Dr Moj Goonewardene

Bedford Hospital

Consultant Cardiologist

BM MRCP (UK) CCDS

Dr Goonewardene is a certified cardiac device specialist with the American International Board of Heart Rhythm Examiners and is accredited in adult echocardiography and doppler with the British Society of Echocardiography.

Dr Moj Goonewardene sees patients with breathlessness, palpitations, dizziness, collapsing, high blood pressure and chest pain. As well as general cardiology he has a specialist interest in heart failure, primary prevention of cardiovascular disease, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, loop recorder implantation, pacemaker implantation, cardiac resynchronisation therapy and implantable cardio defibrillators.

His specialty training in cardiology took place in several large tertiary referral centres such as Southampton University Hospital and Bristol Heart Institute-University Hospital Bristol. The last 2 years of his training was spent at Papworth Hospital (the UK's largest specialist cardiothoracic unit), training in cardiac device implantation, advanced heart failure and cardiac transplantation.

In February 2016 he was appointed Consultant Cardiologist at Bedford NHS Hospital. He is leading the heart failure and cardiac device service at Bedford Hospital and visits Papworth Hospital implanting complex cardiac devices.