Apostolos Tzikas, MD, PhD, FESC is a structural heart interventionalist at AHEPA University of Thessaloniki and European Interbalkan Medical Center, Greece. He has a long-standing interest in stroke prevention and LAA closure in particular; he published the first multi-center, large-scale registry regarding the ACP occluder and was the leading author of the Munich consensus document on definitions and clinical endpoints for LAA closure studies. He has a PhD in interventional cardiology (The role of advanced imaging in TAVI) from the Thoraxcenter, Rotterdam and he is an experienced clinical proctor for Abbott in TAVI and LAA closure. He has served as faculty to TCT, EuroPCR and other international meetings with presentations and live case transmissions on LAA implantation techniques and troubleshooting.
