The Birth, and Evolution, of Percutaneous Coronary Interventions A Conversation With Patrick Serruys, MD, PhD

Professor Patrick W. Serruys, MD, PhD, has been a Senior Interventional Cardiologist since 1977, Chief of Interventional Research since 1988, and Chief of Interventional Cardiology at the Thorax Center of Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Emeritus, since April 1, 2014. He was the first Chair of Interventional Cardiology created by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). Currently, he is Professor of Cardiology in the Cardiovascular Science Division of the National Heart and Lung Institute (NHLI) of Imperial College London. Dr Serruys received his MD in 1972 from the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, and his PhD in 1986 from the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.