Coronary Physiology post-PCI

Carlos Collet Bortone completed his education as interventional cardiologist at the Dante Pazzanese Institute of Cardiology in Sao Paulo, Brazil in 2011 with training in cardiac computed tomography angiography at the Holy Cross Hospital, Florida, USA. Dr. Collet Bortone continued his education with a doctorate in Cardiovascular Sciences at the University of Amsterdam with his Ph.D. thesis focused on the expansion of the current indication of cardiac CT to patients with complex coronary artery disease. Currently practices as interventional cardiologist at OLV-Aalst, Belgium. Dr. Collet Bortone has published more than 80 peer review articles and his research focused on the integration of cardiac imaging and physiology.

Dr. Ozan Demir is a Structural and Interventional Cardiology Fellow at Hammersmith Hospital London. He recently completed post as Clinical Research Fellow at St Thomas’ Hospital and King’s College London, where he is undertook a PhD in coronary physiology under the supervision of Professor Divaka Perera. He studied Medicine at King’s College London and trained in London prior to undertaking Interventional Cardiology Fellowships at Hammersmith Hospital, London and San Raffaele, Milano. During his Fellowship in Milano, under the supervision of Professor Antonio Colombo and Professor Azeem Latib, he undertook an MSc in Interventional Cardiology at the Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele. He is currently involved in various clinical research studies on cardiovascular physiology.

Asst. Prof. Pawel Gasior is an interventional cardiology fellow in Division of Cardiology and Structural Heart Diseases, Medical University of Silesia in Poland. He is a Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology and the currently act as co-chair of the EAPCI New Initiatives for Young Interventionalists Committee. Following graduation from Medical University of Silesia he undertook research fellowship at Cardiovascular Research Foundation in New York under supervision of Dr. Juan Granada. Besides clinical medicine, he is also engaged in both clinical and preclinical research on intravascular imaging, new intravascular technologies, coronary physiology and coronary artery disease.