Dr Dougal McClean MB ChB, MD, FRACP, FCSANZ is an interventional and general cardiologist working in private practice at Cardiology Specialists and also at Christchurch Hospital.
Dougal has been in private practice at Cardiology Specialists since January 2004 and specializes in all aspects of clinical cardiology with a special focus on chest pain, complex coronary artery stenting, and cardiac risk stratification, in addition to cholesterol lowering, palpitations, atrial fibrillation, new heart murmurs, heart failure, and high blood pressure.
Dougal has over 14 years experience as a Consultant Cardiologist at Christchurch Hospital in all aspects of clinical cardiology including angina, sudden heart attacks, acute rhythm disorders including atrial fibrillation and SVT, different types of heart murmurs, all aspects of weak hearts (heart failure), and high blood pressure. He holds a joint appointment as a Clinical Senior Lecturer, University of Otago, Christchurch.
As an interventional cardiologist, special interests include complex percutaneous interventions, and new interventional devices and techniques to improve patient outcomes. He is an experienced Interventional Cardiologist at Christchurch Hospital implanting stents for severe coronary narrowings and specializes in complex coronary artery stenting including double branch (bifurcation) stenting, arteries occluded for some time (chronic total occlusions), high-speed drill for hardened narrowings (rotational atherectomy), coronary stenting as an alternative to coronary artery bypass surgery (left main and multi-vessel stenting), and imaging of inside of coronary artery. Dougal is an experienced interventional researcher in new metallic stent designs, fully bioresorbable drug eluting scaffolds, and imaging the inside of the coronary artery to assess unstable cholesterol plaque using optical coherence tomography (OCT), with over 60 publications in peer reviewed journals. He is a past chairman of the CSANZ NZ interventional working group.
Dougal continues the practice established by Prof Hamid Ikram who remains involved at Cardiology Specialists.
Cardiology Specialist Diagnostics
This is the cardiology testing service which General Practitioners can arrange without a consultation.
These tests include:
Resting ECG
Exercise ECG
Echocardiography
24 hour Holter Monitor
24 hour Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitor
Spirometry pre and post Ventolin
To download a testing form, please click here
What is Cardiology?
Cardiology is the specialty within medicine that looks at the heart and blood vessels. Your heart consists of 4 chambers, which are responsible for pumping blood to your lungs and then the rest of your body. The study of the heart includes the heart muscle (the myocardium), the valves within the heart between the chambers, the blood vessels that supply blood (and hence oxygen and nutrients) to the heart muscle, and the electrical system of the heart which is what controls the heart rate.
