Maria Touloupaki CARDIOLOGIST CLINICAL

• Member of Athens Medical Council.

• Member of the GMC (General Medical Council). Fully registered medical practitioner with specialist registration with a license to practice

• Member of HCS (Hellenic Society of Cardiology).

• Member of the Greek Echocardiography Working Group.

• ESC (European Society of Cardiology) Professional member.

• ACC (American College of Cardiology) International Associate. Member

• Silver Member of the EACVI (European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging).

• SCCT (Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography) International member.

• SCMR (Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance)

• Member of ESC working group of myocardial and pericardial diseases.

• Member of Council on Valvular Heart Disease.

• Member of ESC Cardiologists of Tomorrow-Young Greek Cardiologists

• Reviewer for the Journal BMJ Case Reports

• January 2021-present: Consultant Cardiologist, 6^th Cardiology Department, Hygeia Hospital, Athens, Greece.

• 2019-2020: Cardiologist, Bioiatriki, Cardiac MRI Department, Athens, Greece.

• 2019-2020: Honorary Clinical Fellow in Cardiomyopathies- Inherited Cardiovascular Conditions. Royal Brompton & Harefield Hospitals. London, UK

• 2016-2019: Post CCT Fellow in Cardiomyopathies- Inherited Cardiovascular Conditions. Royal Brompton & Harefield Hospitals, London, UK

• 2016-2019: Post CCT Fellow in Advanced Echocardiography. North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust, London, UK

• 2012- 2016 Cardiology Trainee Cardiology department- University Hospital of Heraklion, Crete, Greece.

• 2010-2011: Internal Medicine Trainee General Hospital of Sitia, Crete, Greece

• 2009: Rural service doctor for the ship Crete, General Hospital of Sitia Crete, Greece

• 2007-2009 Research and Clinical Fellow, Cardiology department- University Hospital of Heraklion, Crete, Greece.

Teaching Experience

• Advanced Life Support (ALS) instructor, European Resuscitation Council

• 2010-2011 Instructor, Technological Educational Institute of Crete- Department of Health, Greece

• Cardiomyopathies – Inherited Cardiovascular Conditions

• Genetic Testing in Cardiomyopathies – Inherited Cardiovascular Conditions

• Advanced Cardiovascular Imaging: Transthoracic echocardiogram (TTE), Transoesophageal echocardiogram (TOE), Stress echocardiogram (DSE and Exercise stress test), Contrast echocardiography, Myocardial deformation techniques, Cardiac MRI (SCMR), Cardiac Computed Tomography (SCCT)

• Sudden Cardiac Death

• Heart Failure

• Athletes’ Screening

• Cardio-Oncology

• Woman and Heart

• Valvular Diseases

• Preventive Cardiology

• 2018 HCS Grant in Cardiomyopathies- Hellenic Society of Cardiology. Royal Brompton & Harefield Hospitals, London UK.

• 2015 Awarded by the Hellenic Medical Society of Consultants Cardiologists for the presentation; Echocardiography: Interesting cases – Eisenmerger-like syndrome, with normal pulmonary artery pressure, in elderly without severe congenital heart disease A. Patrianakos M. Touloupaki, M. Vernardos, M. Hamilos, F. Parthenakis. Cardiology Department-University Hospital of Heraklion 10th congress of clinical cardiovascular diseases

• 2008-Awarded by the Hellenic Cardiological Society for the presentation: Central Aortic Stiffness In Patients With Non-Ischaemic Dilated Cardiomyopathy: Relationship With The Neurohumoral Activation. A.P. Patrianakos, F.I. Parthenakis, E. Nyktari, M. Touloupaki, N. Malliaraki, P.E. Vardas – Department of Cardiology, Heraklion University Hospital, Crete, Greece

• 2001- Grant from the Endowment Committee of the Cretan Association of America for the higher introduction grade in the University of Crete

• Prosthetic mitral valve thrombosis during pregnancy treated successfully with thrombolysis. A.P. Patrianakos, M. Touloupaki, M. Marketou, F.I. Parthenakis Cardiology Department, Heraklion University Hospital, Crete, Greece. Hellenic Journal of Cardiology. Hellenic J Cardiol. 2019 Jan-Feb;60(1):57-58. doi: 10.1016/j.hjc.2018.03.002. Epub 2018 Mar 29.

• Paper of the month(December 2018)– Commentary on the article: Prediction of Life-Threatening Ventricular Arrhythmia in Patients With Arrhythmogenic Cardiomyopathy. A Primary Prevention Cohort Study. Maria Touloupaki, A. Pantazis, London, UK ESC learning platform. Working-Group-on-Myocardial-and-Pericardial-Diseases

• Low Levels of MicroRNA-21 Are a Marker of Reduced Arterial Stiffness in Well-Controlled Hypertension.

Parthenakis F, Marketou M, Kontaraki J, Patrianakos A, Nakou H, Touloupaki M, Vernardos M, Kochiadakis G, Chlouverakis G, Vardas P.

J Clin Hypertens (Greenwich). 2016 Aug 22. doi: 10.1111/jch.12900.