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Doctor Alexander Lyon

Royal Brompton Hospital, London (United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland)

Member of:

European Society of Cardiology
Heart Failure Association of the ESC

Dr. Alexander Lyon is a Consultant Cardiologist at the Royal Brompton Hospital. Alex studied medicine at Oxford University where he gained a first class degree, and studied for his PhD thesis in myocardial gene therapy at Imperial College London. His clinical interests are in the field of heart failure, cardio-oncology and the cardiovascular complications of modern cancer therapies, Takotsubo syndrome, and the development of novel therapeutics including gene therapy for chronic heart failure. Alex was co-chair of the ESC 2022 guideline on cardio-oncology. Alex is chair of the ESC Cardio-Oncology Council (2022-2024) and past-president of the British Cardio-Oncology Society. Alex is a deputy editor of the European Heart Journal (Cardio-Oncology team). Alex was previously a board member of the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology from 2016-2020, where he was chair of the HFA study groups for Cardio-Oncology and Takotsubo Syndrome.

Virtual guidelines task force

Event: ESC Cardio-Oncology 2025

Topic: Cardiovascular Toxicity Monitoring

Session type: Special Session

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Closing Session

Event: ESC Cardio-Oncology 2025

Topic: Cardiovascular Disease in Special Populations

Session type: Special Event

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Opening session: past, present, and future of cardio-oncology

Event: ESC Cardio-Oncology 2025

Topic: Organisation of a Cardio-Oncology Service

Session type: Special Event

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Where cardiologists and hematologists meet

Event: ESC Cardio-Oncology 2025

Topic: Pharmacology of Cancer Drugs

Session type: Symposium

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AI to optimize multimodality cardiac imaging for cardiotoxicity

Event: ESC Cardio-Oncology 2025

Topic: Imaging

Session type: Satellite Symposium

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Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) and cardiac computed tomography (CT) opening up new cardiovascular pathways

Event: ESC Congress 2024

Topic: Cross-Modality and Multi-Modality Imaging Topics

Session type: Satellite Symposium

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Guidelines in Practice: personalised imaging a heart failure patient undergoing cancer therapy

Event: ESC Congress 2024

Topic: Imaging in Prevention and Rehabilitation

Session type: Guidelines in Practice

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Cardiotoxicity of cancer therapies

Event: ESC Congress 2023

Topic: Cardiotoxicity of Drugs and Other Therapies

Session type: Abstract Sessions

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ESC Core Curriculum for Cardio-Oncology

Event: ESC Congress 2023

Topic: Other

Session type: Special Session

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Specific cardiomyopathies

Event: Heart Failure 2023

Topic: Myocardial Disease

Session type: Symposium

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