Chairman of Postgraduate Program ‘Interventional Cardiology’ at Athens Medical School, President of Hellenic Society of Cardiology
Present Position and Address
- Professor of Cardiology
- Director of Cardio-oncology unit and structural heart disease unit, First Department of Cardiology, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens
- Chairman of the Postgraduate (MSc) program: ‘Interventional Cardiology’, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens
- President of the Hellenic Society of Cardiology (2024-2026)
- Chairperson-elect of ESC Council for Cardiology Practice (2024-2026)
- General Secretary of Hellenic Heart Foundation
- Board member of the Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center
- Board member of the Athens Medical School Faculty
- Board Member of Aglaia Kyriakou Children’s Hospital
- Member of ESC advocacy committee 2024-2026
Training and Education
- 1994: Graduation from Athens Medical School
- 1995-96: Military Service
- 1996-97: Internal Medicine Department of Air Force General Hospital 251, Athens, Greece
- 1997-99: 2nd Department of Internal Medicine, Athens Medical School, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece
- 1999-2001: First Department of Cardiology, Athens Medical School, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece
- August 2001- February 2002: Fellow in Interventional Cardiology, Centro Cuore Columbus, Milan, Italy
- March 2002-May 2003: Fellow in Interventional Cardiology, First Department of Cardiology, Athens Medical School, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece
- June 2003- May 2014: Interventional Cardiologist in Hippokration Hospital, First Department of Cardiology, Athens, Greece
- May 2014 – December 2018: Associate Professor of Cardiology, First Department of Cardiology
- December 2018: Professor of Cardiology, First Department of Cardiology
Post Graduate Degrees
- 2003: PhD on covered stents
- 2005: Lecturer of Cardiology, First Department of Cardiology, Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece
- 2009: Assistant Professor of Cardiology, First Department of Cardiology, Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece
- 2014: Associate Professor of Cardiology, First Department of Cardiology, Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece
- 2018: Professor of Cardiology, First Department of Cardiology, Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece
International Scientific Committee Participation
- Fellow of European Society of Cardiology (FESC)
- Member of European Association of Percutaneous Cardiovascular Intervention (EAPCI)
- Member of Society for Cardiac Angiography and Interventions (SCAI)
- Faculty member of Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) international meeting, Society for Cardiac Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) scientific sessions and PCR London valves
- Member of the American Diabetes Association
- Reviewer of EuroPCR submitted interesting cases
- Nominating Committee Member of European Society of Cardiology (2015-2016)
- Treasurer of ESC Council for Cardiology Practice (2020-2022)
- Communications coordinator of ESC Council for Cardiology Practice (2022-2024)
Fellowships / Honours
- 1999: Hellenic Cardiological Society scholarship
- 2001: European Society of Cardiology scholarship
- 1999, 2001, 2003, 2013: Hellenic Cardiological Society: Scientific Research award
- 2007: Distinction in oral presentation in international congress Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics
- 2012: Visiting Professor University of Bolton, Bolton, UK
- 2013: New York College of Athens: award of distinguished scientist
- Best poster presentation in ‘Behrakis Cardiovascular Symposium in Vascular Biology 2013’
- Highest ranking abstract from Greece in ACC’s annual Scientific Sessions 2015
- 2012-2014: President of the working Group of Interventional Cardiology of Hellenic Cardiological Society
- 2015: Best poster in European Society of Cardiology Congress
- 2016: Travel grant in European Stroke Conference
- 2021: Highest ranking abstract (Paul Dudley White Prize) from Greece in AHA’s annual scientific Sessions 2021
Major Publications
More than 570 publications in peer reviewed journal followed by 9800 citations (h-index=51).
Major Research Interest
- Clinical evaluation of new stent designs for the treatment of lesions in bifurcations, in thrombus containing lesions, saphenous vein grafts.
- Clinical evaluation of drug cardiotoxicity in oncology patients
- Invasive methods, including intrasvascular ultrasound, thermography and optical coherence tomography for evaluation of vulnerable or high-risk plaques.
- Non-invasive detection of vulnerable plaque inflammation by novel imaging modalities
- Clinicalstudyof patients with structural valve disease (valvular, ASD, PFO)
- Principal Investigator in multicenter randomized ‘Direct’ trial (Predilatation in Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation Trial, NCT02448927)
- Principal investigator in Greece of multicenter Landmark trial (NCT04275726)
- Principal investigator of beta-TAVI (impact of beta-blockers on TAVI, NCT05721170)
- Principal investigator of COMPASS-ART study (A Predictive Score for Arterial Thrombosis Associated With Cancer (NCT05256329)