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DIMITRIOS GERONTITIS
DIMITRIOS GERONTITIS

CARDIOLOGIST -  ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIST

CONSULTANT, HEART RHYTHM CENTER
CONSULTANT, 3RD CARDIOLOGY CLINIC
  1. General
  • Education & Academic Titles
    • September 2002 – July 2008: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Medical School
    • December 2009 – August 2010: Foundation Programme Doctor (FY1/FY2) - United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust & Warrington and Halton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
    • August 2011 – August 2013: Core Medical Training - East of England Deanery, EOE958 (King’s Lynn NHS Foundation Trust & Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust)
    • February 2014 – December 2021: Specialty Training in Cardiology (CCT) with sub-specialty in Cardiac Electrophysiology & Devices with National Training Number (NTN): WES734 in Wessex Deanery (Clinical rotation in Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust – University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust – Portsmouth University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust – University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust)
    • December 2021 – July 2023: Post-CCT Fellowship in Electrophysiology & Devices – University Hospitals Bristol & Weston NHS Foundation Trust (Bristol Heart Institute)
    • June 2012: Diploma of Royal College of Physicians (London), MRCP(Lon) after successfully passing 3 stage exam
    • March 2021: Certification in Transthoracic Echocardiography (British Society of Echocardiography – BSE) – EACVI equivalent
    • September 2021: European Heart Rhythm Association Certification in Invasive Electrophysiology (EHRA Certified Electrophysiology Specialist, Level 2)
    • June 2023: European Heart Rhythm Association in Cardiac Pacing and ICDs (EHRA Certified Cardiac Device Specialist, Level 2)

       

  • Professional Experience
    • September 2023 – present: Consultant Cardiologist & Electrophysiologist, Heart Rhythm Centre, IASO General Clinic
    • December 2021 – July 2023: Post – CCT Electrophysiology & Devices Fellow, Bristol Heart Institute, United Kingdom
    • August 2015 – December 2021: Specialist Cardiology Registrar – subspecialty: Electrophysiology & Devices – Wessex Deanery – National Training Number: WES734 – Clinical rotation in: Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust – University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust – Portsmouth University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust – University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust
    • October 2014 – August 2015: Senior Clinical Fellow in Cardiology – Royal Free Hospital NHS foundation Trust
    • February 2014 – September 2014: Senior Clinical Fellow in Cardiology – University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
    • August 2011 – August 2013: Core Medical Trainee – NTN: EOE958 – East of England Deanery - King’s Lynn NHS Foundation Trust & Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
    • August 2010 – August 2011: Foundation Year 2 Doctor – Mersey Deanery – Warrington and Halton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
    • November 2009 – August 2010: Foundation Year 1 Doctor – East Midlands Deanery – United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
  • Clinical Interest
    • Dr Dimitrios Gerontitis is a Cardiologist who specialises in the diagnosis and invasive management of all types of cardiac arrhythmias with catheter ablation. He specialises in the treatment of complex atrial arrhythmias (atrial fibrillation/flutter) and ventricular arrhythmias, including epicardial ablation.
    • He also specialises in implantation and follow-up of cardiac devices (brady-pacemakers, biventricular pacemakers/defibrillators and sub-cutaneous defibrillators). In addition, he is fully trained in cardiac device extraction.
    • He is certified Specialist by the European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA) in Invasive Cardiac Electrophysiology (ECES) and Cardiac Devices (ECDS).

       

  • Recent Publications
    • High-density electroanatomic activation mapping to guide slow pathway modification in patients with persistent left superior vena cava.
      Gerontitis D, Pope MTB, Elmowafy M, Sadagopan S, Yue AM. Gerontitis D, et al. Heart Rhythm. 2023 Jul;20(7):1018-1025. doi: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2023.03.1537. Epub 2023 Apr 3. Heart Rhythm. 2023.PMID: 37019166
    • Systematic coronary physiology improves level of agreement in diagnostic coronary angiography.
      Bashar HAB, Saunders A, Alaour B, Gerontitis D, Hinton J, Karamanou D, Kechagioglou G, Olsen S, Onwordi E, Pope M, Zingale A, Nicholas Z, Golledge P, Escaned J, Ali Z, Curzen N. Bashar HAB, et al. Open Heart. 2023 May;10(1):e002258. doi: 10.1136/openhrt-2023-002258. Open Heart. 2023. PMID: 37130658
    • Bashar H, Saunders A, Hinton J, Gerontitis D et al.  Availability of Coronary Physiology Improves Level of Agreement in Management of Patients Undergoing Invasive Coronary Angiography Among Senior Trainees in Interventional Cardiology, Non-interventional Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery: The RIPCORD3 Study. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2022 Sep, 80 (12_Supplement) B124.
      https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2022.08.362
    • UK multicenter retrospective comparison of novel active versus conventional passive fixation coronary sinus leads.
      Gerontitis D, Diab I, Chow AWC, Hunter RJ, Leyva F, Turley AJ, Williams I, Ullah W; other members of the Attain Stability Study Group/Consortium. Gerontitis D, et al. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol. 2020 Nov;31(11):2948-2953. doi: 10.1111/jce.14694. Epub 2020 Aug 5. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol. 2020. PMID: 32716096
  • Membership in Societies and Editorial Boards
    • European Society of Cardiology
    • European Heart Rhythm Association
    • British Cardiovascular Society
    • British Heart Rhythm Society
    • British Society of Echocardiography
    • Royal College of Physicians – London
  • Research
    • Principal Investigator in retrospective multi-centre study of comparison of electromechanical stability of active fixation coronary sinus lead (Attain Stability) vs passive fixation coronary sinus leads
    • Sub-investigator in multicentre clinical study MINERVA (Multicentre Investigation of Novel Electrocardiogram Risk markers in Ventricular Arrhythmia prediction) ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT03022487
    • High density, high resolution mapping in the treatment of typical atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia
    • Methods for identification of arrhythmogenic isthmuses in myocardial scar in patients with ischaemic and non-ischaemic dilated cardiomyopathy