Dr. ED Pagourelias is an Assistant Professor in Cardiology at the Medical School of Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, specialized in Advanced Echocardiography and Cardiomyopathies. He has been awarded two MScs, one from the Medical School of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AuTH), on "Clinical Research Methodology" and one from The Medical School, Katholic University (KU) of Leuven on "Advanced Medical Imaging". His PhD Thesis was awarded from AuTH on advanced assesment of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and athlete's heart. He subspecialised in Cardiomyopathies in Heart Hospital, UCL, London under Prof. WJ Mackenna and Prof. PM Elliott and in advanced Echocardiography in KU Leuven under Prof. JU Voigt. For his research in KU Leuven on multimodality assessment (ECHO-CMR) of HCM he has been awarded an EACVI and Hellenic Society of Cardiology Research grants. He holds a TTE Accreditation, several scholarships and has published > 110 papers in peer reviewed journals (h-index 26).
