Grigorios Korosoglou

Prof. Grigorios Korosoglou has been The Chair of the Department of Cardiology and Vascular Medicine in the GRN Academic Teaching Hospital Weinheim since January 2015. Before this appointment he was Chair of the cardiac imaging section (CCT & CMR) at the Department of Cardiology, Angiology and Pneumology of the University of Heidelberg, Germany (Director of the Department: Prof. Dr. Hugo A. Katus). He has received his medical degree from the Justus-Liebig University of Giessen in 2000, including his doctoral promotion with Prof. Dr. F. Grimminger. In addition, he was a visiting scientist at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA, from 2005 to 2007, where he worked together with Prof. Matthias Stuber. He and his group have published over 160 peer-reviewed scientific articles in cardiac imaging, focusing on imaging of the atherosclerotic plaque and on the detection of myocardial ischemia. Furthermore, he is currently the elected Vice Chair (2018-2021) of the working group cardiac computed tomography and an elected nucleus member (2019-2021) of the working group Angiology in the German Society of Cardiology. Prof. Dr. Grigorios Korosoglou has received several prizes and institutional grants for experimental and clinical studies in cardiac imaging and vascular medicine.