Constantinos Anagnostopoulos

Biography

Constantinos Anagnostopoulos M.D, Ph.D, FRCP, FRCR, FESC is a Nuclear Medicine Physician, Faculty member of BRFAA and Research Director at the Center for Clinical Research, Experimental Surgery, and Translational Research. Dr Anagnostopoulos received his Medical Degree (M.D) from the University of Thessaloniki in 1985. He trained in Nuclear Medicine at the Theagenio Hospital of Thessaloniki and completed his post-graduate training at the Royal Marsden and Royal Brompton Hospitals in England and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, US. During his post-graduate training he acquired expertise in Nuclear Cardiology and hybrid imaging (PET/CT and SPECT/CT). Dr Anagnostopoulos has served as President of the British Nuclear Cardiology Society of and Council member both of the British Cardiovascular Society and the British Nuclear Medicine Society (2002 and 2003) and also of the European Society of Cardiology working group in Nuclear Cardiology and Cardiac CT (2002-2010). He has been advisor to the Department of Health, UK, through the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) on scoping the document; “Appraisal of Myocardial Perfusion Imaging” and external expert of the appraisal committee. He is member of the editorial board of leading specialty journals and he has also served as Guest Editor of HEART.

Research Interest

His research interests focus mainly on the field of cardiovascular imaging and pursues these, through collaboration with a number of National and European centres. His pioneering work on comparative assessment of left ventricular function by novel radionuclide techniques and Cardiac Magnetic Resonance (CMR), heart failure imaging, and more recently, on absolute perfusion quantification using PET has been cited extensively in the literature.