Evi Kalodiki was born on 1 October 1956 in Larnaca, Cyprus. The daughter of two eminent lawyers, she was educated at Larnaca High School where, among things, she excelled at disc throwing. Proceeding to the University of Athens she studied English literature for four years, gaining an MA before turning to medicine. Eventually she worked in the surgical unit of the university with Panayotis Balas, who was known as the godfather of vascular surgery in Greece. In 1984 she moved to the UK and continued her studies in phlebology at St. Mary’s Hospital, Paddington. At this time she was mentored by the surgeons: Margaret Ghilchik, Hugh Arnold Freeman Dudley, J. H. N. Wolfe and Richard David Rosin. She presented innovative work to the Surgical Research Society with Gerard Stansby and, in the Irvine Laboratory at St.Mary’s, undertook research with Andrew Nicolaides. In 1996 she obtained a PhD from Imperial College in venous diseases. She became co-director of the Josef Pflug vascular laboratory at Ealing Hospital, which was set up by her former mentor Professor George Geroulakos and is now part of the West London Vascular and Interventional Centre. She developed a strong relationship throughout her career with the Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, Illinois, eventually becoming a visiting professor in the departments of pathology and pharmacology and a consultant to their Haemostasis Research Group. In association with other members of the faculty she initiated various national and international research programmes which were to have a profound impact in the years to come. She was secretary of the scientific committee of the International Union of Angiology and participated in the development of their educational and research programmes. Other scientific bodies she worked with included the Southeast Asian Society of Atherosclerosis and Thrombosis and the American Venous Programme. Using air-plethysmography, the simple non-invasive test she pioneered (the discord outcome analysis or DOA) was of great benefit to all patients suffering from venous diseases. The author of numerous scientific publications, she was also the co-editor of five books and a senior editor of *The Journal of Clinical and Applied Thrombosis/Haemostasis*. In 2016 she was awarded the Mauro Bartolo lifetime achievement award signifying her outstanding contribution to the advancement of her chosen field. An ambassador for the understanding of Greek culture in the UK, she was on the board of the Hellenic Society for many years and was a founder member of the society in honour of the Greek poet Giorgos Sarantaris (1908-1941) in Cyprus. She was also involved with many international charities for whom she developed useful contacts all over the world. After a long illness she died on 31 December 2018 aged 62 and was survived by her husband Christopher Lattimer, a fellow vascular surgeon.