Meet our Chair and the members of the Board of Management.
Dr Panayiotis Avraamides
Member of The Board of Management
MBBS Lond, BSc, FRCP Lond, FRCP Edin, FESC, FEACVI, FACC, FAHA, FSCAI, FHRS
Clinical Professor of Cardiology
Dr Panayiotis Avraamides is Clinical Professor of Cardiology at the University of Nicosia Medical School, Consultant Cardiologist at the University of Nicosia Medical Centre and Consultant Interventional Cardiologist and Electrophysiologist at El Greco Medical Centre, Nicosia.
Dr Avraamides trained in medicine and cardiology in the UK. He graduated from University College London with MBBS and BSc(Hons) Physiology.
Dr Avraamides is former Director of the Cardiology Department and former Consultant Interventional Cardiologist and Electrophysiologist at Nicosia General Hospital. He is a highly experienced physician, having performed tens of thousands of cardiac catheterisations, coronary and structural interventions, pacemaker and defibrillator implantations, as well as electrophysiological studies including atrial fibrillation ablation. He has pioneered many such interventions, having been the first to perform them in Cyprus.
Dr Avraamides was, notably, the first cardiologist in Cyprus to introduce and perform the now routine procedure of percutaneous aortic valve replacement TAVI. Years before, with another colleague, he was the first to perform coronary stenting, which is now the default therapy for coronary disease. Amongst more recent firsts, Dr Avraamides was the first cardiologist in Cyprus to perform AF ablation with the latest revolutionary technology of Pulsed Field Ablation. He was also the first to perform the implantation of leadless pacemakers, a new technological revolution in cardiac pacing.
Dr Avraamides is current Secretary and past President of the Cyprus Working Group on Cardiac Arrhythmias, Pacing and Electrophysiology. He is past President of the Cyprus Working Group on Interventional Cardiology and past President of the Cyprus Society of Cardiology.
Dr Avraamides has been honoured by election to the Fellowship of major professional associations including the Royal College of Physicians of London (FRCP Lon), the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (FRCP Edin), the European Society of Cardiology (FESC), the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (FEACVI), the American College of Cardiology (FACC), the American Heart Association (FAHA), the American Society for Cardiac Angiography and Interventions (FSCAI) and the American Heart Rhythm Society (FHRS).
Dr Avraamides’ elder daughter graduated from The English School in 2024 and is currently studying medicine in the UK. His younger daughter started year 1 at The English School in 2024. Dr Avraamides himself went to boarding school in the UK, at The King’s School Canterbury.
