Dr Takashi Muramatsu is an interventional cardiologist and currently associate professor of Cardiology at the Fujita Health University, Japan. He received his MD degree in 2000 and PhD in 2011 from the Nagoya University, Japan. He also earned another PhD in 2015 under the supervision of Professor Patrick Serruys at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands. His clinical and research interest has focused on coronary interventions including bioresorbable scaffolds and intracoronary imaging as well as structural heart disease interventions recently. He has been a Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology (FESC) since 2014.