Michael A. Gatzoulis, MD, PhD, FACC, FESC is Professor of Cardiology and Consultant Cardiologist, Adult Congential Heart Centre and Centre for Pulmonary Hypertension, Royal Brompton Hospital, London. He is a co-author of Diagnosis and Management of Adult Congenital Heart Disease, 3rd Edition.

Professor Gatzoulis graduated from the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Greece, and completed his post-graduate training in London (including a PhD from Imperial College London) and in Toronto, Canada.

Professor Gatzoulis’s research interests include congenital heart disease, pulmonary arterial hypertension, and heart disease and pregnancy. He regularly lectures at national and international meetings and has been a visiting professor at Harvard, Stanford, Vanderbilt Universities, the University of Athens, the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, and the Japan Heart Institute.

He is the past president of the International Society for Adult Congenital Heart Disease (ISACHD) the largest professional body in the field. He also holds executive or advisory board positions in other professional organizations, including the International Committee of the American College of Cardiology and the Royal Society of Medicine Cardiology Council. He is also the founder and co-director of one of the most established conferences in adult congenital heart disease, the Advanced Symposium on Congenital Heart Disease in the Adult.

He has served as associate editor, guest editor, or reviewer for most major journals in the cardiovascular field. He is also the author of over 250 peer-reviewed publications, including papers in Nature, New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, and Circulation.