Andrew Ludman
Specialises in
General cardiology, heart valve problems, heart muscle disease and heart failure, echocardiography, cardiac CT, cardiac MRI
Areas of interest
Dr Ludman sees patients for all problems that may be related to the heart, including chest pain, palpitations, breathlessness, high blood pressure and reducing the risk of future heart problems.
His sub-specialty interests include heart failure, cardiomyopathy (disease of the heart muscle), heart valve disease and advanced cardiovascular imaging. Dr Ludman can offer expertise in cardiac MRI, cardiac CT, transoesophageal echocardiography, contrast & bubble echo and stress echocardiography with both medications and exercise.
Biography
Dr Ludman is a Consultant Cardiologist with experience in all areas of cardiology. He sees patients for all problems that may be related to the heart, including chest pain, palpitations, breathlessness, high blood pressure and reducing the risk of future heart problems.
His sub-specialty interests include heart failure, cardiomyopathy (disease of the heart muscle), heart valve disease and advanced cardiovascular imaging. Dr Ludman can offer expertise in cardiac MRI, cardiac CT, transoesophageal echocardiography, contrast & bubble echo and stress echocardiography with both medications and exercise.
He qualified from University of Wales College of Medicine in 2002 before pursuing post graduate training in London. Dr Ludman won the prestigious European Society of Cardiology Young Investigator award in 2010 and was awarded a MD research degree from the University College London. Dr Ludman undertook specialty training in Cardiology at the London Chest and St Bartholomew’s Hospitals as well as an international fellowship in Lausanne, Switzerland. He was also the Pan-London Heart Failure Fellow at The Royal Brompton Hospital, a pan-London fellow in cardiovascular CT and trained in cardiovascular MRI at The Heart, Great Ormond Street, The London Chest and The Royal Brompton Hospital’s.
Dr Ludman commenced as a Consultant Cardiologist at the Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital in 2014 and is an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Exeter.
Dr Ludman is currently Vice President – Clinical Standards of the British Cardiovascular Society. He was previously the lead clinician for the Exeter cardiology service and subsequently Clinical Director within the Medical Division of the Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital.
Dr Ludman has been involved in the development of local and national clinical guidelines. He remains actively involved in a broad range of research studies. In addition to numerous research papers, he has written book chapters and textbooks in the fields of heart failure and advanced imaging techniques and teaches the students attending the University of Exeter and Peninsula medical schools.
Outside work Dr Ludman is a keen cyclist, skier and hill walker and can no longer run quite as fast as his boys(!).