Stefan James

Stefan James is Professor of Cardiology at Uppsala University, Scientific Director of Uppsala Clinical Research Center and a senior Interventional Cardiologist at Uppsala University Hospital Sweden. He is the president of the Swedish society of Cardiology and a Fellow of the ESC. Professor James co-chaired the previous and current 2017 ESC guidelines for ST-elevation myocardial infarction, co-author of several of the recent European guidelines on ACS and revascularization. Stefan James has served on executive steering committees for numerous international trials in cardiology. He has long served as the chairman of the SCAAR and a member of the steering committee of SWEDEHEART. He has pioneered the concept of registry based randomized clinical trials. His research has been published in over 400 peer-reviewed cardiology journals, and he is an associate editor of Circulation and an editorial board member for the EHJ and AHJ.