Dr Constantinos Anagnostopoulos is a Consultant in Nuclear Medicine both at the Royal Brompton and the Chelsea & Westminster hospital in London.

He is deputy clinical director in the former and head of service in the latter and in addition, he is an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the National Heart and Lung Institute and the University College, London.

Dinos (as he is known to his friends and colleagues) was born in Thessaloniki and went to school in Trikala. When he was eighteen years old he moved to Thessaloniki where he studied Medicine and acquired his Medical Degree from the Medical School of the Aristotelian University. He did his post graduate training in Nuclear Medicine both in Greece and UK (London) where he lives since 1991.

His research activities are in the field of nuclear cardiology and Positron Emission Tomography and most of his work is concentrated in development, validation and application of techniques assessing myocardial perfusion and ventricular function and their alterations by medical intervention or revascularization.

He has a significant number of publications and he was awarded his PhD with distinction in 1996. In addition to his research activities, Dinos has an extensive contribution to education; he is the principal editor of the international multi-authored book “non invasive imaging of myocardial ischemia”, author of many book chapters, guest editor of the “HEART” and author of various European and UK guidelines.

Dinos Anagnostopoulos is a nucleus member of the working group in Nuclear Cardiology of the European Society of Cardiology, past chairman of the British Nuclear Cardiology Society, ex-councilor of the British Nuclear Medicine Society and the British Cardiac Society and member of many professional societies.