ESC 2020

Andreas Baumbach is Chair of Device Innovation and Consultant Interventional Cardiologist at the Barts Heart Centre and Queen Mary University of London. He is active in coronary and structural intervention, and has published extensively in the field of interventional research covering preclinical, first in man, pivotal and post market studies. He has an interest in device innovation and regulatory pathways. Professor Baumbach has a strong commitment to training and education. He is on the board of directors of the largest interventional congress EuroPCR and PCR London Valves. He is the Immediate Past President of the European Association of Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions (EAPCI).

Professor Holger Thiele is the Medical Director of the Department of Internal Medicine/Cardiology at the Heart Center Leipzig and full professor of cardiology at University of Leipzig. His main research interests are acute myocardial infarction, acute heart failure, cardiogenic shock, mechanical circulatory support, acute cardiovascular care, interventional cardiology and structural heart disease. He has published over 600 articles in international scientific journals and he is also renowned for having received multiple awards from the German Society of Cardiology and other organisations.

ESC Immediate Past-President (2018 – 2020), Jeroen Bax is Director of non-invasive imaging and Director of the echo-lab at the Leiden University Medical Center. His main interests include clinical cardiology, heart failure, cardiac resynchronization therapy and the application of all different imaging modalities to these clinical fields. Professor Bax has authored numerous papers and holds several positions in national and international scientific organizations, as well as serving on the editorial boards of many different journals.

Dr Jur ten Berg is the Director of the Cardiology Training Program and Head of the St Antonius Center for Platelet Function Studies, at the St Antonius Hospital, the Nether-lands. Dr ten Berg received his medical degree from the University of Utrecht, the Nether-lands before taking up a residency in cardiology at St Antonius Hospital. He did his PhD at the University of Nijmegen on Oral Anticoagulation in Percutanous Coronary Inter-vention (promotor Prof Verheugt). He recently read for Master of Science in Health Economics at the London School of Economics, the UK. His areas of expertise are acute coronary syndrome, antithrombotic treatment and interventional cardiology. He has published around 350 peer-reviewed publications (Pubmed). He is actively involved in research projects in the fields of antiplatelet therapy, PCI, TA-VI, anticoagulation, stent thrombosis, pharmacogenetics, pre-hospital triage of patients with non-ST-elevation ACS and long-term follow up of aortic valve surgery. He is the PI of several trials amongst them the WOEST, POPular, POPular genetics, POPular TAVI, POPular CABG, POPular age.

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.

Ronald K. Binder MD is the head of Cardiology and Intensive Care at the University Teaching Hospital Wels in Austria. As an interventional cardiologist, he specialised in structural heart disease interventions including TAVI and LAA closure, which he is proctoring. His previous working places are the University of Zurich, Switzerland, the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, and the University of Bern, Switzerland. After graduating from medical school at the University of Vienna, Austria, he started his scientific career at the University of Tübingen, Germany. Dr. Binder has published extensive work on TAVI including various first in man trials as well as studies on LAA closure, intravascular imaging and clinical research on percutaneous cardiovascular interventions.