Ioannis Paraskevaidis received his Ph.D. from Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in 1990, and he finished his post-graduate studies in (a) Basic Research Cardiology and (b) Intracoronary Ultrasound at Technical University ‘Recht der Isar’, Munich, Germany in 1993. He is currently a Professor of Cardiology-Therapeutics at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and is affiliated with the 6th Department of Cardiology, Hygeia Hospital, Athens, Greece.