Bernhard Meier has served from 1992 to his retirement in 2015 as full Professor of Cardiology and Chairman of the Department of Cardiology at the Swiss Cardiovascular Center Bern of the University of Bern, Switzerland. Since 2016, he served as a Senior Consultant. He has personally performed thousands of coronary angioplasties, starting with assisting on the world’s first case in 1977, and other catheter-based cardiac procedures. He implanted the world’s first dedicated PFO occluder in 1997.