Professor Serruys is Professor of Interventional Cardiology and Head of Interventional Department at Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Rotterdam. His primary research interests are coronary artery disease and interventional cardiology, for which he received numerous awards. He is also a Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology and the American College of Cardiology, and a member of the Scientific Council of the International College of Angiology. He is Associate Editor of Circulation and serves on the editorial boards of several other journals. Professor Serruys has published more than 1300 papers and co-edited 31 books.