Guido Claessen

- Clinical cardiologist with focus on sports cardiology at University Hospitals Leuven
- Assistant professor at KU Leuven, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences
- Honorary Researcher at the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute
- Chairman of the Medical Committee of Belgian Cycling
- Nucleus Member of the EAPC Sports Cardiology Section
- Board Member of the Belgian Working Group of Non-invasive Cardiac Imaging

His research focuses on the effects of endurance exercise on the human heart and the integration of exercise evaluation into the management of patients with cardiovascular disease. He is (co-) author of 83 scientific publications indexed in Web of Science (h-index 20). Guido has presented more than 20 abstracts at international scientific meetings as first author and is regularly invited as faculty speaker at several international meetings. He has written invited reviews and editorials in JACC Imaging, The Journal of Physiology and other high impact journals and given multiple plenary lectures on athlete’s heart at the European Society of Cardiology annual congresses.