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Dr Breda Hennessey is an interventional cardiology fellow at Hospital Clínico San Carlos. She Graduated from the Third Faculty of Medicine in Charles University in Prague. Following this ,she returned to Ireland in 2011. She completed her Internal Medicine training in 2014 and General Cardiology training in 2019 through the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland. She was awarded the Brian McGovern Scholarship by the Irish Cardiac Society in 2019 and commenced her clinical and research fellowship at Hospital Clínico San Carlos last November. She Is currently working as an assistant PI in the ongoing DCR4 contrast study, a multicentred prospective randomised study, investigating the impact of new technologies in reducing contrast burden in complex PCI . She is also involved with the complex PCI subset, including the CTO programme at Hospital Clínico San Carlos.

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 Javier Goicolea is chief of Interventional Cardiology at Hospital Puerta de Hierro/Majadahonda in Madrid, Spain. He has a long-standing implication in coronary interventions, has codirected the AHO workshop on CTO recanalization for more than 10 years and inspired the CTO Iberian registry. He is also Codirector the CSC Congress on interventional Cardiology and presided the Spanish Society in Interventional Cardiology.

An interventional cardiologist at Clinical and Provincial Hospital of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. Features in 8 videos on Wondr Medical. Manel Sabaté generally speaks on Coronary Interventions and Chronic Total Occlusion (CTO).