Stefan James is Professor of Cardiology and Scientific Director of Uppsala Clinical Research Center at Uppsala University. He is a Senior Interventional Cardiologist at Uppsala University Hospital Sweden. His research has been published in over 450 peer-reviewed cardiology journals, and he is an associate editor of Circulation and an editorial board member for the European Heart Journal, and American Heart Journal. Stefan James has served as PI on steering committees for numerous international trials in cardiology and has pioneered the concept of registry based randomized clinical trials. He has served as the chairman of the Swedish Coronary and Angioplasty registry of SWEDEHEART and the president of the Swedish Cardiac society. Stefan James has received numerous reseach prizes and awards. For several years, he has been named by Thomson Reuters as a ‘Highly Cited Researcher’, ranking him among the top 1% most cited in clinical medicine.