Professor Aaron Peace

Professor Aaron Peace is a practicing Cardiologist, who subspecialises in Interventional Cardiology with particular interest in performing Complex stent implantation procedures. He is the Director of Research and Development at the Western Health and Social Care Trust and Visiting Professor to the Ulster University (UU) Personalised Medicine Centre in UU School of Medicine.

After training in Queen’s University, Belfast, he worked in Royal Northshore Hospital, Sydney and then onto Dublin, where he completed his higher training in Cardiology. During his training he was awarded a Health Research Board Clinical Fellowship completing a PhD in Platelet biology.

Following subspecialty training in Interventional Cardiology in the world-renowned Cardiovascular Centre, OLV, Aalst, Belgium, he moved back to Northern Ireland to set up the Primary PCI services for Northern Ireland so that every citizen had access to the gold standard management of major heart attacks 24/7. In 2016 he helped with colleagues to extend this service to the people of Donegal forming a new unique Cross Border service that continues to run successfully.

Professor Peace is Chair of the Honest Broker Governance Committee which oversees access to healthcare information for NI citizens and is Co-Chair of the Northern Ireland Trusted Research Environment (NITRE) Steering Committee. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the European Heart Journal - Digital Health and the European Association of Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions (EAPCI) - Innovations and Digital Cardiology Committee. He has received numerous research grants and awards both nationally and internationally with around 100 peer reviewed publications. He provides reviews for many international peer review medical journals. He is a Fellow of both the Royal College of Physicians and European Society of Cardiology and Member of the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland. He is a former serving member of the Irish Cardiac Society.  

Professor Peace is the CEO of C-TRIC, a non-for-profit clinical research company and facility that delivers research for the NHS, industry and academic investigators. He is clinical lead for the C-TRIC component of the Derry/Londonderry City and Growth Deal. He is an advisor to the Information Governance Advisory Council in NI and to one of the Scientific Advisory Boards within the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), a UK Government agency.

Personal profile

Professor Peace is married with 4 children and is a huge sports fan.