Dr Tom Kaier graduated in Medicine from the Medical University Innsbruck (Austria) and trained in Cardiology in London. He completed his interventional training through training at Barts Heart Centre and St Thomas’ Hospital. During his clinical training, he was both engaged in cardiovascular research and completed a Master of Business Administration.
With the competitive award of a Research Fellowship by the British Heart Foundation in 2015, he was able to complete a PhD in Cardiovascular Medical Research at King’s College London. His research investigated the role of novel biomarkers in ischaemic heart disease on a protein basis. He presented on national and international platforms, was a finalist in several young investigator competitions and won the HyTest Cardiac Marker Award for remarkable scientific work in the field of cardiovascular diseases, as well as the Royal Society of Medicine Research & Innovation Prize. He published extensively in peer-reviewed journals.
After spending a year as Interventional Fellow at Barts Heart Centre, he obtained an NIHR-funded Academic Clinical Lecturer post at King’s College London in 2019. This enabled him to remain research-active whilst expanding his interventional experience as CTO fellow at St Thomas’ Hospital with Dr Antonis Pavlidis. He was subsequently employed as Consultant in Coronary Intervention at St Thomas’ Hospital before moving to Royal Papworth Hospital in 2024.
Dr Kaier is happy to see adult self funding or insured private patients with any cardiac problem but he has a specialist interest in treating patients with chest pain and shortness of breath due to narrowed heart arteries. He specialises in complex stenting procedures from the wrist artery to treat chronic total occlusions of heart arteries.
- Coronary Intervention
- Intervention to Chronic Total Occlusions
- Calcium Modification with Shockwave IVL and Rotational Atherectomy
- Intravascular Imaging and Coronary Physiology
- Cardiac Support Devices
- Cardiac biomarkers of myocardial injury
- Interventional cardiology and complex coronary interventions
- 2008 MD, Medical University Innsbruck (Austria)
- 2011 Membership of the Royal College of Physicians (MRCP), London
- 2015 European Exam of General Cardiology (EEGC)
- 2017 Master of Business Administration (MBA), Middlesex University, London
- 2019 Cardiovascular CT Experience Level 2, Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography
- 2019 PhD in Cardiovascular Medical Research, King’s College London
- 2021 Leadership & Professional Development in Healthcare Course, King’s College London
- 2023 Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) in Interventional Cardiology
- Member of the General Medical Council, 7025841
- British Cardiovascular Society
- British Cardiovascular Intervention Society
Couch LS, Garrard JW, Henry JA, Kotronias RA, Alaour B, De Maria GL, Channon KM, Banning AP, Lyon AR, Marber M, Kaier TE. Comparison of troponin and natriuretic peptides in Takotsubo syndrome and acute coronary syndrome: a meta-analysis. Open Heart. 2024;11:e002607.
Hosseini N, Kaier TE. Gender Disparity in Cardiovascular Disease in the Era of Precision Medicine. JACC: Case Reports. 2023;23:101985.
Xenogiannis I, Pavlidis AN, Kaier TE, Rigopoulos AG, Karamasis GV, Triantafyllis AS, Vardas P, Brilakis ES, Kalogeropoulos AS. The role of intravascular imaging in chronic total occlusion percutaneous coronary intervention. Front Cardiovasc Med. 2023;10:1199067.
Hasselbalch RB, Alaour B, Kristensen JH, Couch LS, Kaier TE, Nielsen TL, Plesner LL, Strandkjær N, Schou M, Rydahl C, Goetze JP, Bundgaard H, Marber M, Iversen KK. Hemodialysis and biomarkers of myocardial infarction – a cohort study. Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (CCLM). 2023
Alaour B, Kaier TE, Hasselbalch RB, Van Doorn W, Meex S, Marber M. Direct Comparison of the Circadian Rhythm of Cardiac Myosin-Binding Protein C (cMyC) and Cardiac Troponin. The Journal of Applied Laboratory Medicine. 2023
Kaier TE, Aroney N, Kalogeropoulos AS, Bhavnani CD, Marciniak M, Pavlidis AN. Antegrade Dissection Re-entry for Management of Retained Microcatheter Tips During PCI for Chronic Total Occlusion: A Case Series. Journal of Invasive Cardiology. 2022;34:4.
Kaier TE, Kalogeropoulos AS, Pavlidis AN. Use of Trapping Techniques and a GooseNeck Snare to Retrieve a Fractured Balloon Catheter. J Invasive Cardiol. 2022;34:E640–E641.
Couch LS, Sinha A, Navin R, Hunter L, Perera D, Marber MS, Kaier TE. Rapid risk stratification of acute coronary syndrome: adoption of an adapted European Society of Cardiology 0/1-hour troponin algorithm in a real-world setting. European Heart Journal Open. 2022
Kaier TE, Pavlidis A, Smith EJ. Percutaneous Intervention for Coronary Chronic Total Occlusion (Book) - How to Manage Radiation and Contrast During Chronic Total Occlusion Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (Chapter 14) Springer 2022
Kaier TE, Hurrell H, Patterson T, Li Kam Wa M, Fisk G, Stewart J, Baig K, Ghosh-Dastidar M, Young CP, Redwood SR, De Silva K, Clapp B, Perera D, Pavlidis AN. The Impact of a Dedicated Chronic Total Occlusion PCI Program on Heart Team Decision Making. J Invasive Cardiol. 2022;JIC20220727-2.
Kaier TE, Twerenbold R, Lopez-Ayala P, Nestelberger T, Boeddinghaus J, Alaour B, et al. A 0/1h-algorithm using cardiac myosin-binding protein C for early diagnosis of myocardial infarction. European Heart Journal Acute Cardiovascular Care. 2022
Aengevaeren VL, van Kimmenade RRJ, Ordóñez‐Llanos J, García‐Osuna Á, Kaier TE, Marber M, Froeling M, van den Berg‐Faay S, Hooijmans MT, Monte JR, Hopman MTE, Strijkers GJ, Nederveen AJ, Bakermans AJ, Eijsvogels TMH. Cardiac Biomarker Kinetics and Their Association With Magnetic Resonance Measures of Cardiomyocyte Integrity Following a Marathon Run: Implications for Postexercise Biomarker Testing. JAHA. 2021
Alaour B, Omland T, Torsvik J, Kaier TE, Sylte MS, Strand H, Quraishi J, McGrath S, Williams L, Meex S, Redwood S, Marber M, Aakre KM. Biological variation of cardiac myosin-binding protein C in healthy individuals. Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine 2021. https://doi.org/10.1515/cclm-2021-0306
Nestelberger T, Boeddinghaus J, Lopez-Ayala P, Kaier TE, Marber M, Gysin V, Koechlin L, Sanchez AY, Giménez MR, Wussler D, Walter JE, Strebel I, Zimmermann T, Glarner N, Miró Ò, Martin-Sanchez FJ, Zehnder T, Twerenbold R, Keller DI, Mueller C, APACE Investigators. Cardiovascular Biomarkers in the Early Discrimination of Type 2 Myocardial Infarction. JAMA Cardiol 2021
Kaier TE, Bennett J, Pavlidis AN. Complex PCI Techniques in Rescue of a Rare Complication of Coronary Angiography. JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions. 2021;S1936879821002661.
Kaier TE, Alaour B, Marber M. Cardiac troponin and defining myocardial infarction. Cardiovascular Research. 2021;13.
Kozhuharov N*, Wussler D*, Kaier T*, Strebel I, Shrestha S, Flores D, Nowak A, Sabti Z, Nestelberger T, Zimmermann T, Walter J, Belkin M, Michou E, Lopez Ayala P, Gualandro DM, Keller DI, Goudev A, Breidthardt T, Mueller C, Marber M, for the BASEL V investigators. Cardiac Myosin‐Binding Protein C in the Diagnosis and Risk Stratification of Acute Heart Failure. Eur J Heart Fail. 2021;ejhf.2094.
Kaier TE, Kalogeropoulos AS, Pavlidis AN. Retrograde Balloon Inflation to Retrieve a Twisted Guiding Catheter. JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions. 2020;13:e181–e183.
Kaier TE, Kalogeropoulos A, Pavlidis AN. Guide-Extension Facilitated Antegrade Dissection Re-entry: A Case Series. J Invasive Cardiol. 2020;32:E209–E212.
Gambaro A, Ho HH, Kaier TE, Pires-Morais G, Patel JA, Ansari Ramandi MM. Management of Acute Coronary Syndrome in the COVID-19 Era. JACC: Case Reports. 2020;2:1429–1432.
Collins GB, Jenner WJ, Kaier TE, Bhattacharyya S. COVID-19: A United Kingdom National Health Service cardiology perspective. JACC: Case Reports. 2020.
Kaier TE, Chapman AR, Perera D, Marber M, Mills NL. Regarding Periprocedural PCI Myocardial Biomarker Elevation and Mortality. J Am Coll Cardiol Intv. 2020;13:265.
Kaier TE, Stengaard C, Marjot J, Sørensen JT, Alaour B, Stavropoulou‐Tatla S, Terkelsen CJ, Williams L, Thygesen K, Weber E, Marber M, Bøtker HE. Cardiac Myosin‐Binding Protein C to Diagnose Acute Myocardial Infarction in the Pre‐Hospital Setting. J Am Heart Assoc. 2019;8.
Kaier TE, Alaour B, Marber M. Cardiac Myosin-Binding Protein C—From Bench to Improved Diagnosis of Acute Myocardial Infarction. Cardiovasc Drugs Ther. 2019;33:221–230.
Modi BN, Rahman H, Kaier T, Ryan M, Williams R, Briceno N, Ellis H, Pavlidis A, Redwood S, Clapp B, Perera D. Revisiting the Optimal Fractional Flow Reserve and Instantaneous Wave-Free Ratio Thresholds for Predicting the Physiological Significance of Coronary Artery Disease. Circ Cardiovasc Interv. 2018;11:1–8.
Alaour B, Liew F, Kaier TE. Cardiac Troponin - diagnostic problems and impact on cardiovascular disease. Annals of Medicine. 2018;50:655–665.
Kaier TE, Twerenbold R, Puelacher C, Marjot J, Imambaccus N, Boeddinghaus J, et al. Response by Kaier et al to Letter Regarding Article, “Direct Comparison of Cardiac Myosin-Binding Protein C With Cardiac Troponins for the Early Diagnosis of Acute Myocardial Infarction”. Circulation. 2018;138:544–5.
Kaier TE, Alaour B, Marber M. Cardiac myosin-binding protein C: how a novel biomarker could transform chest pain triage. Biomarkers in Medicine. 2018;12:823–826.
Kaier TE. What next for Troponin? When Diagnostic Precision Muds the Water for the Physician. British Journal of Cardiology. 2017
Kaier TE*, Marjot J*, Henderson K, Hunter L, Marber MS, Perera D. A single centre prospective cohort study addressing the effect of a rule-in/rule-out troponin algorithm on routine clinical practice. European Heart Journal: Acute Cardiovascular Care. 2017.
Anand A, Chin C, Shah ASV, Kwieciński J, Vesey A, Cowell J, Weber E, Kaier T, Newby DE, Dweck M, Marber MS, Mills NL. Cardiac myosin-binding protein C is a novel marker of myocardial injury and fibrosis in aortic stenosis. Heart. 2017
Kaier TE, Twerenbold R, Puelacher C, Marjot J, Imambaccus N, Boeddinghaus J, et al. Direct Comparison of Cardiac Myosin-Binding Protein C With Cardiac Troponins for the Early Diagnosis of Acute Myocardial Infarction. Circulation. 2017;136:1495–1508.
Schwaiger JP, Knight DS, Kaier T, Gallimore A, Denton CP, Schreiber BE, Handler C, Coghlan JG. Two-dimensional knowledge-based volumetric reconstruction of the right ventricle documents short-term improvement in pulmonary hypertension. Echocardiography. 2017;37:67.
*Kaier TE, *Marjot J, Martin ED, Reji SS, Copeland O, Iqbal M, Goodson B, Hamren S, Harding SE, Marber MS. Quantifying the Release of Biomarkers of Myocardial Necrosis from Cardiac Myocytes and Intact Myocardium. Clin Chem. 2017;63:990–996.
