William O'Neill

William O'Neill, M.D.
Henry Ford Hospital
Medical Director, Center for Structural Heart Disease
Member since 2014

William O'Neill, M.D., is an internationally recognized leader in interventional cardiology known for pioneering research in new techniques to diagnose and treat heart attacks.

Dr. O'Neill has been the recipient of numerous honors and awards as an innovator in medicine, a leader in academic and teaching hospitals and a widely published author.

Dr. O'Neill was involved in seminal trials that spurred important changes in the treatment of heart attacks around the world, including intracoronary streptokinase therapy and emergency angioplasty. He contributed to research demonstrating that heart attack patients have a 90-minute window for treatment before heart muscle begins to die. In 2005, Dr. O'Neill performed the first transvascular aortic valve replacement in the United States as part of a national clinical trial. He also pioneered the mechanical rotary atherectomy technique, using a catheter with a rotating, diamond-tipped burr to carve away and disintegrate plaque that obstructs arteries.

He is a founding member of the American Board of Internal Medicine interventional cardiology board, which certifies all interventional cardiologists. The author of more than 300 peer-reviewed articles and abstracts published in medical literature, Dr. O'Neill has written numerous book chapters and edited one of the first textbooks in the field of interventional cardiology.

Dr. O'Neil's honors include Best Doctors in America, America's Top Doctors and Who's Who in America; Wayne State University School of Medicine Alumni Association's Distinguished Alumni Award (1999); the American Academy of Medical Administrators Nycomed Amersham Award of Excellence (2000) and the TCT (Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics) Lifetime Achievement Award (2002).

Dr. O'Neill received his medical degree from Wayne State University School of Medicine in 1977. He completed his residency training in internal medicine at the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1978, and in cardiology at the University of Michigan in 1982.