Prof. Dinos Missouris

Constantinos (Dinos) Missouris is a Professor of Clinical Cardiology at the University of Nicosia Medical School. He is also working as a Consultant Physician/Cardiologist at Frimley Health NHS Trust, the Imperial School of Medicine London and the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust London.  Since his appointment at Frimley Health NHS Trust, he was instrumental in developing a state of the art Coronary Care Unit, cardiac catheterisation laboratory, cardiac investigations unit, and increased the profile of cardiology in East Berkshire. Within a short period of time he facilitated the developed coronary angiography, coronary artery angioplasty, pacemaker, ICD and biventricular implantation. He is an expert in cardiac procedures such as cardiac catherisation, pacemaker implantation, and transthoracic and transoesophageal echocardiography.

Professor Missouris has a vast experience in clinical cardiology, including the management of hypertension and other risk factors, coronary artery disease, arrhythmias including atrial fibrillation, congestive heart failure, and structural heart disease. Furthermore, he has gained wide experience in most cardiac modalities including 2-dimensional echocardiography and transoesophageal echocardiography. He was trained by Professor Donald King in 3-dimensional echocardiography at the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Centre, New York and Klinikum Steglitz, Free University of Berlin.

He has performed and published important academic research while working in the following internationally renowned units for research into cardiac and cardiovascular diseases, the Blood Pressure Unit, and the Department of Cardiology St George’s Hospital Medical School, London, and the Imperial School of Medicine, London. During this time, he has explored many methodological approaches to the study of the heart. In addition, he obtained experience in the diagnosis, epidemiology, treatment and prevention of atheromatous vascular disease. He has established collaborative research at a national and international level and published widely in peer review journals (more than 130 publications). His current research interested include cardiovascular pathophysiology and disease processes, hypertension and other risk factor management, heart failure, arrhythmias, new modalities assessment of cardiac structure and function; pathophysiology, assessment, and treatment of COVID-19.

Professor Missouris is an accomplished lecturer, and makes regular contributions to national and international postgraduate and academic meetings to future cardiologists.