Professor Kornelia Kotseva is a Consultant Cardiologist and a Senior Clinical Research Fellow at the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London and holds a position asVisiting Professor of Cardiovascular Epidemiology and Prevention at the Department of Public Health, University of Ghent, Belgium.

She is a Chair of the Scientific Steering Committee of the European Society of Cardiology EUROASPIRE IV and V surveys in 26 European countries, aiming to describe the lifestyle and risk factor management in patients with coronary heart disease and in people at high risk of developing cardiovascular disease.  Furthermore, she was a Principal Investigator of the EUROASPIRE III Health Economics study and a medical coordinator of the European Society of Cardiology EUROASPIRE III survey, the British Cardiovascular Society ASPIRE-2-PREVENT survey and the European Society of Cardiology EUROACTION and EUROACTION PLUS studies.

She has won numerous prestigious awards and has authored more than 160 publications in peer reviewed journals, two textbooks and chapters for a further eight textbooks. She is a member of the International Editorial Board of the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, a past member of the Nucleus of the former European Society of Cardiology Working Group on Epidemiology and Prevention and a Member of the Research Council of the Foundation for Circulatory Health (FFCH), International Centre for Circulatory Health, NHLI, Imperial College London.

She teaches at the Master’s Certificate of Advanced and Short Course programme in ‘Preventive Cardiology – Cardiovascular Health and Disease Prevention’ at Imperial College London and leads the module on Cardiovascular Risk Estimation for the Imperial College MSc in Preventive Cardiology.

Her main research interests are in lipids, blood pressure, diabetes, and prevention of cardiovascular disease.