk
Coronary artery disease and percutaneous coronary intervention
Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI)
The evaluation of novel transcatheter valve technologies
Risk stratification in TAVI
Circulating progenitor cells in cardiac disease
Cardiac transplantation
April 2009 - Doctor of Philosophy - Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA and University of Sheffield, UK
March 2009 - Membership of the Royal College of Physicians (UK)
November 2001- Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons of England
July 1998 - MB ChB from the University of Sheffield
July 1993 - BSc Honours Degree in Biological Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK
General Medical Council (GMC number 4516545)
British Cardiovascular Society
British Cardiovascular Intervention Society
Royal College of Physicians, UK
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Resuscitation Council, UK
Mayo Clinic Alumni Association
Book Chapters
Davies WR and Redwood SR “Laser Therapy for Intervention in Saphenous Vein Graft Stenoses” in Lasers in Cardiovascular Intervention Springer, In Press
Davies WR and O’Sullivan M “Percutaneous Intervention on the Mitral Valve” in Core Topics in Cardiac Surgery Cambridge University Press, In Press.
Davies WR and Parameshwar J “Heart Failure and Transplantation” in Landmark Papers in Cardiology, Oxford University Press. Published September 2012.
Pandey A, Davies WR, Calvert PA.A fatal case of infective endocarditis complicated by acute COVID-19 pneumonia. Oxf Med Case Reports. 2021 Dec 28;2021(11-12):
Fathi AS, Ali JM, Mann S, Taghavi J, Davies WR, Sudarshan C.Emergency valve-in-valve transcatheter aortic valve implantation for endocarditis degeneration. J Card Surg. 2020 Mar;35(3):713-715
Gue YX, Sayers M, Whitby BT, Kanji R, Adatia K, Smith R, Davies WR, Perperoglou A, Potpara TS, Lip GYH, Gorog DA.Usefulness of the NULL-PLEASE Score to Predict Survival in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest. Am J Med. 2020 Nov;133(11):1328-1335.
Valchanov K, Krishnan U, Hoole SP, Davies WR, Pettit S, Jones N, Parmar J, Catarino P, Osman M, Berman M. COVID-19 patient with coronary thrombosis supported with ECMO and Impella 5.0 ventricular assist device: a case report. Eur Heart J Case Rep. 2020 Nov 20;4(6):1-6
Hoole SP, Hernández-Sánchez J, Davies WR, McNab DC, Calvert PA, Rana BS, Shapiro LM, Davies MG. Effects of Patent Foramen Ovale Closure on Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome: PCOSA Study. Can J Cardiol. 2017 Dec;33(12):1708-1715. doi: 10.1016/j.cjca.2017.09.005. Epub 2017 Sep 12
Axell RG, Giblett JP, White PA, Klein A, Hampton-Til J, O'Sullivan M, Braganza D, Davies WR, West NEJ, Densem CG, Hoole SP. Stunning and Right Ventricular Dysfunction Is Induced by Coronary Balloon Occlusion and Rapid Pacing in Humans: Insights From Right Ventricular Conductance Catheter Studies. J Am Heart Assoc. 2017 Jun 6;6(6). pii: e005820.
Axell RG, White PA, Giblett JP, Williams L, Rana BS, Klein A, O'Sullivan M, Davies WR, Densem CG, Hoole SP. Rapid Pacing-Induced Right Ventricular Dysfunction Is Evident After Balloon-Expandable Transfemoral Aortic Valve Replacement. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2017 Feb 21;69(7):903-904. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2016.12.011.
Calvert PA, Northridge DB, Malik IS, Shapiro L, Ludman P, Qureshi SA, Mullen M, Henderson R, Turner M, Been M, Walsh KP, Casserly I, Morrison L, Walker NL, Thomson J, Spence MS, Mahadevan VS, Hoye A, MacCarthy PA, Daniels MJ, Clift P, Davies WR, Adamson PD, Morgan G, Aggarwal SK, Ismail Y, Ormerod JO, Khan HR, Chandran SS, de Giovanni J, Rana BS, Ormerod O, Hildick-Smith D. Percutaneous Device Closure of Paravalvular Leak: Combined Experience From the United Kingdom and Ireland. Circulation. 2016 Sep 27;134(13):934-44. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.116.022684. Epub 2016 Sep 1. Erratum in: Circulation. 2016 Nov 1;134(18):e403.
Patterson T, Davies WR, Rajani R, Redwood S, Young C, Thomas M, Bosmans J, Rodrigus I, Melnitchouk SI, Sundt TM 3rd. How should I treat a patient with a mechanical aortic valve prosthesis and recurrent intracranial bleeding on anticoagulation with a patent LIMA to LAD? EuroIntervention. 2016 Jun 20;12(3):408-11. doi: 10.4244/EIJV12I3A69.
Bapat VP, Davies WR, Bolter K, Hancock J, Young C, Redwood S, Thomas M. The Use of Balloon Expandable Transcatheter Valves for Valve-in-Valve Implantation in Patients with Degenerative Stentless Aortic Bioprostheses: Technical Considerations. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2014;148:917-24
Davies WR, Bapat V, Hancock JE, Young C, Redwood SR, Thomas MR. The Development of a Novel Technique for the Placement of a Balloon Expandable Transcatheter Aortic Valve Bioprosthesis without Prior Balloon Aortic Valvuloplasty. EuroInterv 2014;10:248-252
Davies WR and Thomas MR. European experience and perspectives on transcatheter aortic valve replacement. Prog Cardiovasc Dis. 2014 May-Jun;56(6):625-34
Davies WR and Redwood SR. New Advances in the Management of Aortic Stenosis. GM2 2013 Sept 43;45-48
Davies WR, Brown AJ, Watson W, McCormick LM, West NE, Dutka DP and Hoole SP. Remote Ischaemic Preconditioning Improves Outcome at 6 Years in Elective Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: The CRISP Stent Trial Long-term Follow-up. Circ Cardiovasc Interv. 2013 Jun 1;6(3):246-61
Clarke SC and Davies WR. Conference, conscience and climate. Heart 2013, 99, 15-16
Patel N, Ariyarathenam A, Davies WR and Harris A. Acute Cholecystitis Leading to Ischaemic ECG Changes in a Patient with No Underlying Cardiac Disease. Journal of the Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons 2011;15:105-108
Byrne GW, Stalboerger PG, Davila E, Heppelmann CJ, Gazi MH, McGregor HC, LaBreche PT, Davies WR, Rao VP, Oi K, Tazelaar HD, Logan JS, McGregor CG. Proteomic identification of non-Gal antibody targets after pig-to-primate cardiac xenotransplantation. Xenotransplantation. 2008 Jul;15(4):268-76.
Byrne GW, Davies WR, Oi K, Rao VP, Ricci D, Tazelaar HD, Waker RC, Logan JS, McGregor CG. Increased immunosuppression, not anticoagulation, extends cardiac xenograft survival. Transplantation. 2006 Dec; 82(12) 1787-91
Lim E, Drain A, Davies WR, Edmounds L, Rosengard, B. A systematic review of randomised trials comparing revascularisation rate and graft patency of off-pump and conventional coronary surgery. (2006) J Thorac Cardiovascular Surg. Dec; 132(6):1409-13
Oi K, Davies WR, Tazelaar HD, Bailey KR, Federspiel MJ, Russell SJ, McGregor CGA. Ex Vivo hypothermic recirculatory adenoviral gene transfer to the transplanted pig heart. (2006) J Gene Med 8:795-803
Davies WR and Wallwork J. The Case Against Off-Pump Cardiac Surgery. Invited article as part of a series of “Controversies in Surgery”. for the Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, March 2006
Davila E, Byrne GW, LaBreche PT, McGregor HC, Schwab AK, Davies WR, Rao VP, Oi K, Tazelaar HD, Logan JS, McGregor CG.T-cell responses during pig-to-primate Xenotransplantation. Xenotransplantation. 2006 Jan; 13(1): 31-40
Davies WR, Wang S, Oi K, Bailey KR, Tazelaar HD, Caplice NM, McGregor CGA. Cyclosporine decreases vascular progenitor cell numbers following cardiac transplantation and attenuates progenitor cell growth in vitro. J Heart Lung Transplant. 2005 Nov; 24 (11): 1868-77
McGregor CGA, Davies WR, Oi K, Teotia SS, Schirmer JM, Risdahl JM, Tazelaar HD, Kremers WK, Walker RC, Byrne GW, Logan JS. Cardiac xenotransplantation: Recent preclinical progress with three-month median survival. (2005) The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery. 130:844-851
For a full list of publications is available on Pubmed.
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