George Latsios is a Consultant Interventional Cardiologist/Assistant in charge of the CCU at the first University Dept of Cardiology, Hippokration General Hospital. He obtained his Ph.D. Doctorate in Medicine at the University of Athens in 2004. He worked as a Cathlab Fellow at the "Helios" Heart Center Siegburg-Bonn from 2008 to 2010. He has been President of the WG CPR & Intensive Care, Hellenic Cardiology Society, since 2016. He specializes in Interventional Cardiology. His clinical interests are Cardiovascular, Interventional Cardiology, Cardiovascular Disease, Diabetes Mellitus, Heart Failure, Cardiology, and Aortic Valve.
Konstantinos Toutouzas is a Professor of Cardiology at the University of Athens, Greece. He completed his medical studies at the University of Athens Medical School and his residency at the First Department of Cardiology of the University of Athens in Hippokration Hospital. He also completed an interventional cardiology fellowship at Centro Cuore Columbus in Milan, Italy. Since 2014, he has been serving as an Associate Professor of Cardiology in the First Department of Cardiology at the University of Athens. Additionally, he has held a visiting associate professorship at the University of Bolton. He is a member of several scientific societies, including the Hellenic Society of Cardiology, the European Society of Cardiology (FESC), the European Association of Percutaneous Cardiovascular Intervention (EAPCI), and the Society for Cardiac Angiography and Interventions (SCAI). He has also served as the chairman of the Greek Working Group on Interventional Cardiology. His main research interests include the invasive assessment of vulnerable or high-risk plaques, such as intravascular ultrasound, thermography, and optical coherence tomography. He also focuses on the non-invasive detection of vulnerable plaque inflammation by novel imaging modalities, as well as the clinical study of patients with severe aortic valve stenosis undergoing transcatheter aortic valve implantation.
