About me
Dr Stephen Peters is a Consultant Cardiologist at Harlington University Hospital. He is the Director of Clinical Studies for Imperial College Medical Students attending this hospital.
He qualified in 1994 from the University of Queensland, Australia. He gained a wide experience in general medicine as a hospital intern in Brisbane, Australia, as a doctor in the Greek Armed Forces and as part of an acute emergency air retrieval service in the Greek islands.
He specialised in Cardiology at Athens University and pursued subspecialist training in stress echocardiography and cardiac catheterisation at St George Hospital, Sydney, Australia. He trained in Cardiac CT at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA.
His published work focuses on echocardiographic indices of valve disease and myocardial function
External resources
West Middlesex Hospital NHS Trust
Current NHS consultant posts held
West Middlesex
Research interests
Heart failure, echocardiography
Personal interests
Arthouse cinema, astronomy, golf, vintage cars
Awards received
Clinical Excellence Awards Level 3
Languages spoken
English, Greek
Publications
Vasilakou M, Votteas V, Kasparian C, Pantazopoulos N, Dedoussis G, Deltas C, Nastos P, Nikolakis D, Lamnissou K. Lack of association between endothelial nitric oxide synthase gene polymorphisms and risk of premature coronary artery disease in the Greek population. Acta Cardiol 2008 Oct 63(5):609-14.
Pantazopoulos NJ, Henein MY. The PARC-AALA trial: carotid artery intima media thickness revisited. Int J Cardiovasc Imaging 2008 Jan 24(1): 53-54. Epub 12 April, 2007
Moyssakis I, Moschos N, Triposkiadis F, Hallaq Y, Pantazopoulos NJ, Kolettis M. Left Ventricular end-systolic stress/diameter relation as contractility index and as a predictor of survival. Independence of preload after normalization for end-diastolic diameter. Heart Vessels, 2005 Sep 20(5): 191-198
Pantazopoulos NJ, I. Moyssakis, A. Perakis et al. Severe aortic regurgitation in Von Recklinghausen's disease : A case report. Angiology, 2005 Mar Apr; 56 (2): 225-227
Moyssakis I, Triposkiadis F, Pantazopoulos NJ, Kyriakidis M, Nihoyannopoulos P. Left atrial systolic function in primary and familial amyloidosis: assessment from left atrial volume change. Clin Cardiol, 2004 Sep 27(9): 528-532
Courses offered to GPs
Over the past 7 years I have given multiple educational talks to GPs. For these I have been offered honoraria by the pharmaceutical industry.