J. Wouter Jukema is professor and head of the department of cardiology. Also he is co-chair of the Netherlands Heart Institute (NLHI) in Utrecht, the Netherlands, as well as a past “Established Clinical Investigator” of the Netherlands Heart Foundation and past chairman of the Dutch Atherosclerosis Society as well as founding director of the Durrer Center for Cardiogenetic Research in Amsterdam. Prof. Jukema is principal investigator of many major interventional/athero-thrombosis studies, a member of various national and international athero-thrombosis boards and holder of multiple major (a.o. European Union) grants. He published many manuscripts in the leading scientific international journals. He has an H-index of > 135.