Professor Kornelia Kotseva

Professor Kornelia Kotseva

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London (United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland)

Professor Kornelia Kotseva, MD, PhD, FESC holds an academic appointment at the National Institute for Prevention and Cardiovascular Health, National University of Ireland – Galway, and a position as a Consultant Cardiologist at the Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK. She has been Chair of the Steering Committee of the European Society of Cardiology EUROASPIRE surveys, aiming to describe the risk factor management in patients with coronary disease and in people at high cardiovascular risk in Europe. Furthermore, she was a Principal Investigator and led several other European and UK studies. She has won numerous prestigious awards and has authored more than 250 publications. She led the module on Cardiovascular Risk Estimation and was involved in the development of the Master’s programme on Cardiovascular Health and Disease Prevention, Imperial College London. Her main research and clinical interest is primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease.