Dr Stephen J D Brecker

Dr Stephen J D Brecker MD, FRCP, FESC, FACC Consultant Cardiologist & Honorary Senior Lecturer Director, Cardiac Catheterisation Laboratories Department of Cardiological Sciences St George’s Hospital Medical School Cranmer Terrace London SW17 0RE Telephone: +44 (0)20 8725 1390 Fax: +44 (0)20 8725 0211 Email: sbrecker@sghms.ac.uk

Research Areas

• Interventional cardiology

• Coronary angioplasty & stenting

• Echocardiography

• Pacing in cardiomyopathy

• Coronary disease in renal failure

Biography

Dr Brecker graduated in Medicine at St. Thomas’s Hospital Medical School, University of London in 1984. Subsequently he completed Senior House Officer posts in London, at the Hammersmith Hospital, St. Thomas’s Hospital, the Brompton Hospital and the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases, Queen Square. He completed Registrar training in cardiology at St. Thomas’s Hospital and the London Chest Hospital before taking up a British Heart Foundation Junior Research Fellowship at the Royal Brompton Hospital. He spent time as a Visiting Fellow at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore and having undertaken Senior Registrar appointments at the Royal Brompton Hospital and the London Chest Hospital, he was appointed as Consultant Cardiologist, St George’s Hospital and Honorary Senior Lecturer at St. George’s Hospital Medical School in 1996.

He is now Director of the Cardiac Catheterisation Laboratories. His major interests currently are in the field of interventional cardiology, coronary angioplasty and stenting. With Dr. David Ward and Dr. Neil Wilson he has established St. George’s as a referral centre for the percutaneous closure of defects of the interatrial septum. Dr Brecker is the author of over 65 peer-reviewed articles and invited contributions.

He is also involved in teaching medical students and postgraduate teaching. Dr Brecker is a frequent speaker at national and international meetings. Since 1995, Dr. Brecker has organized an annual course on transoesophageal echocardiography, which for the last eight years has been held at St. George’s Hospital. This course regularly attracts national and international delegates and faculty numbering over 100, and has become established as the definitive European course on this technique. Dr. Brecker’s research interests have been in the use of echocardiography to assess ventricular function, and he was involved in the original assessment of the potential role of pacing in cardiomyopathy. He has continued interest in this area.

He has participated in a large number of multicentre interventional trials and most recently in collaboration with Dr. Paul Collinson has coordinated a project assessing the significance of dobutamine stress echocardiography and cardiac biomarkers in renal failure.

Research Interests

1. Interventional cardiology

2. Coronary angioplasty & stenting

3. Echocardiography

4. Pacing in cardiomyopathy

5. Coronary disease in renal failure