Cardiovascular Women’s Summit

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.

Works at ICPS, Générale de santé, Massy, France. Features in 2 videos on Wondr Medical. Marie-Claude Morice generally speaks on Acute Coronary Syndromes (ACS), Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PPCI), Innovation, and Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVR / TAVI).

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. Fisher is an endocrinologist with expertise in the evaluation and treatment of hypertension. She is Director of Hypertension Services and of Hypertension Innovation at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and leads a remote management program at BWH for the treatment of high blood pressure. Dr. Fisher has been engaged in almost three decades of clinical research at Harvard University, focusing on cardiovascular endocrinology. She has conducted dozens of clinical trials at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital’s Clinical Research Center, having served as Principal Investigator on studies funded both by industry and the NIH, with over 20 years of continuous NIH funding. Her areas of research expertise include hypertension; renal denervation; renal vascular hemodynamics; diabetes; endothelial function, and flavanols.

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.

A consultant cardiologist at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, USA. Features in 13 videos on Wondr Medical. Roxana Mehran generally speaks on Anti-Platelet Drugs , Coronary Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT), Intravascular Ultrasound (IVUS), Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy, and Cardiac Valves.

Anna Sonia Petronio is a Professor of Cardiology at the University of Pisa. She has been in this role since 2002. Additionally, since 1993, Prof. Petronio has managed the University of Pisa Cardiothoracic Department Catheterization Laboratory, where she works as interventional cardiologist performing a wide variety of endovascular procedures. During Prof. Petronio’s medical studies she had research internships in London, Verona, San Diego, and New York in various cardiology fields (myocardial biopsy and interpretation, PTCA, coronary stents, aterectomy). Prof. Petronio also has an extensive research background, having participated as a co-investigator or primary investigator in many multicenter national and international clinical trials (e.g. ADVANCE, STARK II, MISTRAL, GUSTO IV-ACS, TOAST, GRANITE, VISION, HELPAMI, ESIRIUS, FINESSE, GISSOCII, ELDERLY, MUSTELA, ACCOST). She has also published more than 260 scientific works in national and international journals as well as for the ACTA Congress. Prof. Petronio is also Chair of the EAPCI DB&R committee, and a member of the ESC EORP committee.

Prof Kunadian is a Professor of Interventional Cardiology holding a Personal Chair at Newcastle University and Honorary Academic Consultant Interventional Cardiologist Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. Prof Kunadian has an international reputation in interventional cardiology and cardiovascular research, making her a sought-after and respected speaker at prominent national and international meetings. She has championed diversity in her specialty as a role model; only 5% of interventional cardiologist are female in the UK, <1% are clinical academics/researchers and only female interventional cardiologist holding a University Personal Chair. She is also recipient of the UK Department of Health National Clinical Excellence Bronze Award. She is UK Chief Investigator in many multicentre clinical trials with major grant awards including from the British Heart Foundation. She has published >180 peer reviewed publications in major journals. She is UK’s 1st female to be appointed as the British Cardiovascular Intervention Society Research and Development Working Group lead. She has been chosen by the British Heart Foundation as their panel member for the Bias and Biology Campaign addressing the disparity of care among female patients with heart disease. She was the Chair/Lead author on the ESC/EAPCI Consensus document on INOCA which has raised the awareness of this condition worldwide. She has campaigned on the national media including the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and newspapers to improve the care of patients with heart disease in particular women and heart disease. She is one of the commissioners on the Lancet Commission to reduce the global burden of heart disease in women by 2030. She was awarded Winner of the UK Times and the Sunday Times We Are The City Rising Star Award for 2018. In 2022 she was nominated for the British Heart Foundation Heart Hero Research Engagement Award. She was also nominated for the 2023 Northern Power Women Awards- Disruptor Good Category.