Dr Vasilios Papaioannou
Date: 30 September 2015 10:07
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Tel: 0151 254 3350
About Dr Vasilios (Vas) Papaioannou
Responsibilities at LHCH
- Cardiology and Adult Congenital Heart Disease in the Northwest ACHD Network
- Pulmonary hypertension and adult congenital heart disease
Area of Practice
- ACHD Northwest Network
Special Clinical Interests
- Pulmonary hypertension and adult congenital heart disease
- Intraoperative transoesophageal echocardiogram for ACHD patients
- Transition and transfer of care of paediatric patients to ACHD service
- Pregnancy and ACHD
- Cardiopulmonary exercise test
Research Interests
- Eisenmerger syndrome and Trisomy 21 population
Current Membership of Professional Regional and National Bodies
- RCP London
- Working Groups ACHD-European society of Cardiology
Languages Spoken
- English
- Greek
- French
- A little Italian and Spanish
Training and Education
- Degree in medicine: Aristotelian University Of Thessaloniki-Greece
- Specialization in General Cardiology: G.Gennimatas General Hospital and Hippokration University Hospital. Athens Greece
- 2012-2014: Research and clinical Fellowship Adult Congenital Heart Disease. Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK
- 2014-2015: Clinical Fellowship in ACHD Guys and St Thomas Hospital, London, UK
- 2015-2016: Fellowship in Pulmonary Hypertension. Pulmonary Hypertension Unit - Royal Free Hospital London, UK
- 2016-2018: Fellowship in Adult Congenital Heart Disease. University Southampton Hospital. Southampton-Oxford ACHD Network, Southampton, UK
- 15/1/2018-20/08/2018: Locum Consultant ACHD. University Southampton Hospital, Southampton, UK
Personal
I enjoy my work and my everyday life. I keep a good balance between work and personal life. I enjoy socialising with friends, cycling, travelling around the world.
Publications
- Contemporary cardiac surgery for adults with congenital heart disease (Heart Journal-August 2017).
- Presentations-Abstracts:
- Women with previous surgery due to congenital heart disease - safety in pregnancy and possibility of giving birth to children with heart disease.
- Re-operation after total correction of tetralogy Fallot - Causes and results.
- The prevalence and clinical significance of mitral valve prolapse in childhood and adolescence - (ESC 2011, Paris)
- European Cardiology Congress oral presentation on: Pre participation cardiovascular screening of 1000 children and Adolescents. The significance of echocardiogram (Abstract session 1922).