ESC 2018

Adriaan Kraaijeveld is an interventional cardiology at University Medical Centre Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Works at San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Lombardia, Italy. Features in 6 videos on Wondr Medical. Alaide Chieffo generally speaks on Bifurcation, Left Main Stem (LMS), Intravascular Ultrasound (IVUS), Coronary Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT), and Covid-19.

Alex Spyropoulos is a professor of medicine at Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine, NY, USA.

Andrew Mente is a professor of epidemiology at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

Prof Andrew Sharp qualified from Edinburgh Medical School in 1998 and is Professor of Cardiology at the University Hospital of Wales and Cardiff University in the U.K. He conducted his early training at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, before moving to London for his senior clinical training. He completed the prestigious Milan-Imperial Interventional Cardiology Fellowship programme, having spent a year in San Raffaele and Columbus Hospitals, Milan, Italy, under the tutelage of Professor Antonio Colombo. He also spent three years training in interventional cardiology at Imperial College Hospitals in London. Prof Sharp was awarded an MD postgraduate research degree from the University of Edinburgh for his work on the hypertensive heart and his research interests include intracoronary imaging and physiology. as well as the use of device-based treatments for hypertension and pulmonary embolism.

Bjarne Linde Norgaard is a cardiology at Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark.

Branislav Milovanovic is a cardiology at University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia.

A professor of medicine at Duke NUS Medical School. Singapore. Features in 3 videos on Wondr Medical. Carolyn Lam generally speaks on Chronic Heart Failure, Renal Failure and Cardiovascular Disease, Diabetes and the Heart, Sodium-Glucose Co-Transporter 2 (SGLT2), and Stable Coronary Artery Disease (CAD).

Charalambos Antoniades is a cardiology at John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford University, Oxford, UK.

David Newby is a professor of cardiology at Royal Infirmary Hospital of Edinburgh (NHS Lothian), The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom.

Works at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Newton, MA, USA. Features in 2 videos on Wondr Medical. Deepak Bhatt generally speaks on Acute Coronary Syndromes (ACS), Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PPCI), Innovation, Coronary Interventions, and Interventional Cardiology Review.

Elmir Omerovic is a cardiologist at University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Erin Bohula is a cardiology at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.

Friedrich Koehler is a professor of cardiology at Charite Hospital, Berlin, Germany.

Gilles Rioufol works at Hospices Civils de Lyon and Claude Bernard University, INSERM U1060 (CARMEN), Lyon, France.

Professor Giuseppe Tarantini is an Associate Professor and interventional cardiologist at University of Padua, Italy. Since 2016, he Director of the Interventional Cardiology Unit at the Department of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences of Padua University, performing both coronary and structural interventional cardiology procedures. He has promoted more than 50 observational registries and clinical trials and published more than 390 original papers. He is also President of the Italian Society of Interventional Cardiology–GISE and a member of the leading International Cardiology societies.

Gregory YH Lip is a professor of medicine at University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.

Harriett Van Spall is a cardiology at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

Jacob Eifer Moller is a cardiology at Odense University Hospital, Odense C, Denmark.

A consultant cardiologist at Vancouver General Hospital (VGH), Vancouver, Canada. Features in 4 videos on Wondr Medical. Jacqueline Saw generally speaks on Stroke: LAA and LAA closure, PFO/ASD (Closure), Stroke: Persistent Foramen Ovale and PFO closure, PFO/ASD, and Imaging.

Jane Armitage is a professor of epidemiology at John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford University, Oxford, UK.

A professor of medicine at Stony Brook University Hospital, New York, USA. Features in 1 video on Wondr Medical. Javed Butler generally speaks on Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFPEF).

Jessica Spence is a consultant anaesthetist at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

Jolien Roos-Hesselink is a cardiology at Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.

Joost Daemen is an interventional cardiology at Thorax Centre Erasmus MS, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Kausik Ray is a professor of public health at Imperial College, London, UK.

Louise Bowman is a professor of medicine at John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford University, Oxford, UK.

Lowell Satler works at MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, District of Columbia, USA.

Mandeep Mehra is a consultant cardiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.

Marco Valgimigli is a consultant cardiologist at The University Hospital of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy.

Mathias Meine is a cardiology at University Medical Centre Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Michala Sejr is a cardiology at Institut for Klinisk Medicin, Herning, DK.

Michele Brignole is a cardiology at Osped-ali Tigullio in Lavagna, Genoa, IT.

Nicolas Meneveau is a professor of cardiology at Hopital Universitaire Jean Minjoz - BESANÇON, France.

Nicolas Van Mieghem is the Clinical Director of Interventional Cardiology and Professor of Interventional Cardiology at the Thoraxcenter, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam. He obtained his medical degree and cardiology degree at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. After subsequent Fellowships in interventional cardiology in at Ziekenhuis Oost-Limburg Genk, Belgium, Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, United States and Thoraxcenter, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, he joined the senior staff of the department of interventional cardiology in the Thoraxcenter in February 2010. Professor Van Mieghem’s academic interest is in complex (calcified) coronary lesions, mechanical circulatory support and structural heart interventions. He obtained a PhD based upon his research in transcatheter valve therapies. Professor Van Mieghem is involved in the percutaneous coronary interventions and structural heart program. Professor Van Mieghem has published and co-authored over 400 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals. He is principle investigator and steering committee member in multiple ongoing international trials evaluating various coronary and transcatheter valve technologies. He is a Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology and the American College of Cardiology.

Prof Patrick W. Serruys with respected h-index – 183 is a professor of Interventional Cardiology at the Interuniversity Cardiological Institute of the Netherlands (1988-1998) and Erasmus MC. Since 1980 he was a Director of the Clinical Research Program of the Catheterization Laboratory, Thorax Center at Erasmus University, and till April 1, 2014 (retirement date) the Head of the Interventional Department, Thorax Center, Erasmus MC (University Medical Center Rotterdam), Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Since April 2013, he holds the position of Professor of Cardiology in the Cardiovascular Science Division of the National Heart and Lung Institute (NHLI) at the Faculty of Medicine, within the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London.He is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology and a Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology and scientific council of the International College of Angiology.In 1996, he received the TCT Career Achievement Award and in 1997 he was awarded the Wenkebach Prize of the Dutch Heart Foundation. In 2000, he was awarded the Gruentzig Award of the European Society of Cardiology. In 2001, he held the Paul Dudley White Lecture at the American Heart Association in the USA. In 2004, he received the Andreas Gruentzig Award of the Swiss Society of Cardiology. In 2005, he held the 4th International Lecture at the AHA and Mikamo Lecture at the Japanese heart Association. In 2006, he received the highest award of the Clinical Council of the American Heart Association: the James Herrick Award. In 2007, he received the Arrigo Recordati International Prize (Italy) and the ICI Achievement Award (bestowed by the President of Israel – Shimon Perez). In 2008, he received the Einthoven Penning (Leiden). In 2009, he became Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Athens. In 2011, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award, bestowed by the American College of Cardiology, in recognition of many years of service and invaluable contributions to the ACC. At the end of 2011, Prof Serruys received the Ray C. Fish Award, bestowed by the Texas Heart Institute, for outstanding achievement and contribution to cardiovascular medicine. In 2012, he received a Golden Medal of the European Society of Cardiology. In 2013, he became Doctor Honoris Causa from the Complutense University of Madrid. In 2016, he became Doctor Honoris Causa of the Melbourne University, Australia. Currently he is established Professor of Interventional Medicine and Innovation at the National University of Ireland, Galway.

Peter Jakobsson Ueda is a research fellow at Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.

Philip J Devereaux is a cardiology at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

Philipp Fischer is a general manager, cardiology at Siemens.

Prakash C Deedwania, MD, FACC, FACP, FAHA, is Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine. He is Chief of the Cardiology Division and the Director of Cardiovascular Research for VACCHCS/ UCSF Medical Education Program, Fresno and also a Clinical Professor of Medicine at Stanford University, Palo Alto. Dr Deedwania was actively involved in several landmark clinical trials, including ELITE-I, ELITE-II, RALES, VANQWISH, HIT, Val-HeFT III, BEST, MERIT-HF, VALIANT, CHARM, EPHESUS, and TNT. He has served on the study section of NHLBI, and was a member of the parent committee for National Institutes of Health (NIH) SCORE projects on ischemic heart disease (IHD), heart failure (HF), and sudden death. Dr Deedwania is currently a member of the American College of Cardiology (ACC)/American Heart Association (AHA) Guideline Committees on Ambulatory ECG and Chronic Stable Angina. He also serves on the Guideline Committee of Heart Failure Society of America. He is chairman of the International Steering Committee for the Study Assessing Goals in the Elderly (SAGE) and past-president of the International Society of Holter Monitoring and Noninvasive Cardiology (ISHNE). Dr Deedwania has also served on the AHA Program Committee for the Annual Scientific Sessions. He is President of the California Chapter of American Society of Hypertension. He has authored or co-authored more than 350 articles in referred medical journals including leading journals such as NEJM, JAMA, Lancet, Circulation and Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

Prof. Stefan Anker is Professor of Tissue Homeostasis in Cardiology & Metabolism at Charité Berlin. Previously, he was Professor of Innovative Clinical Trials at University Medical Center Göttingen in Germany. Dr. Anker has authored more than 1,000 articles and was named Highly Cited Researcher 2015–2020.

Raban Jeger is an interventional cardiology at University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.

Raffi Bekeredjian is a professor of cardiology at Robert-Bosch Hospital, Stuttgart, Germany.

Ralf Westenfield is a cardiology at University Hospital, Düsseldorf, Germany.

Raymond Kwong is a cardiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.

Ron Waksman, MD, FACC, Associate Director, Division of Cardiology, MedStar Washington Hospital Center (MWHC) and Director of Cardiovascular Research and Advanced Education for the MedStar Heart and Vascular Institute at the MedStar Washington Hospital Center. With nearly 20 years of experience in leading edge medical technologies, Dr. Waksman is a world-renowned interventional cardiologist and is a highly sought after Principal Investigator for pre-clinical and clinical studies conducted in the United States and abroad. Dr Waksman has performed over 5000 coronary interventions throughout his career.

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.

Ted Feldman works at Evanston Hospital,Evanston, Illinois, USA.

Thomas Engstrøm is a professor and senior consultant in the Department of Invasive Cardiology at The Heart Center, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Denmark where he has performed percutaneous coronary interventions for more than 15 years. In addition, working with leading a Rigshospitalet research group, he has led steering committees in several international clinical trials and been the main investigator in major trials. His main research interests include myocardial protection in ischemic heart disease with special reference to reperfusion injury, percutaneous assist devices in cardiogenic shock, the significance of pressure-derived strategies in percutaneous coronary interventions and magnetic resonance techniques in acute myocardial infarction.

Thomas Pilgrim works at University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.

Timothy Fairbairn is a consultant cardiologist at Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital, Liverpool, UK.

Works at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY, USA. Features in 1 video on Wondr Medical. Valentin Fuster generally speaks on Atrial Fibrillation and Electrophysiology.

Wijnand Stuijfzand is a cardiology at Weill Medical College of Cornell Univeristy, New York, NY, USA.