Prof. Dr. Perry Elliott is a Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at University College London and a Senior Investigator at the UK National Institute for Health Research. He is director of the UCL Institute of Cardiovascular Science and a consultant cardiologist at St. Bartholomew's Hospital London. He is Chairman of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Heart Academy and past chair of the ESC Council on Cardiovascular Genomics, the ESC Working Group on Myocardial and Pericardial Diseases, and the Executive Committee for the European Outcomes Research Programme registry on cardiomyopathies. He is an Executive Editor for the European Heart Journal. He studied medicine at St. Thomas’s Hospital Medical School, London. After qualifying in 1987, he trained in general medicine, gained membership in the Royal College of Physicians in 1991, and completed his general cardiology training at St. George’s Hospital Medical School, London. He was appointed as Senior Lecturer, first at St. George’s Hospital in 1999 and then at UCL in 2003. He was promoted to Reader in Inherited Cardiac Disease in 2005 and became a full Professor at UCL in 2012. He is a recognised world authority in heart muscle disease. His most important research contributions include gene identification, development and application of risk tools, biomarker discovery, and clinical trials in rare diseases.