Name
Dr. Cecilia Gonzalez Corcia
Job Title
Consultant Cardiologist and Electrophysiologist (Congenital Heart Disease).
Interests / expertise / research in CHD
Dr Gonzalez Corcia has a clinical and research interest in arrhythmias, and was mentored for her PhD in Brugada syndrome in the young by Professor Pedro Brugada. Thus, she has a special interest in cardiac arrhythmias and inherited cardiac conditions including channelopathies. Her other main clinical interest is interventional electrophysiology in young children and in patients with congenital heart disease. She has published several scientific papers and is frequently invited for presentations to national or international scientific meetings.
Current role and experience
Dr Gonzalez Corcia has been recently appointed as Consultant Cardiologist in the Cardiac Centre at the Bristol Royal Children's Hospital. Her position included holding arrhythmia and pacemaker clinics for children with inherited cardiac conditions both in Bristol and Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton. She carries out interventional arrhythmia procedures in both children and adults including pacemaker defibrillator implantations and ablations.
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Dr Gonzalez Corcia did her medical studies at the University of Buenos Aires 'Hospital de Ninos R. Gutierrez'. She then persued training in Paediatrics in Philadelphia, and continued with a fellowship in Paediatric Cardiology at Boston Children's Hospital. After finishing her subspecialist training in Paediatric Electrophysiology and Pacing, she moved with her family to Belgium where she developed the Paediatric Electrophysiology Program in Clinique St Luc, the Catholic University Hospital in Brussels from 2012 to 2017.
Interests outside of work
Dr Gonzalez Corcia is a hockey player.
