Ioannis Levantakis CARDIOLOGIST CLINICAL

Education & Academic Qualifications

2018 EACVI Level III Accreditation in Cardiac MRI
02/2015 EACVI Award as Highest Scoring Candidate for 2014
01/2015 EACVI Accreditation in Transoesophageal Echocardiography
01/2015 BSCI Level II Accreditation in Cardiac CT
01/2012 Certificate of Completion of Training in Cardiology (Greek Cardiology Boards, Athens)
06/2011 ESC Accreditation in Transthoracic Echocardiography
11/2001 Recognition of “Doctor of General Medicine” diploma as totally equivalent and corresponding to the Greek primary medical qualification (“Ptychio Iatrikes”), by the Inter-University Center for the Recognition of Foreign Academic Titles (ΔΙ.Κ.Α.Τ.Σ.Α.), Athens, Greece.
9/1993-9/2000 Medical School, English Program of the University of Szeged, Hungary
16/9/2000 “Doctor of General Medicine” degree University of Szeged, Hungary

Clinical Cardiac Imaging Skills

Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Level III Accreditation by the EACVI
(Royal Brompton Hospital RBH & Barts Heart Centre BHC, London UK)
Transoesophageal Echocardiography
Accredited by the EACVI specialised at point of reference London Hospitals, as above
(KCH, HH, RBH, BHC)
Stress Echocardiography ( +ESE)
Fully competent specialised at point of reference London Hospitals, as above. (KCH, HH, BHC)
Transthoracic Echocardiography (+ Advanced Studies)
Accredited by the EACVI specialised at point of reference London Hospitals, as above
(KCH, HH, BHC)
Cardiac CT
Level II Accreditation by the BSCI (KCH, BHC, UHL)
Nuclear Cardiac Imaging
Level I Competencies (BHC)

Doctoral thesis

2000 “Vesicoureteric reflux in children. An overview”
Department of Paediatrics, University of Szeged, HU

Fellowship in Societies, Membership in Journal Editorial Committees

General Medical Council, UK ID 6093656
Full Membership – License to practice
Renewal Date: 09/2017
European Society of Cardiology ID 408626
European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI)
Renewal Date: 01/2017
Acute Cardiovascular Care Association
Renewal Date: 01/2017
Heart Failure Association of the ESC (HFA)
Renewal Date: 01/2017
Advanced Cardiac Life Support
Renewal Date: 03/2014
Advanced Life Support
Renewal Date 06/2016
PanHellenic Association for Continual Medical Research (PACMeR)

Work Experience

03/2019- Today Clinical Director, Echocardiography Department
HYGEIA Hospital, Athens, Greece and
Consultant Cardiologist, Private Practice, Voula, Attica
01/2017- 10/2018 Consultant Cardiologist with interest in Echocardiography / Cardiac Imaging Echocardiography Lead of Service University Hospital Lewisham, London, UK and
Consultant Cardiologist in Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Department
St. Thomas Hospital, London, UK
04/2015- 12/2016 Senior Clinical Fellow in Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging
The Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK
06/2015- 03/2016 Senior Clinical Fellow in Advanced Cardiac Imaging
Barts Heart Centre, London, UK
09/2013- 06/2015 Senior Clinical Fellow in Advanced Echocardiography
King’s College Hospital, London, UK
11/2012- 09/2013 Senior Clinical Fellow in Peri-Procedural, Peri-Operative Echocardiography
The Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK
4/2012- 10/2012 Specialist Registrar in Cardiology
Newham University Hospital, London, UK
11/2010- 12/2011 Specialist Registrar in Cardiology
“Asklepeion” General Hospital, Athens, GR
04/2010- 11/2010 Clinical fellow in Echocardiography
Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK
06/2008- 04/2010 Specialist Registrar in Cardiology
“Asklepeion” General Hospital, Athens, GR
04/2007- 02/2008 Specialist Registrar in Renal Medicine
University Hospital Of Ioannina, GR
05/2005- 02/2007 Specialist Registrar in Internal Medicine
General Hospital Of Serres, GR
02/2004-07/2004 Senior House Officer (Military Service) in Cardiology
496 General Military Hospital, Didimoticho, GR
12/2002-10/2003 Senior House Officer in Cardiology and Accident & Emergency
General Hospital Of Sitia, Crete, GR
9/2002-12/2002 House Officer rotation in Cardiology, General Surgery, Internal Medicine
General Hospital Of Sitia, Crete, GR

Management Experience

Managerial and service organisation responsibilities at Echocardiography
UHL, As Lead of service.
Rota management (organising on-call shifts and holiday leaves between SHOs and SpRs).
Outpatient TOE List coordination (nursing staff, anaesthetic staff).
Multidisciplinary team coordination for procedures (Coordination with EP lab for prior ablation TOEs, coordination with surgical team for pre-Mitral repair, TAVI, Mitral clip, LAA occlusion devices and intra-cardiac tumour assessment outpatient TOEs),
Multidisciplinary coordination for inter and intrahospital patient transfer.
KEELE University course on “Clinical Management and Leadership”.

Teaching Experience

Tutoring in Cardiac Imaging (CT, CMR) of junior doctors, Barts Heart Centre, June 2015- March 2016
Mentor at Focused Echocardiography in Emergency Life support – FEEL- UK course (Resuscitation Council UK), Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London, June 2015
Teaching Advanced Echocardiography technics in junior doctors, visiting and honorary fellows, Kings College Hospital, London, September 2013 – June 2015
Mentor at Focused Echocardiography in Emergency Life support – FEEL- UK course (Resuscitation Council UK), Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield, July 2013
Mentor at Focused Echocardiography in Emergency Life support – FEEL- UK course (Resuscitation Council UK), Kings College Hospital, London, June 2013
Mentor at Focused Echocardiography in Emergency Life support – FEEL- UK course (Resuscitation Council UK), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, May 2013
Transthoracic -Transoesophageal Echocardiography and Echocardiography in ICU tutoring in Clinical Fellows, SpRs and SHOs in Cardiology and Intensive Care Department, November 2012 – September 2013.
“Heart failure diagnosis and treatment” UCLH teaching session for undergraduate students 06/11/2015
“HCM; ECG and Echocardiographic signs” UCLH teaching session for Undergraduate students 29/10/2015
“Abnormal Septal Convexity in Sub-Clinical HCM” BHC Journal Club session, 28/08/2015
“Albuminuria as a prognostic tool in Acute Heart Failure” Asklepeion General Hospital, Cardiology Department, 2009
“Non-Invasive tests in patients with Coronary Artery Disease” Asklepeion General Hospital, Cardiology Department, 2008
“Systolic blood pressure in Octogenarians” Ioannina University Hospital, Renal Department, 2007
Ward / bedside tutorials on nursing staff and Senior House Officers in basic clinical skills and procedures.
Electrocardiography tutoring of elective medical students and paramedical personnel.

Specialty Courses

2016 Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging Course (Level II/III)
Royal Brompton Hospital, UK
2016 Hammersmith Echocardiography Course
Hammersmith Hospital, UK
2016 Safer Sedation
Royal Brompton Hospital, UK
2015 Safer Airway and Sedation for Non-Anaesthetists (SASNA)
King’s College Hospital, London, UK
2015 Time Management Course
King’s College Hospital , London, UK
2014 Keele Clinical Management and Leadership Course
Keele University, UK
2014 British Heart Valve Society Annual Meeting
Royal Brompton Hospital Campus, London, UK
2014 Advanced Level II Cardiac CT Course
Peninsula Radiology Academy, Plymouth, UK
2014 Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging Level I
King’s College London, Guys and St. Thomas Hospital SCMR, London, UK
2014 Functional Assessment and Risk Stratification in Heart Valve Disease
British Heart Valve Society, King’s College Hospital, London, UK
2013 Safer Sedation
Royal Brompton Hospital, UK
2012 ALS
Newham University Hospital, UK
2010 Hammersmith Echocardiography Course
Hammersmith Hospital, UK
2010 ACLS
“Errikos Dynan” Hospital, Athens GR

Recent Publications

Pavlidis AN, Kallistratos MS, Karamasis GV, Tsoukas AS, Levantakis IP, Mauropoulos D, Manolis AJ. “Diagnosis and risk stratification in acute pulmonary embolism: the role of echocardiography”. Rev Cardiovasc Med (in press)
Kallistratos MS, Pavlidis AN, Tsoukas AS, Mauropoulos D, Levantakis IP, Hesketh G, Manolis AJ. “Late traumatic aortic dissection”. Am J Emerg Med 2011 Sep 9. (Epub ahead of print)
Pavlidis AN, Orfanidis Z, Levantakis I, Giannakopoulos A, Manolis AJ. “Twiddler’s syndrome”. Acute Card Care 2011;13:194.
Pavlidis AN, Tsoukas A, Danias PG, Kallistratos MS, Levantakis I, Manolis AJ. “Five-vessel aortic arch associated with a bicuspid aortic valve”. J Cardiovasc Med (Hagerstown) 2012 Jul;13(7):460-1.
Manetos CM, Pavlidis AN, Kallistratos MS, Tsoukas AS, Chamodraka ES, Levantakis I, Manolis AJ. “Aortic valve endocarditis caused by Brevibacterium epidermidis in an immunocompetent patient”. Am J Med Sci 2011;342:257-258.
Antonakoudis CG, Poulimenos L, Antonakoudis GC, Levantakis I, Manolis AJ. “Pre-Heart Failure: Diagnosis, Treatment and its Contribution in Heart Failure Prevention”. Hellenic Journal of Heart Failure 2008;5:213-220
Zacharias G, Xilomenos A, Koukourakis G, Kamposioras K, Mauri D, Chasioti D, Bristianou M, Ferentinos G, Levantakis I, Tsali L, Valachis A, Karampoiki V. ”Responsibilities in cancer preventive care in Greece. A physicians’ survey”. Clin Transl Oncol 2008;10:231-234

Participations in Clinical Trials

“The Stabilisation of Atherosclerotic plaque by Initiation of darapladib Therapy (STABILITY) trial”
Dates: 04/2009 – 12/2011
Chief Investigator: Pf AJ Manolis
Asklepeion Voula General Hospital, Athens
“Randomized, Double-Blind Study Comparing Once Daily Oral Rivaroxaban With Adjusted-Dose Oral Warfarin for the Prevention of Stroke in Subjects With Non-Valvular Atrial (ROCKET AF)”
Dates: 09/2008 – 12/2011
Chief Investigator: Pf AJ Manolis
Asklepeion Voula General Hospital, Athens