Dr Anna Marciniak

 Professional experience

• More than 20 years of experience
• Consultant Cardiologist, Spire St Anthony's Hospital (present)
• Lead for Echo Imaging, South London Deanery (present)
• Imaging Cardiology Consultant, St. George’s Hospital, London (present)
• Senior Imaging Fellow, St. George’s Hospital, London (October 2015 – April 2016)
• CMR Fellowship, Royal Brompton Hospital  (April 2015 – Oct 2015)
• Imaging Fellow, St. George’s Hospital, London (October 2014 – April 2015)
• Imaging Fellow with involvement in inherited cardiac conditions, Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital, London (October 2013 – October 2014)
• ST5 in Cardiology, St. George’s Hospital, London Dr L. Anderson/Dr N Bunce (October 2012 – October 2013)
• ST4 in Cardiology, Ashford and St. Peter’s Hospitals, Surrey (October 2011 – October 2012)
• ST3 in cardiology, St. George’s Hospital, London (August 2010 – October 2011)
• ST2 in Core Medical Training: cardiology/geriatrics/acute medicine St. George’s Hospital, London May 2009 – Aug 2010
• ST1 in Core Medical Training: Infectious disease/ gastroenterology/ geriatrics, St. George’s Hospital, London (August 2007- June 2008)
• PhD student and research fellow in cardiology, St. George’s Hospital, London (September 2004 – September 2008 )
• Clinical fellow in heart transplant and cardiac ultrasound department, Gasthuisberg University Hospital, Leuven, Belgium (October 2003 – September 2004)
• PRHO General Medicine (October 2002 – September 2003)

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 Sub-specialties

• Dizziness
• Palpitations
• Shortness of breath
• Angina
• Arrhythmia
• Chest pain
• Heart attack
• Stroke
• Cardiac imaging
• Coronary artery disease
• Aortic stenosis
• mitral regurgitation
• Infective endocarditis

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 Education

• FESC Fellow of European Society of Cardiology (2015)          
• MRCP (UK) (2010)                   
• PhD, Valvular Heart Disease Imaging, St George's University of London (2009)
• MSc - Master of Medical Imaging, Gasthuisberg University Hospital, Leuven, Belgium (2003-2004) 
• MBBS University of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Poznań, Poland (1996-2002)

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 Publications and conferences

• Mending the broken valentine heart: a case report. Marwaha, Bhatia R, Papadakis M, Marciniak A. Eur Heart J Case Rep. 2022
• A. Marciniak, K. Glover, R. Sharma. Prevalence of valvular heart disease in community patients with suspected heart failure in UK. BMJ Open. 2017 Jan 27;7(1).
• A. Marciniak, M. Marciniak, A. Chiribiri, S.Claridge, V. Ramos, R. Rajani. Multimodality Imaging of Extensive Caseating Intramyocardial Calcification Secondary to Lymphoma. Circulation CVI, 2015 Apr;8(4).
• A. Marciniak, R. Rajani. Multidetector Computed Tomographic Characterization of a Left Atrial Myxoma. Arq Bras Cardiol. 2015;105:97-8.
• A. Marciniak, M. Gonsalves, M. Gallagher. Superior Vena Cava Syndrome Following Radiofrequency Sinus Node Modification and Treated with Thrombolysis and Stenting. Europace . 2015 Jan;17:37.
•  A. Marciniak, G. Karapanadiotidis, M. Sarsam, R. Sharma. Postpartum Lactobacillus jensenii endocarditis in patient with bicuspid aortic valve. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2014 Nov;148:e219-2.
•  A. Marciniak, J. Webb, R. Rajani. Cardiac Imaging Training in the United Kingdom – Rise of the Machines. International Journal of Cardiology. 2014. 15;173:515-6.
• A. Marciniak, G.R. Sutherland, M. Marciniak, A.Kourliouros, B. Bijnens, M. Jahangiri. Prediction of postoperative left ventricular systolic function in patients with chronic mitral regurgitation undergoing valve surgery - the role of deformation imaging. Eur J of Cardiothorac Surg. 2011. Nov;40:1131-7.
• A. Marciniak, G.R. Sutherland, M. Marciniak, P. Claus, A. Baltabaeva, B. Bijnens, M. Jahangiri Myocardial abnormalities in patients with aortic regurgitation. Strain rate imaging study. Eur J Echocardiogr. 2009 Jan;10:112-9.
•  A. Marciniak, P. Claus, G.R. Sutherland, M. Marciniak, T. Karu, A. Baltabaeva, E. Merli, B. Bijnens, M. Jahangiri. Changes in systolic left ventricular function in isolated mitral regurgitation. Strain rate imaging study. Eur Heart J. 2007; Nov;28:2627-36.

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 Prizes and awards

• Best Moderated Case - Winner of the Award Competition at Euro CMR awarded by European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging, Prague, Czech Republic (2017)
• High Score Abstract: The prevalence of valvular heart disease in community patients with suspected heart failure. Euro Echo Imaging, Istanbul, Turkey (2013)
• Young Investigators Award for the research work: Preoperative systolic strain rate predicts postoperative left ventricular systolic function in patients with chronic aortic regurgitation. European Society of Echocardiography Conference, Lyon, France (2008)
• Young Investigators Award, for the research work: Ultrasonic Strain Rate in Diagnosing Acute Rejection in Patients After Heart Transplantation. European Society of Echocardiography Conference, Athens, Greece (2004)
• 1st prize in International Congress for Students, Poznań, Poland for the study: Diagnostic significance of persistent Q wave after inferior wall myocardial infarction (2002)

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 Professional membership

• European Society of Cardiology
• British Society of Echocardiography (transthoracic accreditation)
• British Society of Echocardiography (transesophageal accreditation)
• European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (Euro CMR Level 3 accreditation)
• CT coronary angiograms – Level 2 accreditation

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