Michail (Michael) I. Papafaklis, M.D., Ph.D., FESC in an Interventional Cardiologist and currently works as Assistant Professor of Cardiology at the Medical School, University of Patras, Greece. He attended the Medical School at the University of Ioannina, Greece, completing his M.D., and he was awarded with distinction his Ph.D. degree. He is a licensed Cardiologist both in Greece and the United Kingdom (GMC Specialist Register). He has been trained in Interventional Cardiology at Barts Heart Centre, St Bartholomew's Hospital in London, UK, and is certified in Interventional Cardiology by the European Association of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (EAPCI). Dr Papafaklis has worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology in USA, and he joined the George D. Behrakis Cardiovascular Research Fellowship in 2011. He has also been a visiting scientist in the Interventional Department of the Thoraxcenter, Erasmus MC in the Netherlands. Dr Papafaklis has authored more than 110 peer-reviewed papers and he has presented several abstracts in international cardiology conferences. During his MD studies he received Honorary Awards for excellence in Pathology, and more recently he was awarded research scholarships from the Hellenic Harvard Foundation and the Hellenic Heart Foundation. Also, he was the winner of the distinguished Young Investigator Award by the European Society of Cardiology in 2011, and he has received awards from the Academy of Athens and the Hellenic Cardiological Society. He serves as a reviewer in international medical journals. His research interests focus on hemodynamics, coronary physiology, invasive and non-invasive three-dimensional imaging of coronary arteries, biomedical engineering in the cardiovascular system, coronary stents, survival studies following percutaneous coronary interventions, and the pathophysiology and molecular mechanisms of atherosclerosis.