Dr Alar Irs is an interventional and intensive care cardiologist at the departments of Angiography and Cardiac Intensive Care of the Tartu University Hospital. He is Head of Heart Clinic at the Tartu University Hospital and is a Senior Teaching Physician in Cardiology. He is a Board Member and Secretary of the Estonian Society of Cardiology and a Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology. He has also trained as a clinical pharmacologist and is currently the Chief Medical Officer for the Estonian Medicines Regulatory Agency, being responsible for the Agency's participation at the EU/EMA scientific committees, for the medical quality of the Agency's decisions and for communication with stakeholders. Dr Irs represents Estonia at the European Medicines Agency's (EMA) Committee for Human Medicinal Products (CHMP) and is the Chair of its Cardiovascular Working Party.