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Fee assured
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Verified account
- Open Referral network
Specialises in
- Interventional cardiology
Offers
- Video and telephone consultations
About me
Dr Zoë Astroulakis has been a full time Consultant Interventional Cardiologist at St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Honorary Senior Lecturer at St George's University of London Medical School since September 2012. However, she recently accepted exciting new opportunities to work abroad, and now regularly travels to and from Athens, while maintaining a working relationship with St George's, continuing her established private practice, and directing medical education/ simulation training courses.
She was born and brought up in central London, and was educated at the Grey Coat Hospital Girls' School, Westminster where she was Head Girl, and graduated from University College London Medical School with MBBS in addition to a First Class Honours BSc in Cell Pathology.
She undertook her cardiology speciality training at high profile London teaching hospitals including King's College hospital, the Royal Free, the Heart and the London Chest hospital where she completed sub-speciality training in interventional cardiology.
Her research into the effects of stem cells in ischaemic heart disease post myocardial injury has been presented at the American Heart Association. She was shortlisted for the British Cardiovascular Intervention Society “Investigator of the Year” award. She has published in high impact clinical journals for which she has also acted as a peer reviewer. She holds a PhD awarded by King's College London in 2011.
As well as being a highly regarded general cardiologist, assessing, treating and advising on a plethora of conditions, she undertakes coronary angiography and angioplasty (PCI) procedures via the radial (wrist) artery, proven to be much safer than the conventional femoral (groin) approach, as well as allowing patients to mobilise immediately afterwards. She is a highly skilled operator using the latest technologies to assess and treat coronary arteries (optical coherence tomography, pressure wire studies, drug coated balloons and bio-resorbable scaffolds) ensuring that her patients are offered the very latest evidence-based therapies.
She is the founding Director of the Regional Cardiac Simulation Training programme in SW London, working in collaboration with the British Cardiovascular Society, as well having served as the Cardiology Lead for the Acute Coronary Syndromes (“Heart attack” care). She holds multiple awards for “Excellence in Teaching” of postgraduates and undergraduates, and “Excellence in Clinical Leadership”, and holds the 2016 “Excellence in Teaching” award for her contribution to the division of Medicine at St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
She has led the London Ambulance Service's Advanced Paramedic Practitioners degree course in the management of emergency heart attack patients in the hospital setting.
Dr Zoe Astroulakis' has received outstanding patient reviews/ ratings which can be viewed at: www.Iwantgreatcare.org/doctors/dr-zoe-astroulakis
NHS Hospitals:
St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Private Hospitals:
The New Victoria Hospital, Kingston Upon Thames
Spire St Anthony's, Cheam
Areas of interest
Assessment and investigation of chest pain; Heart disease and risk factor assessment; Hypertension (High Blood Pressure); Palpitations; Shortness of breath; Heart Failure; Coronary artery disease and Angina; Coronary angiography; Coronary Angioplasty; Post heart attack care and rehabilitation.
Medical secretaries
- Deborah Squire
- St George's Hospital Blackshaw Road LONDON SW17 0QT
- 07595 727104
- debsquire247@aol.com
Information for healthcare professionals (Bupa patients only, last 12 months)
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X3510
IV sedation administered by operator - (1-5)
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AA963
Coronary angioplasty following angiography with fractional flow study on the same day, +/- insertion of stent - radial access - (1-5)
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K6582
Adult cardiac catheterisation - radial access (including coronary arteriography/catheterisation of right/left side of heart/ contrast radiology) - with pressure wire (including fractional flow reserve measurement) - (1-5)