Dr Nickolaos John Pantazopoulos FRCP FESC
Consultant Cardiologist & Course Director
Dr Pantazopoulos was appointed a Consultant Cardiologist at West Middlesex University Hospital, now part of Chelsea & Westminster NHS Foundation Trust since 2006.
Apart from his clinical work, he currently holds the following offices: Director of Clinical Studies for Imperial College School of Medicine, West Middlesex University Hospital; Clinical Lead for Cardiology, BUPA Basinghall Clinic; Medical Accreditation Committee Member, BMI Syon Clinic; Medical Accreditation Group Member, ICS Diagnostics.
Chelsea & Westminster NHS Foundation Trust
Dr Pantazopoulos has published multiple abstracts and original articles, with echocardiographic indices of systemic disease being his main research interest.
Titles and awards: 1994: MBBS, University of Queensland, Australia 2003: Specialist Title of Cardiology, Athens, Greece 2005: Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology 2010: Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians 2015: Level III, Cardiac CT interpretation, Johns Hopkins University, USA Level 3 Clinical Excellence Award, Chelsea & Westminster NHS Foundation Trust.
He is an avid outdoor enthusiast, who enjoys hiking, astrophotography and travelling to exotic destinations, while he also enjoys reading biographies and ancient history.
Dr. Raffi Kaprielian
Consultant Cardiologist & Course Director
Dr. Raffi Kaprielian serves as a Consultant Cardiologist at 2 leading London Teaching Hospitals. He holds joint NHS appointments at West Middlesex University Hospital (Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust, and Hammersmith Hospitals (Imperial Hospitals NHS Trust). He is a Clinical Teacher and Educational Supervisor to both Imperial College School of Medicine undergraduate and postgraduate programs.
Chelsea & Westminster NHS Foundation Trust
A 1989 Guy’s Hospital Medical School (U.M.D.S) Clinical Medicine graduate, Dr. Kaprielian also attended Trinity College in Oxford for his undergraduate degree. He obtained a Masters degree from the University of London for his research work in the Cell Biology of Cardiac disease in 1998.
In 2006 he was elected Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians.
Dr. Kaprielian holds a level 2 accreditation in performing and reporting CT angiography. He is trained in Clinical Echocardiography (both transthoracic and trans oesophageal) and has clinical expertise in Coronary Intervention, Pacing/Device Therapy and General Cardiology.
Dr Kaprielian has published throughout his career. He has been a member of the Imperial Hospitals NHS Trust coronary research team, with numerous recent publications in the field of coronary physiology and the use of the instantaneous free wave ratio (iFR) in assessment of coronary artery disease over the past 7 years. He has also published from his cell biology MD work in mechanisms of cardiac dysfunction as well as being the local Principal Investigator for multicentre research projects such as the Euroaspire Surveys and Alecardio randomized clinical trial.
This background reflects commitment to continually learning and positively contributing to medical knowledge in his chosen field.
Our Lecturers
Dr. Gajen Sunthar Kanaganayagam
Consultant Cardiologist at Imperial College Healthcare & Chelsea and Westminster.
Honorary senior lecturer in cardiology, Imperial College London. United Kingdom.
Prof. Neil Ruparelia
BSc (Hons), MB, BS, MSc, DPhil, FRCP, FESC.
Consultant Interventional Cardiologist.
Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer.
Dr. Sukhjinder Singh Nijjer
Consultant Cardiologist, Full time NHS post, since Oct. 2016.
Joint appointment, Chelsea & Westminster NHS Foundation Trust and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.
Dr. Carol Whelan
Consultant Cardiologist at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.
NICE committee in their evaluation of two novel treatments, inotersen and patisiran, for hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis. These have both been approved in the UK.
Dr. Robert D. Smith
Consultant Interventional Cardiologist at the Royal Brompton & Harefield Hospitals.
Dr. Ee Ling Heng
Consultant Cardiologist in Adult Congenital Heart Disease & Structure Intervention at Royal Brompton & Harfield Hospitals.
Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust.
Dr. Francesco Lo Monaco
Specialist in Cardiology at Chelsea and Westminster NHS Trust. Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at Imperial College School of Medicine. International Lecturer in Echocardiography.
Medical Director and Founder of Harley Street International Polyclinic.
Postdoctoral Researcher in Cardiology at New York Medical College.
Royal College of Physicians Associate Member.
Dr. Emmanuel Ako
Consultant cardiologist at Royal Brompton and Harefield hospitals.
Consultant at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
Interventional Cardiologist at Barts Health NHS Trust.
Dr. Deepa Gopalan
Consultant Cardiac Radiologist, Imperial College London & Cambridge University Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom.