Intervention day 4: Acute myocardial infarction and primary angioplasty

Gareth Rosser was appointed as a consultant interventional cardiologist at Hillingdon and Harefield Hospitals in 2017. He contributes to the primary PCI programme at Harefield and performs all forms of PCI including calcium modification techniques – rotablation and lithotripsy, intravascular imaging and CTO dissobliteration. Dr Rosser has an interest in education and trains Imperial College London medical students at both Harefield and Hillingdon Hospitals. He is an honorary senior lecturer at Imperial College London and is accredited through the Royal College of Physicians as a clinical and educational supervisor.

Dr Wilson was appointed as a Consultant Cardiologist at St George's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in 2019. He has a specialist interest in complex and CTO coronary intervention and leads the ACS service at St George’s. Having undertaken a doctorate into novel targets for the prevention of atherothrombosis he continues his research into improving revascularisation outcomes in IHD and cardiogenic shock.

Dr Vasileios Panoulas is a consultant cardiologist at Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Trust and honorary senior clinical lecturer at Imperial College London. He has clinical expertise that encompasses both general and interventional cardiology.  

Dr Panoulas has a special interest in complex coronary angioplasty, transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI), and percutaneous mechanical assist devices for the treatment of acute cardiogenic shock.