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- April 23, 2026
Subspeciality: General Cardiology (chest pain, palpitations, high cholesterol, high blood pressure), Interventional Cardiology, Heart muscle disease (cardiomyopathy), Myocarditis (inflammation of the heart).
Dr Lopes is a Consultant Cardiologist in the Inherited Cardiovascular Diseases Unit at Barts Heart Centre in London and an Honorary Associate Professor at University College London. He obtained his MD from the University of Lisbon in 2001, completed his cardiology training in 2009, and was awarded his PhD in 2015 by the Institute of Cardiovascular Science at UCL. He currently works as a Clinical-Academic Consultant Cardiologist with a dedicated focus on cardiomyopathies, cardiogenetics and cardiac MRI, alongside his academic role at the Centre for Heart Muscle Disease within the Institute of Cardiovascular Science. He also serves as the Cardiology Lead for the North Thames Genomic Laboratory Hub as part of the NHS Genomic Medicine Service.
Dr Lopes’ clinical practice centres on inherited and genetic heart muscle diseases, including hypertrophic, dilated and arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathies, as well as metabolic cardiomyopathies such as Fabry disease. He also has extensive experience in cardiac involvement associated with neuromuscular conditions and mitochondrial cardiomyopathy.
He speaks English, Portuguese, & Spanish, and can provide consultations in these three languages.
Dr Lopes has a clinical interest in cardiomyopathy, heart muscle disease, and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. He currently serves as an associate professor and module leader for Genetics of Cardiovascular and Related Complex Diseases at University College London, Institute of Cardiovascular Science and Faculty of Life Science.
Dr Lopes’s research interests focus on identifying new genetic causes of cardiomyopathy and applying advanced cardiac imaging to develop genotype–phenotype models. He has published widely in high-impact journals, with over 240 publications, over 30,000 reads, and around 7000 citations for his works; he continues to combine clinical care with translational research in inherited cardiovascular disease.
