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Dr Thanos Athanasiou

Clinical Reader in Surgery
Division of Surgery, Oncology, Reproductive Biology and Anaesthetics

Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Wing (QEQM)
St Mary's Campus

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Mr Thanos Athanasiou MD PhD FETCS

Reader in Cardiac Surgery and Consultant Cardiac Surgeon

Mr. Thanos Athanasiou is a Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon at Hammersmith and St Mary's Hospitals and a Reader in Cardiac Surgery in the Division of Surgery and Cancer at Imperial College London.

He specializes in Complex Aortic Surgery, Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG), Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery and Robotic Assisted Cardiothoracic Surgery. His institutional responsibility is to lead academic cardiac surgery. He is currently supervising eight MD/ PhD students and has published more than 220 peer reviewed research journal articles. He is a senior author of a textbook in surgical research and methodology, titled 'Key Topics in Surgical Research and Methodology'. He has given several invited lectures in national and international forums in the field of technology in cardiac surgery, healthcare delivery and quality of care. His specialty research interest includes bio-inspired robotic systems and their application in cardiothoracic surgery, outcomes research in cardiac surgery, surgical education and regenerative cardiovascular strategies.

His general research interests include: quality metrics in healthcare and evidence synthesis including meta-analysis, decision and economic analysis. His statistical interests include longitudinal outcomes from cardiac surgical interventions. He has recently developed and published a novel methodology for analysing longitudinal and psychometric data.

Link to the personal web page: http://www.thanosathanasiou.co.uk