Elpida Kroustalli is a nurse at Korgialenio- Mpenakio Hellenic Red Cross Hospital. She graduated from the Red Cross Nursing School in 2000 and in 2008 she graduated from the Department of Nursing of the National Technical University of Athens. Nurse Kroustalli holds a Masters degree in «Intensive Care Units - Cardiology Nursing» from the Medical Department of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She also has a Diploma in Teaching and currently she is a PhD candidate in the Medical Department of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She has attended over fifty (50) medical conferences and meetings and has made forty seven (47) announcements at conferences. She is the author of the book: ''Living with Heart Failure'' Athens 2017."Gramma" Publications.