About us

Current practice and expertise

Dr David Lipkin specialises in many forms of coronary intervention including, but not limited to, assessment of chest pain; coronary artery disease, and coronary angioplasty and stenting. He has specific interests in heart failure/valvular heart disease, pacing, hypertension and blackouts.

Dr Lipkin has been the cardiology representative on the MAC committee at The Wellington Hospital part of HCA Healthcare UK for over 10 years and until recently he has been the Medical Director of the Wellington Diagnostic Outpatient Clinic in Golders Green from its inception. Originally he set up the clinic with approximately 25 colleagues in different branches of medicine and surgery. The clinic is very successful.

Experience and other roles

Dr Lipkin trained at the London Chest Hospital, the Royal Brompton Hospital, and both The National Heart (now University College Hospital) and Hammersmith Hospitals. 

Following his extensive training, Dr Lipkin was appointed Catheter Lab Director at the Royal Free Hospital, where he still works as  Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant Cardiologist.

He is published widely, having written notable research papers in adult cardiology, as well as Coronary Care Manual (Oxford University Press), and a number of other major cardiology textbooks. 

Current practice and expertise

A consultant cardiologist with a special interest in chest pain and coronary interventions, Dr Guttmann is based at The Wellington Hospital and the Golders Green Outpatients and Diagnostics Centre, both part of HCA Healthcare UK. He also has an NHS practice at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, where he’s Clinical Lead for the Coronary Catheter Laboratories at Barts Heart Centre. 

Dr Guttmann treats all aspects of general adult cardiology and helps patients with symptoms including high blood pressure, palpitations, and high cholesterol. He also runs a myocarditis and inflammatory heart muscle clinic, seeing patients with cardiomyopathies, particularly myocarditis and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

Experience and other roles

Dr Guttmann gained his medical qualification from University College London (UCL) in 2005, along with a first-class degree in neuroscience from Cambridge University, before becoming a member of the Royal College of Physicians in 2008. Following this, Dr Guttmann trained in cardiology at the Heart Hospital, the London Chest Hospital, and Barts Heart Centre. 

He later achieved an MD (Res) degree from UCL for his work on atrial fibrillation and stroke in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. His interest in research has seen him publish work in the areas of inherited inflammatory heart disease, cardiomyopathy risk stratification, and minimally invasive coronary intervention outcomes.

In addition, Dr Guttmann is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, a Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology, an honorary associate professor at UCL, and an editor for Cochrane Heart.