Dr Luis da Rocha Lopes

Dr Lopes is a Consultant Cardiologist in the Inherited Cardiovascular Diseases Unit at Barts Heart Centre in London and Honorary Associate Professor in University College London.

He obtained his MD from the University of Lisbon in 2001, finished his Cardiology training in 2009, and achieved his PhD in 2015 at the Institute of Cardiovascular Science, University College London (UCL).

Currently a Clinical-Academic Consultant Cardiologist at Barts Heart Centre dedicated to cardiomyopathies, cardiogenetics and cardiac MRI and Honorary Senior Lecturer/Assistant Professor at the Centre for Heart Muscle Disease, Institute of Cardiovascular Science, UCL. He is the Cardiology lead for the North Thames Genomic Laboratory Hub (part of the NHS Genomic Medicine Service).

His main clinical focus are the genetic cardiomyopathies including hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, dilated cardiomyopathy and arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy, metabolic cardiomyopathies including Fabry disease, cardiac involvement in neuromuscular conditions and mitochondrial cardiomyopathy.

Major research interests include the discovery of new genetic causes of cardiomyopathy an the use of advanced imaging in the construction of genotype-phenotype models. His work has been published in several high impact journals.

Diseases, Medical Tests and Treatments

Cardiomyopathy/heart muscle disease, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, dilated cardiomyopathy, arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy, mitochondrial cardiomyopathy, metabolic cardiomyopathies, cardiac involvement in neuromuscular conditions, genetics, cardiogenetics, cardiac magnetic resonance.