Professor of Cardiology, Congenital Heart Disease and Consultant Cardiologist
Adult Congenital Heart Centre and National Centre for Pulmonary Hypertension
Royal Brompton & Harefield Hospitals, Guys & St Thomas’s NHS Trust and
National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, UK

Michael A. Gatzoulis, MD, PhD, is the Academic Head of the Adult Congenital Heart Centre and National Centre for Pulmonary Hypertension at the Royal Brompton Hospital and the Professor of Cardiology, Congenital Heart Disease (CHD) at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London. Professor Gatzoulis has edited, co-edited or served as Section Editor for several cardiology and other textbooks, authored over 450 peer-reviewed publications, is the Founding Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Cardiology Congenital Heart Disease, Deputy Editor of the European Heart Journal and served as an Associate/Guest Editor for most major cardiovascular journals. He has been a Visiting Professor in many institutions worldwide, including Harvard, Stanford, the Montreal Heart, the Aristotle University and others, run one of the largest ACHD Training Programs in the world and served as President of the International Society for Adult Congenital Cardiac Disease and currently, as the Chair of the ESC WG in ACHD. His main interest is to promote the needs of CHD patients, and his research focus is on mechanisms and prevention of heart failure in CHD and the treatment of PH.