Alexandros PAPACHRISTIDIS

Dr Alexandros Papachristidis qualified form Athens Medical School in Greece and completed a fellowship in advanced echocardiography along with a PhD course in cardiac imaging at King’s College London, University of London. He was appointed as a Consultant Cardiologist at King’s College Hospital in 2018 and he has a leading role in the echocardiography department. He has a special interest in echocardiography, cardiovascular CT and valvular heart disease including surgical and structural interventions.

He is accredited by the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI) in both transthoracic (TTE) and transoesophageal (TOE) echocardiography and by the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) in cardiovascular computed tomography. He has significant experience in advanced echocardiography including 3D echocardiography, stress echocardiography, and strain analysis along with peri-operative TOE in cardiac surgery, electrophysiology and transcatheter structural interventions.

He is also experienced in both CT coronary angiography and CT for structural interventions such as transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI), transcatheter mitral and tricuspid valve interventions, left atrial appendage occlusion, ventricular septal defect closure and paravalvular leak closure. He has clinical expertise in general cardiac conditions, coronary artery disease and valvular heart disease and he is leading the valve surveillance clinic at King’s. His research interest includes 3D echocardiography, valvular heart disease, artificial intelligence, and development of automated algorithms for 3D imaging processing and analysis.

He is the Primary Investigator of several multi-centre trials. He is the author of more than 60 scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals. He is an Associate Editor in the British Society of Echocardiography’s journal, “Echo Research and Practice”, a member of the Royal College of Physicians (MRCP), the British Society of Echocardiography, the American Society of Echocardiography, the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography, an EACVI Fellow (FEACVI), a Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology (FESC), and a member of the British Heart Valve Society. He has extensive experience in training and teaching including undergraduate students, cardiology trainees, fellows, and sonographers. In addition, he has been an invited faculty in numerous international courses and congresses in the field of echocardiography and CT and he is the director of a 4-day course in Advanced Echocardiography - 3D and strain imaging and a 2 day course in Imaging in Structural Interventions.