General day 9: Pulmonary hypertension: what trainees should know

Dr John Cannon is a Respiratory Physician and Director of the Pulmonary Vascular Diseases Unit at Royal Papworth Hospital. This is a designated pulmonary hypertension specialist centre and the only nationally designated centre for pulmonary endarterectomy surgery and balloon pulmonary angioplasty. His respiratory medicine training was in Cambridge and during this he undertook research leading to his PhD. He has published a number of articles, both scientific and clinical, in the area of pulmonary hypertension.

Dr J Gerry Coghlan is the lead for the pulmonary hypertension service at Royal Free Hospital. His specialist interest is in connective tissue disease-associated pulmonary hypertension and chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension.

Professor Kostas Dimopoulos, is a consultant cardiologist specialising in Adult Congenital Heart Disease (ACHD) and Pulmonary Hypertension (PH). He has a PhD in ACHD and an MSc in modern epidemiology obtained from Imperial College, London. He has been working at the Royal Brompton Hospital and Imperial College since 2003. He is a busy clinician leading ACHD and PH clinics and caring for inpatients.

He has produced over 290 papers in prestigious peer-reviewed journals, as well as authoring numerous book chapters in ACHD, PH and exercise physiology. He has also edited a book on pulmonary hypertension in ACHD. Kostas is a reviewer and associate editor for major cardiovascular journals and regularly lectures at national and international centres. His main areas of interest are exercise physiology, epidemiology, and prognostication in ACHD and PH, as well as promoting education and research in areas such as Eisenmenger syndrome.

He has been a nucleus member of the ESC working group for Pulmonary Circulation and Right Ventricular Function (2014-18). He is a member of the steering committee for the CHAMPION group, an initiative promoting education and research in PH associated with ACHD.