Dr. Alexandros Mallios is a board-certified vascular surgeon dealing with all aspects of vascular disease and particularly focuses on innovating minimally invasive advanced endovascular techniques, aortic, carotid and vascular access surgery. After 4 years of vascular surgery training in Paris, he obtained the ECFMG certificate with stellar USMLE scores and was accepted as the inaugural fellow of an ACGME-accredited vascular surgery fellowship program at the University of Oklahoma, Tulsa. He was awarded the Edward B. Diethrich Vascular Surgical Society International Traveling Fellowship and spent 1 month with Roy Greenberg at the Cleveland Clinic, OH. After completion of his fellowship, he worked as vascular surgery staff at the Vascular Surgery department of Institut Mutualiste Hospital in Paris. During that period, he invented several new surgical techniques and pioneered and optimized the endoAVF creation with Ellipsys, which is now being performed worldwide according to his technical modifications as published in the Journal of Vascular Surgery. He served as Director of Physician Training for Avenu Medical, now part of Medtronic. Since Sept. 2020, he has served as Chief of Vascular at the Regional Hospital of Chartres and Director of Vascular Access at the University Hospital of Paris St Joseph. Dr. Mallios is editor of the first book focused on modern endovascular techniques in AV access and has authored more than 60 journal articles, abstracts, and textbook chapters.