**Meet the editor**

Prof Kirali received his PhD in 1997 at the Kosuyolu Heart and Research Hospital in Istanbul. He is collaborating with two cardiac centers: he is the Head of Heart Transplantation and Ventricular Assist Device department of Kosuyolu Hospital (Istanbul) and works at the CVS department of Faculty of Medicine of Sakarya University (Sakarya). Over the last 20 years, he has focused

his scientific interests on the topics related to cardiovascular therapies. He is an expert in congenital cardiac surgery, coronary bypass surgery, minimal invasive cardiac surgery, valve repair, and aortic root surgery. He has been interested in heart transplantation since 2000 and in theleft ventricular assist devices in the last years. He has been also interested in preventive medicine on cardiac failure since his public health MHSc in 2000 at the Istanbul University. He published numerous SCI journal papers and book chapters and edited/reviewed many academic journals.
