Alain Fraisse, MD and PhD, is the joint Clinical Director of Paediatric Cardiology, Respiratory and PICU at the Royal Brompton and Evelina Children’s Hospital, and a Visiting Professor at the Imperial College, London, UK. Formerly, Dr. Fraisse was the Head of Paediatric and Adult Congenital Cardiology at la Timone Hospital, Marseille, France; a Professor in Cardiology (2005), France; and the former President of the French Society of Paediatric Cardiology (2009-13). He completed his PhD in Respiratory Physiology, and became a Clinical Fellow in Boston Children’s Hospital in 1996 and 1999, Boston, USA, before working as a Junior Staff in the Necker Children’s Hospital (1999-2000), Paris, France. His expertise area is the interventional catheterization in congenital and structural heart disease. Dr. Fraisse has contributed to over 200 published research papers (Pubmed).