Perry Elliott is director of the UCL Institute of Cardiovascular Science and a consultant cardiologist at St. Bartholomew's Hospital London. He is past chairman of the ESC Heart Academy, the ESC Council on Cardiovascular Genomics, the ESC Working Group on Myocardial and Pericardial Diseases and the Executive Committee for the European Outcomes Research Programme registry on cardiomyopathies. He is an executive Editor for the European Heart Journal. For almost 30 years, he has led numerous international consortia and has made substantial scientific and policy contributions including clinical risk tools, discovery of rare and common genetic causes of inherited heart conditions, and US and European Practice guidelines. He has published more than 800 articles in the field and was listed in Clarivate’s annual ‘Highly Cited Researchers List’ in 2024 and 2025. He is founder and chair of the International Cardiomyopathy Network and President of Cardiomyopathy UK.