Clinical Trial Updates

A consultant cadiologist at Clinique Pasteur, European excellence center for Hypertension, Toulouse, France. Features in 35 videos on Wondr Medical. Atul Pathak generally speaks on Hypertension and Renal Denervation (RDN).

Dr. David E. Kandzari is the Chief of the Piedmont Heart Institute and Cardiovascular Service Line; Director, Interventional Cardiology of the Piedmont Heart Institute; and Chief Scientific Officer for Piedmont Healthcare in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Kandzari specializes in cardiovascular disease, peripheral arterial disease and interventional cardiology. A graduate of Duke University School of Medicine, he completed his internship and residency at The John Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. Following his residency, he completed his general and interventional cardiology fellowship at Duke University where he joined the faculty as the John B. Simpson Assistant Professor of Interventional Cardiology and Genomic Sciences. Dr. Kandzari is the former Director of Interventional Cardiology Research at the Scripps Clinic in La Jolla, California. Before joining the Scripps faculty, he also served as Chief Medical Officer for the Cordis Corporation, a Johnson & Johnson Company. He has also served as a Medical Officer for the Center for Devices and Radiological Health for the United States Food and Drug Administration. Board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and its subspecialty Board of Cardiovascular Disease and Board of Interventional Cardiology, Dr. Kandzari has held national and international leadership roles in clinical trials in cardiovascular disease and has participated in national and international program committees in cardiology. He has authored and coauthored more than 400 studies, book chapters and scientific reviews, and has delivered more than 700 lectures, both nationally and internationally, on a variety of issues related to both interventional and general cardiology. Dr. Kandzari has been consecutively voted as one of Atlanta's Top Doctors by Atlanta Magazine from 2011 to 2021, and is peer-nominated in the top 1% of cardiologists by U.S News and World Report.

Professor Felix Mahfoud is an Associate Professor and senior physician of Internal Medicine and Cardiology at Saarland University Hospital, and Affiliate/Visiting Professor Harvard-MIT Biomedical Engineering, Institute of Medical Engineering and Science, Cambridge, US. Professor Mahfoud completed training in Cardiology and Interventional Cardiology at the Department for Internal Medicine III, Saarland University Hospital, Germany in 2014. Since 2017, he has served as Vice Chairman of the ‘Working Group on Interventional Hypertension Treatment’ for the European Society of Hypertension, and as a Committee Member of the 2018 Hypertension Guidelines.

Prof. Dr. Weil is Director of the Cardiovascular center at the Sana Clinic in Lübeck. His clinical focus is interventional therapy of coronary artery disease and arterial hypertension including renal denervation as well chronic heart failure

A consultant cardiologist at Hospital Clinico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain. Features in 31 videos on Wondr Medical. Jose Antonio Garcia Donaire generally speaks on Hypertension and Renal Denervation (RDN).

Dr. Tsioufis, Professor of Cardiology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Director of the Hypertension Unit, 1st Cardiology Clinic, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece. Interventional Cardiologist and Hypertension Specialist.

Professor Melvin Lobo is a Consultant Cardiovascular Physician based in St Bartholomew’s Heart Hospital and the William Harvey Research Institute. He has a specialist interest in blood pressure disorders of all types, autonomic control of the circulation and also resistant hypertension and device-based therapies thereof. He is an accredited Clinical Hypertension Specialist of the European Society of Hypertension (ESH) and British Hypertension Society. Professor Lobo is Director of the Bart's Blood Pressure Clinic which is a Hypertension Centre of Excellence and receives referrals of complex hypertensive patients on a national/international basis and has contributed to several landmark studies in hypertension. His research work has been featured on television and in the national press on numerous occasions (see website for details). In addition to hypertension, he is also an acknowledged expert in the management of low blood pressure (hypotension) and BP variability disorders and PoTS (postural tachycardia syndrome) and sees patients on a national basis with these issues in the Barts BP Clinic and on an international basis in his private practice. He has the largest cohort of medication intolerant patients nationally and has evolved, published and lectured on special strategies with liquid and patch formulations of antihypertensives to get around intolerances to tablets. He is recognised globally as a key opinion leader in his field and this is reflected in key roles in multicentre clinical trials, invited lectures at major conferences and also as an editor/reviewer of numerous journals including JACC and Lancet. More recently he has authored national and co-authored international guidelines for device therapy of hypertension which were published in the prestigious European Heart Journal. He organises and co-chairs the UK Annual Symposia on Renal Denervation with a distinguished panel of international authorities in hypertension medicine. He is a specialist adviser to NICE and the European Society of Hypertension on interventional therapies in hypertension and a member of the Council on Hypertension of the European Society of Cardiology.

Dr Böhm is Director of the Klinik für Innere Medizin III and Chief of Cardiology at the University of the Saarland in Homburg/Saar in Germany. He has been the principal investigator in several international multicenter studies.

Features in 1 video on Wondr Medical. Michel Burnier generally speaks on Hypertension and Renal Denervation (RDN).

At present, Pedro's main fields of expertise are: -Structural heart intervention (Tavi and Mitraclip) -Coronary Bifurcation lesions -Cardiac CT -Renal denervation

Professor of Internal Medicine, Nephrology and Hypertension, Head of the Clinical Research Centre and Vice Chair of the Department of Nephrology and Hypertension