Dr Ignatios Ikonomidis is Professor in Cardiology in the 2nd Cardiology Department, Attikon Hospital, Medical School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. He is the Head of the Echocardiography and the Laboratory of Preventive Cardiology of the 2nd Cardiology Department, and runs the Clinic of Cardiometabolic disease and Smoking Cessation.  He is the president of the board of the International Association on Smoking Control and Harm Reduction (SCOHRE). He works in the field of non-invasive cardiovascular imaging and ventricular–arterial coupling in cardiac diseases. He has a national and worldwide reputation and is regarded as one of the leading experts in the field of echocardiography and inflammation in CV diseases.
