Chris J. Kapelios received his MD summa cum laude from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) in 2010. He went on to complete his Ph.D. on myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury in 2016. He received his MSc in Health Economics, Outcomes and Management in Cardiovascular Sciences with Distinction from the London School of Economics in 2019. He is board certified in Cardiology since 2021. Previously a Heart Failure fellow at the Royal Brompton Hospital, UK, and an Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant fellow at the University of Utah, USA, he currently works as an attending Heart Failure and Transplantation cardiologist at the Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, Athens, Greece. He has recently been elected assistant Professor of Heart Failure Cardiology at the NKUA. His research interest focuses primarily on advanced heart failure, hemodynamics, decongestion and pharmacotherapy, topics on which he has published to date more than 90 articles in peer-reviewed journals.