Michaella Alexandrou

Michaella Alexandrou, MD, joined the MHIF Center for Coronary Artery Disease as the Sens Senior International Scholar in March 2023 from Athens, Greece. She obtained her medical degree from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in 2022. In her role as an MHIF CCAD scholar, Michaella works on various investigator-initiated studies, including REBIRTH, NASA, PROGRESS-CTO, CARE-CTO, PROGRESS Bifurcations, PROGRESS Complications and others.

In 2019, Michaella received the Priscilla M. Clarkson Student Travel Award from the American College of Sports Medicine and presented her work at the organization’s annual meeting in Orlando, Florida. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she took an elective placement at the Pathological Clinic of Sotiria Hospital, Greece’s main hospital for respiratory diseases, answering their call for volunteers. She was also actively involved in a research group studying outcomes of hospitalized COVID-19 patients belonging to racial minorities at Evangelismos Hospital, one of the largest public hospitals in Greece.

As a medical student, Michaella served as an officer of human rights and peace on the Hellenic Medical Students’ International Committee. She also received a Stavros Niarchos Foundation scholarship for a minor in international and European affairs at the American College of Greece in Athens, where she explored her interests in questions related to power, human rights, war and peace.