Luis da Rocha Lopes

Dr Lopes is a Consultant Cardiologist in the Inherited Cardiovascular Diseases Unit at Barts Heart Centre in London and an Honorary Associate Professor at University College London. He obtained his MD from the University of Lisbon in 2001, completed his cardiology training in 2009, and was awarded his PhD in 2015 by the Institute of Cardiovascular Science at UCL. He currently works as a Clinical-Academic Consultant Cardiologist with a dedicated focus on cardiomyopathies, cardiogenetics and cardiac MRI, alongside his academic role at the Centre for Heart Muscle Disease within the Institute of Cardiovascular Science. He also serves as the Cardiology Lead for the North Thames Genomic Laboratory Hub as part of the NHS Genomic Medicine Service.

Dr Lopes’ clinical practice centres on inherited and genetic heart muscle diseases, including hypertrophic, dilated and arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathies, as well as metabolic cardiomyopathies such as Fabry disease. He also has extensive experience in cardiac involvement associated with neuromuscular conditions and mitochondrial cardiomyopathy. His research interests focus on identifying new genetic causes of cardiomyopathy and applying advanced cardiac imaging to develop genotype–phenotype models. He has published widely in high-impact journals and continues to combine clinical care with translational research in inherited cardiovascular disease.