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Dr. Dejan Milasinovic is an interventional cardiologist at the Department of Cardiology, Clinical Center of Serbia. He is also an Assistant Professor at Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade. His main research interests focus in the fields of the invasive treatment of acute coronary syndromes and complex coronary interventions, with an emphasis on bifurcation PCI and intracoronary guidance. In 2016, Dr. Milasinovic received the EuroPCR 2016 Best Abstract award, for a work on the timing of invasive coronary intervention in patients with non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction. He is a member of European Association of Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions (EAPCI) and has served as program committee member of the annual EuroPCR conference. Dr. Milasinovic also serves on the editorial boards of EuroIntervention (editorial consultant) and PCRonline, and is the Cahir of the Young EAPCI/PCR Journal Club at www.pcronline.com.

Prof Javier Escaned is Head of Interventional Cardiology Section at Hospital Clinico San Carlos (Madrid, Spain). He trained as a cardiologist the United Kingdom before moving to the Thoraxcenter / Rotterdam (The Netherlands), where he obtained his PhD degree in 1994. With over 30 years of experience as interventionalist, he regularly serves as live case operator and educationalist in global events. He is author of over 500 PubMed indexed scientific articles (h-index 74) on topics that include complex PCI in multivessel disease, left main and chronic total occlusions. His track record in coronary physiology includes being investigator on pivotal FFR trials like DEFER (1998), collaborator with Justin Davies in the validation and clinical implementation of iFR (since 2010), and developer of new methods for the assessment of microvascular and non-obstructive coronary disease. Editorial work includes two large textbooks (“Coronary Stenosis. Imaging, Structure and Physiology” and “Physiological Assessment of Coronary Stenoses and the Microcirculation) and editorial board positions in scientific journals. Board positions in scientific societies include EuroPCR, EAPCI, EuroCTO and the ESC Working Group of Coronary Pathophysiology and Microcirculation. Additional interest incllude music and phylosophy. He is a recipient of the ESC Silver Medal and the 2022 ESC Andreas Gruentzig Award.

Dr Justin Davies is founder and CEO of Wondr Medical, inventor of iFR, and clinical academic and consultant interventional cardiologist at the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London.

Dr. Pablo Salinas is Interventional Cardiologist at Hospital Clínico San Carlos in Madrid, Spain. He studied Medicine at Universidad Complutense in Madrid, Spain and was trained in Cardiology and Interventional Cardiology at Hospital La Paz in Madrid, Spain. In 2015 he obtained his PhD degree (cum laude) at the Universidad Autonoma in Madrid. He has developed his professional career in the field of interventional cardiology for over 10 years, and is a skilled operator in complex coronary intervention, chronic occlusions, and stroke prevention therapies such as foramen ovale closure and appendage closure, with regular participation in educational events and live cases. During his research career he has 80+ PubMed indexed publications and is currently the PI of three multicenter studies SUGAR Trial (NCT03321032), REVASEC Registry (NCT03349385), and TROMPA Registry. Also he has been researcher in several investigator initiated, competitive funding research (PI16 / 00840, PIE16 / 00043, PI15 / 00742).