Dr Vasileios Panoulas

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  Dr Vasileios Panoulas is a consultant interventional cardiologist at Harefield Hospital, Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust and honorary senior clinical lecturer at Imperial College London. He has clinical expertise that encompasses both general an interventional cardiology (complex PCI, management of cardiogenic shock and transcatheter aortic valve implantation).After graduating from the School of Medicine at the University of Ioannina, Greece, Dr Panoulas completed a PhD in genetic regulation of hypertension in patients with rheumatoid arthritis in Birmingham. He also holds an MSc in interventional cardiology from Universita Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy.
  
  He underwent his core medical training at Guys and St Thomas' Hospitals and his cardiology core training at Hammersmith Hospital, where he was appointed as a National Heart and Lung Institute (NIHR) academic clinical fellow (2010-2013). He also undertook an interventional cardiology fellowship at San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy (2013-2014) and subsequently was a North-West London interventional fellow for two years at Hammersmith Hospital (2014-2016), Imperial College NHS Trust. From 2014-2016 he was an NIHR Walport Clinical Lecturer at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London.
  
  He is a member of the Royal College of Physicians and a fellow of the European Society of Cardiology. Other qualifications include certification in adult transthoracic echocardiography from the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACV); and computed tomography level 2 accreditation from the British Society of Cardiovascular Imaging.
  

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  Complex coronary angioplasty, transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) and percutaneous mechanical assist devices for treatment of acute cardiogenic shock.