Andreas Kalogeropoulos CARDIOLOGIST CLINICAL Assistant Director, Cardiology Adult Department, MITERA Hospital

• 2006-2010: PhD – Thesis entitled “Variation of serum inflammatory and fibrosis markers in patients with atrial fibrillation”, National Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens Medical School, Second Department of Cardiology, “ATTIKON” University Hospital (Grade: Distinction)

• Member of the British Cardiovascular Intervention Society-BCIS
• Member of the European Association of Percutaneous Cardiovascular Intervention-EAPCI
• Member of the British Cardiovascular Society – BCS
• Member of the Royal College of Physicians (MRCP)
• Registered in the General Medical Council Specialist Registry for Cardiology
• Member of the Athens Medical Association

• 2017-2019: Consultant Interventional Cardiologist – Complex High-Risk Indicated Percutaneous Coronary Interventions and percutaneous revascularization of coronary chronic total occlusions programme, Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals, Brighton, United Kingdom.
• 2015-2017: Senior Fellow in Interventional Cardiology and Percutaneous Revascularization of Coronary Chronic Total Occlusions, Barts Heart Centre, St Bartholomew’s Hospital, Barts NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom (Educational Supervisor: Dr Elliot Smith).
• 2014-2015: Specialist Registrar in Cardiology, London Chest Hospital, Barts NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom (Educational Supervisor: Dr Mark Westwood).
• 2013-2014: Specialist Registrar in Cardiology, St George’s Hospital, London, United Kingdom (Educational Supervisor: Dr Nicholas Bunce).
• 2012-2013: Ειδικευόμενος καρδιολογίας – Specialist Registrar in Cardiology, Royal Brompton Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom (Educational Supervisor: Professor Peter Collins, Dr Simon Davies).
• 2011-2012: Ειδικευόμενος καρδιολογίας – Specialist Registrar in Cardiology, Ealing Hospital, London, United Kingdom (Educational Supervisor: Prof. Jaspal Kooner).
• 2010-2011: Senior House Officer in Cardiology, Hammersmith Hospital, London, United Kingdom (Educational Supervisor: Prof. Petros Nihoyannopoulos).
• 2009-2010: Resident in Internal Medicine, 5^th Department of Internal Medicine, Evaggelismos Hospital, Athens, Greece (Director: Prof. Athanasios Skoutelis).
• 2006-2008: General Practitioner, General Hospital Agios Panteleimon, Primary Health Care Centre, Karlovasi, Samos, Greece.

Educational Experience

• Educational Supervisor of Interventional Cardiology Fellows, Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals, Brighton, United Kingdom.
• Co-organizer of educational meetings and lectures in the field of interventional cardiology
• Complex percutaneous coronary interventions – Interventional training day

• • “The role of intravascular imaging in complex percutaneous coronary interventions”, Royal College of Physicians, 2018

• Management of patients with acute coronary syndromes – Interventional training day

  • “Antithrombotic therapy in patients with acute coronary syndromes”, Royal College of Physicians, 2017

• Coronary chronic total occlusions – Interventional training day

  • “Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Chronic Total Occlusions: Who should be doing it?”, Royal College of Physicians, 2016

• Acute coronary syndromes
• Complex and high-risk indicated procedures and chronic total occlusions
• Coronary physiology and coronary microcirculation (Fractional Flow Reserve, Coronary Flow Reserve, Index of Microcirculatory Resistance, absolute flow and resistance)
• Stable coronary syndromes, refractory angina and microvascular disease
• Coronary stent optimization
• Intravascular Imaging (intravascular ultrasound/IVUS, optical coherence tomography/OCT/OFDI)

• Complications of Percutaneous Coronary Interventions: The Survival Handbook, Professor Carlo Di Mario. Vasovagal reactions in percutaneous coronary artery interventions, Oct 4, 2016

• Karamasis GV, Keeble TR, Kalogeropoulos AS et al. Resting Full Cycle Ratio (RFR) and instantaneous wave-free ratio (iFR): Simultaneous measurements for assessment of coronary stenosis. Cardiovascular Revascularization Medicine, 2018
• Alsanjari O, Myat A, Cockburn J, Karamasis GV, Hildick-Smith D, Kalogeropoulos AS.
  A case of an obstructive intramural haematoma during percutaneous coronary intervention successfully treated with intima microfenestrations utilizing a cutting balloon inflation technique. Case Reports in Cardiology, 2018
• Karamasis GV, Kalogeropoulos AS et al. Serial Fractional Flow Reserve Measurements
• Post Coronary Chronic Total Occlusion Percutaneous Coronary Intervention. Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions, 2018.
• Karamasis GV, Kalogeropoulos AS et al. Impact of right atrial pressure on fractional flow reserve calculation in the presence of a chronic total occlusion. Cardiovasc Revasc Med. 2018
• Kalogeropoulos AS et al. A case report of successful primary percutaneous coronary intervention in a patient with acute myocardial infarction and cardiac arrest using a novel resuscitation model by integrating combined mechanical chest compressions and intra-aortic balloon pump counter-pulsation. Anesthesia and Analgesia, Jan 2018
• Triantafyllis AS, Kalogeropoulos AS et al. Coronary angiography and interventions in patients with Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia. Rev Esp Cardiol (Engl Ed). 2017
• Kalogeropoulos AS et al. Abiotrophia defectivus infectious endocarditis: Think beyond the heart. Lancet. 2015 Mar 14; 385(9972): 1044
• Triantafyllis AS, Kalogeropoulos AS et al. Coronary Artery Ectasia and Inflammatory Cytokines: Link with a Predominant Th-2 Immune Response? Cytokine, 2013 Oct; 64(1): 427-32
• Kalogeropoulos AS et al. Eosinophilic pneumonia associated with daptomycin: A rare case and literature review. Journal of Medical Case Reports; 2011; 5: 13
• Kalogeropoulos AS et al. Novel association patterns of cardiac remodeling markers in patients with essential hypertension and atrial fibrillation. BMC Cardiovascular Disorders 2011, 11:77