Dr Tom Cahill

MA Camb, MBBS UCL, MRCP, DPhil Oxf
Lecturer in Clinical Medicine

Academic subject(s):

Clinical Medicine

Tom Cahill is a Consultant Cardiologist specialising in structural and coronary intervention at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, and Lecturer in Clinical Medicine at Balliol College, University of Oxford. He graduated from the University of Cambridge (Queens’ College) with a double first-class honours degree and completed his clinical medicine training at University College London. Following rotations in London and Oxford, he undertook specialist training in interventional cardiology at the John Radcliffe Hospital. He then spent two years at the internationally renowned Columbia University Medical Center in New York, where he trained in state-of-the-art techniques for minimally invasive ‘transcatheter’ treatment of valvular and structural heart disease.

Tom completed a DPhil in Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Oxford in 2017, funded by a Wellcome Trust Clinical Training Fellowship. His research experience spans fundamental cardiac biology to clinical outcomes research, with particular focus on patient selection and outcomes after transcatheter heart procedures, interventional cardiology techniques, infective endocarditis, and valvular heart disease. He has published over 100 articles in leading cardiovascular journals, and lectures both nationally and internationally. He is an editor of Emergencies in Cardiology 3rd Edition (Oxford University Press). He holds memberships in the British Society of Cardiology, British Cardiovascular Intervention Society, and British Heart Valve Society.

At Balliol, Tom is responsible for teaching, mentorship and pastoral care of clinical medical students at the college. He teaches all aspects of clinical medicine, with a particular focus on bedside examination, history-taking and communication skills, radiology, diagnostic work-up and interpretation of tests. He also coordinates the group of Clinical Teaching Associates who deliver teaching to Balliol students during the clinical years of the course.