Dr Stéphane Rinfret is professor of Medicine at Emory University and associate
director of complex coronary intervention at Emory Healthcare. He has published over
165 peer-reviewed articles and has been invited over 400 times to give lectures in the
past 10 years. His epidemiological research focuses on health services and outcomes.
He is also a high-volume coronary operator, performing over 400 PCI/year, and a world-
renown chronic total occlusion (CTO) and Complex Higher-risk expert. He is the lead
editor of a textbook on CTO PCI published by Springer in 2015, with the revised edition published in 2022.
He has performed over 1200 CTO PCIs since January 2010, one of the largest volumes in
the world, and pursues very active teaching activities.
