Dr Anna Marciniak

• 21 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)

• PhD Research, St George’s University of London

  • Focus: Valvular heart disease imaging

• Publications:

  • Marciniak A, Glover K, Sharma R. Prevalence of valvular heart disease in community patients with suspected heart failure in UK. BMJ Open. 2017 Jan 27;7(1).

  • Marciniak A, Marciniak M, Chiribiri A, et al. Multimodality Imaging of Extensive Caseating Intramyocardial Calcification Secondary to Lymphoma. Circulation CVI. 2015 Apr;8(4).

  • Marciniak A, Rajani R. Multidetector Computed Tomographic Characterization of a Left Atrial Myxoma. Arq Bras Cardiol. 2015;105:97-8.

  • Marciniak A, Gonsalves M, Gallagher M. Superior Vena Cava Syndrome Following Radiofrequency Sinus Node Modification and Treated with Thrombolysis and Stenting. Europace. 2015 Jan;17:37.

  • Marciniak A, Karapanadiotidis G, Sarsam S, Sharma R. Postpartum Lactobacillus jensenii endocarditis in patient with bicuspid aortic valve. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2014 Nov;148:e219-2.

  • Marciniak A, Webb J, Rajani R. Cardiac Imaging Training in the United Kingdom – Rise of the Machines. Int J Cardiol. 2014;173:515-6.

• 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)

Dr Anna Marciniak is a highly reputable and experienced consultant cardiologist who specialises in echocardiogram, valvular heart disease, heart valve surgery, hypertension, palpitations, heart failure, coronary heart disease, cardiac MRI, and coronary CTscanning. She currently practises at Spire St Anthony's Hospital. 

Dr Marciniak successfully completed a master's degree in cardiac imaging at the Catholic research university in the Belgian city of Leuven, KU Leuven, in 2004, before going on to impressively obtain a PhD four years later in valvular heart disease imaging from St George's University of London.

Dr Marciniak also possesses quite the substantial amount of expertise in cardiac imaging techniques, chest pain, angina, stroke, heart attack, low blood pressure, palpitations, shortness of breath, dizziness, and arrhythmia.