Konstantinos G Moulakakis, MD, PhD, MSc, FEBVS, is a Consultant in the Department of Vascular Surgery, Attikon University Hospital, Athens, Greece. He graduated in 1997 from University of Patras-Greece and he completed his Thesis in University of Athens in 2007. He has completed a 5 year residency in General Surgery and a 4 year residency in vascular surgery. He is a board certified vascular surgeon (Hellenic Board Certification for Vascular and Endovascular Surgery 2008, German Board Certification for Vascular and Endovascular Surgery 2009, European Board Certification for Vascular and Endovascular Surgery 2011). He has worked in the past in the Department of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, University Clinic of Cologne, Germany and he has successfully graduated from the postgraduate Program “Endovascular techniques” (organized from the Department of Vascular Surgery, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and the Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Milano - Bicocca, Monza). He has more than 120 international publications, he has participated in unfunded and funded clinical studies (GALA Trial, ACST II) and protocols and he is the principal Investigator in Greece in the OVATION Post Market Registry. He is member of the Collaborative Research (CORE) Group, Sydney, Australia (International Advisory Committee) and also member of the European Society for Vascular Surgery. He currently serves as secretary of Hellenic Society for Vascular and Endovascular Surgery and secretary of Hellenic Society of Phlebology. He has received several honors, praises and awards in Greece and Europe and educational grant from the European Society of Vascular Surgery. He is member of the Editorial Board of International peer review journals and reviewer in Annals of Vascular Surgery, Journal of Vascular Diseases (VASA), Journal of Endovascular Therapy (JEVT), Annals of Cardiothoracic Surgery (ACS), Vascular and Endovascular, Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery (Torino), International Journal of Angiology, European Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery, PlosOne.