Dr. M V Ezhov is a Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology and a Member of the American Heart Association, the American College of Cardiology, and the European Atherosclerosis Society. In 1993, he was employed by the Federal State Budget Institution «National Medical Cardiology Research Center», the Ministry of Healthcare of Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia, as a lead researcher. Since 2015, he has also held the position of President of the Russian National Atherosclerosis Society. Within his scientific research, he had performed clinical studies with a focus on lipoprotein(a) and apolipoprotein(a) phenotyping in patients with CHD, including long-term prospective data. Since 1997, he has served as a principal investigator, a study coordinator, and a sub-investigator in multiple international clinical trials in lipidology, cardiology, and diabetes mellitus.