Dr Andreas Kyriacou
Consultant Cardiologist and Electrophysiologist · Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer, Sheffield University
Practising in Sheffield since 2015.
Dr Kyriacou specialises in the medical treatment and catheter ablation of heart rhythm disorders, including complex arrhythmias such as atrial fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia. He also implants complex cardiac pacemakers and defibrillators. Alongside his clinical work, his research explores how complex cardiac pacing affects heart function and coronary artery physiology, how to get the greatest benefit from pacemakers and cardiac resynchronisation therapy, and new approaches to diagnosing and treating complex arrhythmias.
Career
Dr Kyriacou graduated from the University of Edinburgh with an MBChB in 2001, and worked as a junior doctor in Edinburgh and London. In 2007 he was awarded a Walport Academic Clinical Fellowship in Cardiology by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). He trained in cardiology, and subspecialised in cardiac arrhythmias, at some of London's leading heart centres, including St Mary's and Hammersmith Hospitals (part of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust). His research was funded by a three-year British Heart Foundation clinical research training fellowship at the International Centre for Circulatory Health, where he investigated the physiological effects of complex cardiac pacing on heart function.
His research has been recognised internationally: he won the Young Investigator in Clinical Research award from the European Society of Cardiology Heart Failure Association in 2012, and was runner-up in the British Heart Rhythm Society Young Investigator Competition the same year. He presented his research at the 'SET for Britain' event held by the Parliamentary and Scientific Committee at Westminster in both 2011 and 2012. He completed his specialist training in complex arrhythmia, AF and VT ablation at the Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals, before being appointed Consultant Cardiologist and Electrophysiologist at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in 2015.
Education & training
- 2013
- IBHRE Certified Cardiac Device Specialist (CCDS)
- 2009–2012
- Clinical Research Training Fellowship, British Heart Foundation
- 2008–2011
- PhD, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London
- 2007–2015
- Academic Clinical National Training Number in Cardiology (Walport NIHR Fellowship), NW Thames, London
- 2004
- MRCP, Royal College of Physicians, London
- 1996–2001
- MBChB, University of Edinburgh
Memberships
- Honorary Senior Lectureship
- Sheffield University
- Member
- Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
- Member
- British Heart Rhythm Society
- Member
- Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association
Publications
Dr Kyriacou has 19 peer-reviewed publications (1998–2018) in journals including Circulation, Europace, Heart Rhythm, JACC Cardiovascular Imaging, International Journal of Cardiology and Heart Failure Reviews, principally on the optimisation of cardiac resynchronisation therapy, AV/VV delay, and the physiology of cardiac pacing.
