Kyriakos Spiliopoulos is an assistant professor at the Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery Clinic, at the General University Hospital of Larissa. He received his M.D. degree from Medical School, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, in 1996. He started his academic career as research fellow at the Department of Experimental Cardiology, German Heart Center Munich, from 1996 to 1997 and completed his residency in cardiac surgery at the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery at the Klinikum Munich Bogenhausen, Germany, in 2004.