Professor Kostas Dimopoulos, is a consultant cardiologist and Professor of Adult Congenital Heart Disease (ACHD) and Pulmonary Hypertension (PH). He has a PhD in ACHD and an MSc in Modern Epidemiology obtained from Imperial College, London. He has been working at the Royal Brompton Hospital and Imperial College since 2003. He is a busy clinician leading ACHD and PH clinics, and caring for inpatients. He has produced over 320 papers in prestigious peer-reviewed journals, as well as authoring numerous book chapters in ACHD, PH and exercise physiology. He has also edited a book on Pulmonary Hypertension in ACHD and a book on Univentricular Hearts.
He is a reviewer for major cardiovascular journals and regularly lectures at national and international centres. His main areas of interest are exercise physiology, epidemiology and prognostication in ACHD and PH, as well as promoting education and research in areas such as Eisenmenger syndrome. He has been a nucleus member of the ESC working group for Pulmonary Circulation and Right Ventricular Function (2014-18 and 2022-25). He is in the Steering Committee for CHAMPION, a UK-wide initiative promoting research and education in pulmonary hypertension associated with congenital heart disease.
He is a member of the Writing Committee for the AHA/ACC ACHD guidelines and a reviewer for the ESC Guidelines for Pregnancy in patients with Heart Disease.