Mark La Meir, MD, PhD, is professor and Head of the Department Cardiac Surgery at the University Hospital Brussels, BE, and consultant at the Maastricht University Medical Center, NL. He earned his medical degree at the Free University Brussels in 1992 and his surgical degree in 1998. He received his PhD on “Hybrid Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation” at the Maastricht University Medical Center in 2012. He has a special interest in minimal invasive surgery and the treatment of arrhythmias.