Michael Henein is a Professor of Cardiology at Heart Centre, Umeå University. After completing 5 years of Clinical Senior Lecturership at Imperial College London and having led the Echocardiography Department at the Royal Brompton Hospital as Consultant in Cardiology and Echocardiography between 2001 and 2006, Michael Henein accepted the role of OverLakare and Hon. Professor at Umea University as part time, along with a professorship at Canterbury Christ Church University, Kent, UK. Currently, the most active projects that Michael Henein’s Team is working on are coronary calcification, heart failure and valvular heart disease. In addition, the academic environment and scientific collaboration between departments within Umea University assisted him in publishing over 350 papers in peer-reviewed journals, writing and editing three textbooks and many chapters, two of them in Oxford Textbook of Medicine, pericardial diseases and valvular heart diseases. Finally, he is also the Founder and Editor in Chief of the International Cardiovascular Forum Journal and a Guest Editor for the International Journal of Molecular Sciences and the Journal of Diagnostics.