Cardiologist
Dr Ilias Koutsogeorgis is a Consultant Cardiologist specialising in Electrophysiology, Heart Failure and Cardiac Devices. He particularly focuses on the management of arrhythmias, heart failure and cardiomyopathies and he is certified by the European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA) for implantation and follow- up of all types of cardiac devices (pacemakers, defibrillators, cardiac resynchronization therapy, subcutaneous ICDs). He is also performing highly complex cases of transvenous lead extraction.
Dr Koutsogeorgis qualified with an MD from the University of Athens in 2005. Following junior medical training in Greece he began specialist cardiology training in Athens in 2009. He was the youngest cardiologist in Greece to get Cardiac Device Certification Level 1, in Nice, France in 2014 and received a scholarship from the Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in Cambridge, as a fellow in cardiac devices. After finishing his training in Cardiology, he was appointed as a Research Fellow in cardiac devices at Barts Heart Centre in London, the largest unit in Europe. In 2018 he was appointed as an Honorary Consultant at Barts Heart Centre in cardiac devices and arrhythmias and in 2019 he was appointed as a Consultant Cardiologist with Special Interest in cardiac devices at Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust. In 2020 he got a Consultant Post in London at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust and Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust.
In Cyprus he is leading the cardiac care at the Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics in patients with rare diseases and performs all type of device implantations (pacemaker, defibrillators (ICDs), Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (CRTs), Subcutaneous defibrillators (ICDs) at the German Oncology Centre in Limassol. He has participated as an investigator in several Multi- Centre Trials in Heart Failure and Cardiac Device therapy (Praetorian, Untouched, Strive-HF, Minerva)
His areas of expertise include implantable loop recorders (ILRs), pacemakers, implantable cardioverter- defibrillators (ICDs), subcutaneous defibrillators (S- ICDs), cardiac resynchronisation therapy (CRTs), syncope, echocardiography, stress test, holter ECG recordings, holter blood pressure recordings, stroke prevention, whereas some of the conditions he commonly treats include arrhythmia, atrial fibrillation, palpitations, loss of consciousness episodes, heart failure, hypertension, coronary artery disease.