**Meet the editor**

Born in 1958, Dr. Alexandrescu graduated at the Leuven Medical University (UCL, Saint-Luc University) in Brussels in 1994 (with honorary distinction).Adding further to postgraduate stages, he acquired complementary endovascular skills (particularly in carotid, aortic, and below-the-knee peripheral revascularizations) in Saint Joseph Hospital in Marseille (Pr. P. Bergeron and Pr.

J. Jausseran), France, and earned particular experience in lower limb CTO recanalization techniques in Leicester Royal Infirmary (Professors P. R. Bell and N. J. London, Vascular Dept. University of Leicester), UK. Currently Dr. Alexandrescu assumes the Chief Department function of the General, Thoracic, and Vascular Surgery Department of the "Princess Paola" Hospital and also Senior Vascular Consultant in the Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery Department, CHU Sart Tilman Hospital, University of Medicine, Liège, Belgium. He equally affects institutional "coordination for surgical trainees" in general and vascular surgery, affiliated to the Liège University of Medicine in Belgium. Since 2001, he established and currently participates at the "Multidisciplinary Diabetes Foot Clinic" activities in "Princess Paola" Hospital. Owning more than 53 publications dedicated to endovascular peripheral treatment, diabetic limb-salvage techniques, and tissue regeneration in different surgical and medical journals, Dr. Alexandrescu promotes specific inferior limb reperfusion techniques such as targeted below-the-knee angioplasties following the "angiosome" model of vascularization.
