Stephan Achenbach, MD, FSCCT (@Steph_Achenbach) is the Chairman of Cardiology and a Professor of Medicine at the University of Erlangen, Germany. His research interests focus on cardiovascular imaging, mainly computed tomography, for the early detection and characterization of coronary atherosclerosis and for the support of coronary and cardiovascular interventional procedures.
He was the Founding President of the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography from 2005-2007, and served as a Vice President of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) for the 2014-2016 period. Dr. Achenbach is currently a Board Member of ESC and Chair of the Congress Program Committee and serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography .