Christodoulos Stefanadis is Professor of Cardiology in the Medical School of the University of Athens. Previously, he was a Professor of Medicine, at Emory University, and a Professor of Internal Medicine, Cardiology at Yale University.

His main research interests include coronary heart disease, detection and treatment of vulnerable atheromatic plaque, aortic elastic properties, mitral valve disease, interventional treatment of resistant hypertension and designing many catheter types used for various diagnostic and therapeutic interventional procedures.