William J. Mckenna MD

Dr. William J. McKenna, MD is the CEO and Medical Director of Heart Hospital at HMC Doha, Qatar. He is also an Emeritus Professor of Cardiology at University College London, an Honorary Professor of Medicine at the University of Aberdeen, and an Adjunct Professor in CV Medicine at Yale, where he has contributed to the development of the Inherited Cardiac Disease clinic. His main interests have been in clinical and basic research of cardiomyopathies. His recent work has contributed to the identification of disease-causing genes in HCM, DCM, and ARVC, to the establishment of new diagnostic criteria within the context of familial disease, and to the establishment of algorithms to identify patients at high risk of sudden death. 
Dr. McKenna was born in Canada, completed a BA at Yale University, and graduated from McGill University Medical School with Internal Medicine training at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, and Cardiology at the Hammersmith Hospital/RPMS, London.