Dr. Adamantia Papamichail graduated from Pancyprian Lyceum of Larnaca in 2015 and completed her Medicine degree studies at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in 2022. She is currently working as a resident doctor at the Larnaca General Hospital, in Larnaca, Cyprus. Her research interests include heart-related medical issues and Pediatrics.

Christos Kourek is a resident physician in the Cardiology Department at the General Hospital of Kalamata. At the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, he completed the postgraduate program in “Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation” at the medical school with a grade of excellent, and obtained a Ph.D. from the 1st Intensive Care Unit of Evangelismos General Hospital. He has a special interest in cardiopulmonary resuscitation, endothelial progenitor cells in chronic heart failure, and interventional cardiology.

Alexandros Briasoulis is a cardiologist who specializes in advanced heart failure, transplantation, cardio-oncology and pulmonary hypertension. He earned his PhD in Medicine and Cardiology from the Faculty of Medicine, at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. He is currently working in the National and Kapodistrian Medical School and Clinical Therapeutics Clinic at Alexandra General Hospital. His research is focused on exploration of outcomes related to heart failure, LVAD implantation and heart transplantation, and is based on analyses of administrative and large clinical databases. His research and work focuses on cardiac amyloidosis.

Andrew Xanthopoulos is a consultant cardiologist at the University Hospital of Larissa, Greece. His research focuses on heart failure and diabetes. He has completed a fellowship in advanced heart failure (Heart and Vascular Institute, Kauffman Center for Heart Failure, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA). He is a journal reviewer at Circulation, European Journal of Heart Failure, American Journal of Transplantation, European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, Heart Failure Reviews, Future Cardiology, Clinical Epidemiology, ESC Heart Failure, BioMed Research International, and the Polish Archives of Internal Medicine. He is a member of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), European Association of Echocardiography (EAE), Heart Failure Association of the ESC (HFA), Hellenic Cardiological Society (HCS), European Association of Preventive Cardiology (EACPR), European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI), and the Heart Failure Society of America (HFSA).

Elias Tsougos is a cardiologist and director of the 6th Cardiology Clinic of Hygeia Hospital, Assistant Professor of Cardiology at the European University Cyprus (EUC), and President of the Hellenic Institute of Cardiology and Metabolism. In 2022, he was declared Physician of the Greek Olympic Committee and was also a member of the national rowing team. He has served for five consecutive years as director of the 2nd Cardiology Clinic of the Henry Dunant Hospital Center, and also served for two years as the director of the Cardiology Department of the Blue Cross. At Attikon General Hospital, he completed his residency in cardiology in 2008, specialized in heart failure, and received a Ph.D. in 2010. His research activity focuses on heart failure, the cardiac complications of diabetes mellitus, and metabolic syndrome. He has been honored with awards from Greek and international organizations and bodies, such as the Hellenic Society of Cardiology, where he received a scholarship to study the phospholamban gene in Greece in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy.

Dimitrios Farmakis earned a doctorate in hemoglobinopathy-associated heart disease from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (2003). He specialized in cardiology at Athens University Hospital (“Attikon”) and received his board certification in 2008. He received further training (in cardio-oncology at Bern University Hospital “Inselspital”; in Heart Failure at the University of Zurich; and in clinical trials at Harvard Medical School). He was in charge of the Cardiac Clinic for Hemoglobinopathies at Athens University Hospital (”Laiko”) in the period from 2012 to 2018, and has been in charge of the Cardio-Oncology Clinic at Athens University Hospital (“Attikon”) since 2015. In 2017 he was elected an Assistant Professor of Pathophysiology at the European University Cyprus and, one year later, became an Associate Professor of Physiology at the University of Cyprus. His research has focused on heart failure, hemoglobinopathies, cardiovascular pharmacology, and cardio-oncology. He is the immediate past president of the Working Group for Cardiomyopathies and Basic Research of the Hellenic Society of Cardiology, and he has received awards from Greek and international organizations and scientific bodies, such as the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (first award of excellence for the doctoral thesis), the University of Patras (distinguished young cardiologist award) and Harvard Medical School (distinction for the capstone project proposal).

Dr. Ioannis Paraskevaidis is a Professor of Cardiology in the Department of Clinical Therapeutics at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He completed his post-graduate studies at Technical University ‘Recht der Isar’, Munich, Germany and obtained his PhD from the Medical School at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He then completed his training in internal medicine at the NIMTS Hospital, Athens, GR and in cardiology at the General Hospital of Athens (“G. Gennimatas”) He has produced 72 publications in peer-reviewed journals, and has 1384 citations and a h-index of 22 (Scopus, 12 December 2023).