Demosthenes G. Katritsis CARDIOLOGIST CLINICAL Director of 3rd Cardiology Department

• 1981 MD University of Athens
• 1991 PhD University of London

• Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP)
• Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology (FESC)
• Fellow of the American College of Cardiology (FACC)

Board Member

• British Cardiac Society
• European Society of Cardiology
• American College of Cardiology

Editorial Boards

• Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology Review (Editor in Chief)
• Europace
• Heart Rhythm
• Hellenic Journal of Cardiology

AD-HOC REVIEWER for peer-reviewed international journals

• Circulation
• Circulation Arrh Electrophysiology
• Circulation Cardiovasc Interventions
• Journal American College of Cardiology
• JACC Clin Electrophysiology
• JACC Cardiovasc Interventions
• European Heart Journal
• Europace
• Heart Rhythm
• Journal of Cardiovasc Electrophysiology
• PACE

• 2016- Hygeia Hospital, Athens, Greece
• 2000-2016 Athens Euroclinic, Athens, Greece
• 1994-1998 Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, Athens, Greece
• 1991-1994 Dept of Cardiological Sciences, St George’s Hospital, London, UK
• 1985-1990 Dept of Cardiology, St Thomas’ Hospital, London, UK
• 1982-1984 Dept of Medicine, St Thomas’ Hospital, London, UK

Clinical Interest:

• Coronary intervention
• Electrophysiology and ablation
• Implantable devices
• Structural interventions (TAVI, Inoue, PFO/ASD closure)
• Renal Denervation
  

Research Interest: 

• Arrhythmias (esp atrioventricular nodal re-entrant tachycardia, ventricular tachycardias, and atrial fibrillation)
• Coronary Circulation (Computational fluid dynamics-CFD)
• Indications of coronary intervention
• Nanotechnology applications

• Doctoral thesis (Athens University Medical School): 1^st prize award for Medical Thesis (1981)
• Katritsis DG, Gersh BJ, Camm AC. Clinical Cardiology. Shortlisted for the Best Medical Textbook by the British Medical Association  (1996, London, UK)
• Academy of Athens Award for excellence in scientific research, 2019

Katritsis DG, Camm AJ, Gersh BJ. Clinical Cardiology: Current Practice Guidelines. Oxford University Press, 2^nd Ed. 2016

Katritsis DG, Morady F. Cardiac Clinical Electrophysiology. Elsevier 2020.

Preparation of 30 chapters for the most prestigious cardiology Textbooks internationally, including the official textbook of the European Society of Cardiology Camm AJ, Luscher T, Serruys P: European Society of Cardiology Textbook. Oxford University Press. 3^nd Edition 2017, and the textbook by Zipes, Jalife, Stevenson: Cardiac Electrophysiology.Elsevier. 7^th Edition 2017

More than 350 publications in peer-reviewed international journals. Indicative examples:

Katritsis DG, Ioannidis JP. PCI for stable coronary disease. N Engl J Med. 2007 26;357:414-5.

Katritsis DG, Siontis GC, Kastrati A, Van’t Hof AW, Neumann FJ, Siontis KC, Ioannidis JP. Optimal timing of coronary angiography and potential intervention in non-ST-elevation acute coronary syndromes. Eur Heart J. 2011;32:32-40

Katritsis DG, Theodorakakos A, Pantos I, Gavaises M, Karcanias N, Efstathopoulos EP. Flow Patterns at Stented Coronary Bifurcations: Computational  Fluid Dynamics Analysis. Circulation Cardiovasc Interv. 2012;5:530-9.

Katritsis DG, Zareba W, Camm AJ. Nonsustained Ventricular Tachycardia. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2012;60:1993-2004

Katritsis DG, Pokushalov E, Romanov A, Giazitzoglou E, Siontis GC, Po SS, Camm AJ, Ioannidis JP. Autonomic Denervation Added to Pulmonary Vein Isolation for Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation: A Randomized Clinical Trial. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2013; 62:2318-25

Katritsis DG, Marine JE, Contreras FM, Fujii A, Latchamsetty R, Siontis KC, Katritsis GD, Zografos TA, John RM, Epstein LM, Michaud GF, Anter E, Sepahpour A, Rowland E, Buxton AE, Calkins H, Morady F, Stevenson WG, Josephson ME. Catheter Ablation of Atypical Atrioventricular Nodal Reentrant Tachycardia. Circulation. 2016; 134:1655-1663.

Katritsis DG, Marine JE, Latchamsetty R, Zografos T, Tanawuttiwat T, Sheldon SH, Buxton AE, Calkins H, Morady F, Josephson ME. Coexistent Types of Atrioventricular Nodal Reentrant Tachycardia: Implications for the Tachycardia Circuit. Circulation Arrhythm Electrophysiol. 2015 2015;8:1189-93.

Katritsis DG, Mark DB, Gersh BJ. Revascularization in stable coronary disease: evidence and uncertainties. Nature Rev Cardiol. 2018;15:408-419.

Katritsis DG, John RM, Latchamsetty R, Muthalaly RG, Zografos T, Katritsis GD, Stevenson WG, Efimov IR, Morady F. Left Septal Slow Pathway Ablation for Atrioventricular Nodal Reentrant Tachycardia. Circ Arrhythm Electrophysiol. 2018;11(3):e005907.

Katritsis DG, Zografos T, Siontis KC, Giannopoulos G, Muthalaly RG, Liu Q, Latchamsetty R, Varga Z, Deftereos S, Swerdlow C, Callans DJ, Miller JM, Morady F, John RM, Stevenson WG. Endpoints for Successful Slow Pathway Catheter Ablation in Typical and Atypical Atrioventricular Nodal Re-Entrant Tachycardia: A Contemporary, Multicenter Study. JACC Clin Electrophysiol. 2019;5:113-119.