Organiser:
Michael Gatzoulis
Royal Brompton & Imperial College, London, UK
Faculty
Ian Abbs
Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospital, London, UKIan became the Chief Executive Officer of Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust in July 2019. Prior to this, READ MORE
Teiji Akagi
Okayama University Hospital, JapanPresident, Japanese Society for Adult Congenital Heart Disease
Margarita Brida
Zagreb University Hospital, CroatiaMargarita Brida, Assistant Professor, MD PhD FESC completed her specialization in Internal Medicine and Cardiology and her doctoral postgraduate study at University Hospital Centre Zagreb. href="https://achd.co.uk/margarita-brida">READ MORE
Natali Chung
Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospital, London, UKDr Chung is an ACHD consultant at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and Clinical Lead for the ACHD service at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals. href="https://achd.co.uk/natali-chung">READ MORE
Andrew Constantine
Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UKDr Andrew Constantine is an ACHD Fellow in the London Deanery with broad research interests within ACHD and pulmonary hypertension. He recently completed a PhD in pulmonary arterial hypertension related to congenital heart disease at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London.
Gerhard Diller
Hospital Münster, GermanyConsultant Cardiologist Division of Adult Congenital and Valvular Heart Disease, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, University Hospital Muenster, Muenster, Germany and the Royal Brompton Hospital, London. Visiting Professor at King's College London. READ MORE
Neill Duncan
Imperial College, London, UKDr Duncan qualified from St Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical College, University of London 1995 with distinctions in Pharmacology and Therapeutics and Merit in Medicine and Pathology. READ MORE
Sabine Ernst
Royal Brompton & Imperial College, London, UKProf. Ernst is a cardiac electrophysiologist with a special expertise in complex arrhythmias such as atrial fibrillation and ventricular arrhythmia both in paediatric and adult patients. She is one of the pioneers of remote magnetic navigation and has established this technique from its’ initiation to clinical routine using state of the art equipment including advanced 3D mapping techniques. Image integration from 3D acquisitions from magnetic resonance imaging or computed tomography assist her in performing her interventions. Especially patients with congenital heart disease, complex anatomy and drug-refractory arrhythmias are benefitting from these. She is also a strong advocate for radiation protection measures which does not only benefit her patients but also the cath lab staff. She performs all of her procedures with low or ZERO fluoroscopy and collaborates with a number of companies to facilitate these interventions.
Alain Fraisse
Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UKAlain Fraisse, MD, PhD. Director/Consultant Paediatric Cardiology, Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals Trust, Visiting Professor at Imperial College, London UK. Formerly Head of Paediatric and Adult Congenital Cardiology, la Timone Hospital, Marseille, France. Professor in Cardiology (2005), France; Former President of the French Society of Paediatric Cardiology (2009-13). PhD in Respiratory Physiology. Clinical Fellow in Boston Children’s Hospital in 1996 and 1999, Boston, USA. Junior Staff in Necker Children’s Hospital (1999-2000), Paris (France). Expertise area: Interventional Catheterization in Congenital and Structural Heart Disease. Over 190 published research papers (Pubmed).
Katie Francis
Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UKDr Francis studied at Cambridge and Oxford Universities, gaining several academic and clinical awards. She completed her general medical and cardiology training in London, and having been hooked on ACHD after a stint at Royal Brompton Hospital, she worked at Great Ormond Street Hospital, Bart’s Hospital and Royal Brompton Hospital, where she currently works as Senior ACHD Echo Fellow. She completed a PhD on the genetics and genomics of aortic traits at Imperial College London thanks to a BHF Clinical Research Fellowship. She has continued her research interests in harnessing the power of population genomic data to study rare disease and holds an honorary Clinical Lectureship at Imperial College. She leads the ClinGen expert panel on aortopathy gene:disease curation. She is a proud mother of 2 children and a proud owner of 11 chickens!
Michael Gatzoulis
Royal Brompton & Imperial College, London, UKProfessor Gatzoulis is the academic head of the Adult Congenital Heart Centre and the Centre for Pulmonary Hypertension at Royal Brompton Hospital and a professor of cardiology, congenital heart disease at the National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College, London.READ MORE
Sarah Ghonim
Royal Brompton And Harefield NHS TrustACHD trainee at the Royal Brompton Hospital and Harefield NHS Trust.
George Giannakoulas
AHEPA University General Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GreeceGeorge Giannakoulas, MD, PhD runs the Adult Congenital Heart Disease and Pulmonary Hypertension Clinics at the AHEPA University Hospital in Thessaloniki, Greece. READ MORE
Massimo Griselli
Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UKLocum Consultant Congenital Cardiothoracic Surgeon at the Royal Brompton Hospital.
Hajar Habibi
Royal Brompton & Harefield Trust, London, UKHonorary Lecturer at Imperial College London Lead ACHD CNS for the Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospital Honorary Lecturer at Imperial College London
Tessa Homfray
Royal Brompton & Harefield Trust, London, UKDr Homfray is a consultant in medical genetics and works at both Royal Brompton and Harefield hospitals.
Aleksander Kempny
Royal Brompton & Imperial College, London, UKDr Kempny is the lead consultant for percutaneous interventions at the centre for Adult Congenital Heart Disease at the Royal Brompton Hospital and senior honorary lecturer at Imperial College London. Dr Kempny has co-authored more than 100 publications in leading journals, including Circulation, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, European Heart Journal, Heart, International Journal of Cardiology and the New England Journal of Medicine, with a Hirsch Index of 34 (03/2022, Google Scholar).
Wei Li
Royal Brompton & Imperial College, London, UKDr Wei Li is a consultant in adult congenital heart disease echocardiography based at Royal Brompton Hospital. Dr Wei Li studied at Peking Union Medical College, where she received her MD and a PhD at Imperial College, where she was awarded the Fielding Medical Scholarship.Since then, Dr Li has acquired over 20 years’ experience in congenital heart disease and echocardiography. She is the clinical lead for echocardiography in adult congenital heart disease and for pulmonary hypertension at Royal Brompton Hospital. For me, the patient is of paramount importance. Non-invasive echocardiography offers unique insights that help patients in their successful long-term care.
Thomas Luscher
Royal Brompton & Harefield Trust, Imperial College, London, UKProfessor Lüscher studied medicine at the University of Zurich and obtained board certification in internal medicine and cardiology in Switzerland. READ MORE
Colm McCabe
Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UKDr Colm McCabe is a consultant respiratory physician at Royal Brompton Hospital in specialising in pulmonary hypertension and high dependency care. During training, he completed an MD research degree in pulmonary vascular disease at Royal Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, in 2013 followed by a Fellowship in exercise physiology at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, USA. Within the Royal Brompton, He is engaged in early translation research and physiological studies of right ventricular function related to pulmonary vascular disease.
Claudia Montanaro
Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UKConsultant Cardiologist in Adult Congenital Heart Disease at Royal Brompton & Harefield Hospitals
Philip Moons
University Hospitals Leuven, BelgiumDr. Philip Moons is Professor of Healthcare and Nursing Science at the Department of Public Health and Primary Care at the KU Leuven - University of Leuven, Belgium; READ MORE
Fernando Riesgo-Gil
Royal Brompton & Harefield Trust, London, UKDr Fernando Riesgo Gil is a consultant cardiologist in heart failure, transplantation and mechanical circulatory support at Harefield Hospital. READ MORE
Jolien Roos-Hesselink
Erasmus University Medical Center, NetherlandsDirector of Adult Congenital Heart Disease program ErasmusMC, Rotterdam, Netherlands, Past-president ESC WG ACHD
Darryl Shore
Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UKMr Darryl Shore is consultant cardiac surgeon at the Trust. He is recognised internationally as an expert in the surgical management of adults with congenital heart disease. READ MORE
Rob Smith
Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UKDr Rob Smith is a consultant internventional cardiologist at the royal brompton hospital.
Jane Somerville
Royal Brompton & Imperial College, London, UKDr. Somerville was educated at Queen’s College and Guy’s Hospital Medical School in London. She was a consultant physician and pediatric cardiologist at the Royal Brompton and National Heart Hospital in London until her retirement. For many years she worked closely with Mr Donald Ross. She was instrumental in developing the field of adult congenital cardiac care or as she preferred to call it “GUCH” or “grown-up congenital heart care”. She was also the founder of the World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology which subsequently became the World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery.
Lars Søndergaard
Rigshospitalet, CopenhagenProfessor of Cardiology at University of Copenhagen since 2015. His thesis ‘Quantitative assessment of aortic regurgitation and stenosis using magnetic resonance velocity mapping: Technical aspects and clinical evaluation’ was awarded with a DMSc degree from University of Copenhagen. Published 410 peer reviewed articles, and 16 text book chapters. READ MORE
Tom Wong
Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UKDr Tom Wong is consultant cardiologist and electrophysiologist at Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust. He is also honorary senior lecturer at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, and chair of the Trust's arrhythmia care group.href="https://achd.co.uk/tom-wong">READ MORE
John Wort
Royal Brompton & Imperial College, London, UKDr John Wort is a consultant in pulmonary hypertension and intensive care medicine at Royal Brompton Hospital. Dr John Wort studied chemistry at St Anne's College, Oxford before studying medicine at University College London. He qualified in 1993, and carried on with specialist training. He finished training in 2005 with a CCST in respiratory, intensive care and general medicine. He completed his PhD at Imperial College London in 2003. He studied the pathological mechanisms of pulmonary hypertension.