Dr Steg has been a Professor of Cardiology in Université Paris VII - Denis Diderot, since 1994. He works as interventional cardiologist and is director of the Coronary Care Unit of Centre Hospitalier Bichat-Claude Bernard in Paris, France. He is also director of the research team “Clinical Research in Atherothrombosis”, created in 2008 at INSERM U-698, Hôpital Bichat-Claude Bernard, Paris.

Dr Steg’s research interests are in the field of coronary artery disease. He is involved in studies of intervention in acute myocardial infarction, but has also turned his attention to secondary prevention, long-term risk assessment and management of atherothrombosis. He is member of the Board of the French Society of Cardiology, scientific secretary in charge of the Journées Européennes of the Society and former president of its Thrombosis Working Group. He is a nucleus member of the Thrombosis Working Group of the European Society of Cardiology and chairs the research committee of the Europeans Relations Committee of the European Society of Cardiology. He is a former member of the Institut Universitaire de France, a fellow of the European Society of Cardiology, American College of Cardiology, and American College of Chest Physicians and former chairman of the Public Relations committee of the European Society of Cardiology.

Dr Steg participated in the steering or executive committees of trials such as CAPTIM, GUSTO-V, CHARISMA, OASIS-5 and 6, and was the principal investigator of investigator-driven and industry-sponsored clinical trials and registries. He is co-chair of the GRACE publication committee and co-chair of the REACH Registry executive scientific committee. He was DSMB or CEC member or chair for several large trials. Dr Steg has authored more than 300 articles in peer-reviewed international journals, and is a member of the editorial board for Circulation, Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions, the European Heart Journal, JAMA, and for Theheart.org. He is one of the international editors for Circulation Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes.