Optimizing CLTI Treatment with Imaging and Atherectomy

Prof. Grigorios Korosoglou has been The Chair of the Department of Cardiology and Vascular Medicine in the GRN Academic Teaching Hospital Weinheim since January 2015. Before this appointment he was Chair of the cardiac imaging section (CCT & CMR) at the Department of Cardiology, Angiology and Pneumology of the University of Heidelberg, Germany (Director of the Department: Prof. Dr. Hugo A. Katus). He has received his medical degree from the Justus-Liebig University of Giessen in 2000, including his doctoral promotion with Prof. Dr. F. Grimminger. In addition, he was a visiting scientist at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA, from 2005 to 2007, where he worked together with Prof. Matthias Stuber. He and his group have published over 160 peer-reviewed scientific articles in cardiac imaging, focusing on imaging of the atherosclerotic plaque and on the detection of myocardial ischemia. Furthermore, he is currently the elected Vice Chair (2018-2021) of the working group cardiac computed tomography and an elected nucleus member (2019-2021) of the working group Angiology in the German Society of Cardiology. Prof. Dr. Grigorios Korosoglou has received several prizes and institutional grants for experimental and clinical studies in cardiac imaging and vascular medicine.

Dr Konstantinos Stavroulakis is a Consultant Vascular and Endovascular Surgeon at St. Franziskus Hospital, Münster, Germany. He trained at the University of Crete Medical School until 2009. He moved to Germany in 2012 and became a Trainee of Surgery and Vascular Surgery at the Paracelsus Clinic Marl, Germany. He achieved his Postgraduate (Dr.med) qualification in March 2016 from the Westphälische-Wilhelms-Universität Münster. His thesis was - Combination therapy with directional atherectomy and drug eluting balloon angioplasty for isolated lesions of the popliteal artery. He currently is Scientific Director of the Institute for Vascular Research as well as Editor in Chief Vascupedia. As well as being involved in numerous research trials he presents at all the major vascular congresses.

Dr Sukhjinder Nijjer is a Consultant Cardiologist and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at Imperial College London. He is the President of Cardiology at the Royal Society of Medicine and is the Communication Lead for the British Cardiovascular Intervention Society. He works at the Hammersmith Hospital as an Interventional Cardiologist and is an expert in Coronary Physiology. His PhD research focused on the development of instantaneous wave-free ratio (iFR) pullback and co-registration. He has published over 100 original academic papers and has involved in the DEFINE-FLAIR, SYNTAX-II and ORBITA-1 and ORBITA-2 research studies.