Leonidas Poulimenos

Leonidas Poulimenos MD, FESC is interventional cardiologist, and head of the Department of Cardiology, at “Asklepeion” General Hospital, Athens, Greece. He is past chairperson of the working group on Valvular Heart Disease, Adult Congenital Heart Disease and Pulmonary Hypertension of the Hellenic Cardiological Society. His scientific interests are coronary artery disease (interventions and medical management), hypertension and its consequences in heart and vessels, and valvular heart disease. He is a reviewer for scientific journals and has participated in many international clinical trials. He has authored many papers in peer reviewed international journals, and chapters in books, mainly in the fields of hypertension and coronary artery disease.