Virtual Women Summit Day One

Head of Cardiology Department and Head Division of Medicine at Evercare Hospital, Lahore Pakistan

A director of the interventional cardiology unit at Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain. Features in 4 videos on Wondr Medical. Beatriz Vaquerizo generally speaks on Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVR / TAVI), Stents, Live Cases, and Bifurcation.

Dr Blanche Cupido is a consultant adult cardiologist with a special interest in congenital heart disease, cardiac imaging, valvular heart disease. She graduated from the University of Cape town in 2001 and spent 2 years in Kwazulu Natal, completing her internship and community service. After working in the UK for a year, she returned to Groote Schuur Hospital to complete her physician training in 2009 and her cardiology training in 2013. In 2016, she spent a year doing a post-graduate fellowship in Adult Congenital Heart Disease in Leeds, UK. In 2017, she also completed a certificate in advance heart failure management from the University of Zurich and the European Cardiac Academy. She has returned to Groote Schuur Hospital to establish a dedicated Adult Congenital Heart Disease unit and currently works at Groote Schuur Hospital and the UCT Private Academic Hospital where she is the Head of Echocardiography and the Clinical Lead for Adult Congenital Heart Disease.

A professor of cardiology at University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. Features in 12 videos on Wondr Medical. Isabella Sudano generally speaks on Hypertension, Renal Denervation (RDN), Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVR / TAVI), and Stents.

Cardiologist & chief of department for valvular and congenital heart disease at University Hospital Centre Zagreb, Croatia

Dr Mirvat Alasnag was the first female interventional cardiologist in the Gulf region and represented women on multiple committees. She is currently the Chair of the International Working Group of the ACC Women in Cardiology Committee, a member of the SCAI Board of Trustees and ACC Interventional Leadership Council. She is also the chair of the Interventional Cardiology working group of the Tele-Cardiology Section of the International Society for Telemedicine & eHealth. She is a contributing editor & associate editor for several renowned international journals and societies including Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions, ACCEL, Open Heart, Cardiovascular Revascularization Medicine, and PCROnline. She has served as a peer reviewer for several ACC Guideline Statements.

Dr Colleran is a Consultant interventional cardiologist at Mater Private Hospital Dublin and Cardiovascular Research Institute Dublin. Her specialty interests include general and interventional cardiology. Her areas of expertise include cardiac catheterisation, angioplasty and stenting, quantitative coronary angiography, optical coherence tomography, and coronary physiology. Her specific areas of interest are high-risk patient and lesions subsets undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention, patients at high bleeding risk, antithrombotic therapies in patients undergoing coronary stenting, drug-eluting stent and balloon technologies, myocardial revascularisation failure and structural intervention.