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Angela McInerney is an Interventional Cardiologist at University Hospital Galway, Ireland. Following completion of...
Angela McInerney is an Interventional Cardiologist at University Hospital Galway, Ireland. Following completion of her basic cardiology training in Ireland she was awarded the Brian McGovern Travelling Fellowship grant from the Irish Board for Cardiology Training in 2018 which allowed her to start her interventional fellowship in Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain. Following two years of coronary training including complex PCI, she was awarded an European Society of Cardiology Fellowship Training Grant and completed a further year of structural intervention also in Clínico San Carlos, Madrid. Her specialist interests are in intracoronary imaging, intracoronary physiology, calcium modification techniques and complex PCI. She has been keenly involved in various research projects pertaining to intracoronary physiology and intravascular imaging having authored and co-authored a number of research articles as well as review articles and book chapters on these topics. During her fellowship she also regularly partook in the preparation and delivery of educational courses in Clínico San Carlos and values the educational aspect of her role as a Consultant Interventional Cardiologist.
A director of cath lab at National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Beijing, China. Features in 1 video on Wondr...
A director of cath lab at National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Beijing, China. Features in 1 video on Wondr Medical. Bo Xu generally speaks on Imaging, Intravascular Ultrasound (IVUS), Coronary Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT), Acute Coronary Syndromes (ACS), and Coronary Flow Reserve (CFR).
Dr Breda Hennessey graduated from the Third Faculty of Medicine in Charles University in Prague. Following this, she...
Dr Breda Hennessey graduated from the Third Faculty of Medicine in Charles University in Prague. Following this, she returned to Ireland to complete her general medical and higher specialist cardiology training. In 2019, she was awarded the Brian McGovern Scholarship by the Irish Cardiac Society, and this allowed her to commence her subspecialty training in Interventional Cardiology at Hospital Clínico San Carlos in Madrid. She completed a two-year coronary interventional fellowship, with a focus on intracoronary imaging, invasive physiology and ultra-low dose contrast intervention. Following completion of her coronary training, she undertook a further fellowship in structural intervention, also at Hospital Clínico San Carlos. In addition to her clinical work, she has been involved in various research projects pertaining to ultra-low dose contrast PCI, investigating the impact of new technologies in reducing contrast burden in complex PCI . She has authored and co-authored a number of research articles, book chapters and has contributed to the European association of Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions textbook. During her time at Hospital Clinico San Carlos, she completed a Masters in Interventional Cardiology and is currently undertaking a PHD at the Complutense University of Madrid with a focus in ultra-low dose contrast PCI. Throughout her fellowship, she regularly took part in the preparation and delivery of educational courses, both at Hospital Clinico San Carlos and in collaboration with other tertiary referral centres and international cardiology societies in Spain, the UK and the UAE.
Prof Erick Schampaert is a Professor of Medicine, University of Montreal. He has been Interventional cardiologist,...
Prof Erick Schampaert is a Professor of Medicine, University of Montreal. He has been Interventional cardiologist, Hôpital du Sacré-Cœur de Montreal, since 1997, serving as Head of Division of Cardiology since 2006; Chair, CIUSSS NIM HSCM Cardiovascular Health Program since 2014 and Director of Clinical CV Research unit since 2001. Prof Schampaert’s research is focused mainly on Left Main PCI, Coronary physiology (FFR, iFR, CFR), Coronary imaging (IVUS and OCT), and ACS (STEMI) and platelet functions. Prof Schampaert is a Local PI for more than 75 clinical trials and is an author or co-author of more than 75 manuscripts in journals such as NEJM, Lancet, Circulation, JACC, EHJ.
A medical doctor at Division of Cardiology, University of Turin, Italy. Features in 3 videos on Wondr Medical....
A medical doctor at Division of Cardiology, University of Turin, Italy. Features in 3 videos on Wondr Medical. Fabrizio d'ascenzo generally speaks on Stents, Medical Device, Coronary Intervention: Devices, High Bleeding Risk, and Cardiology: Webinar.
Dr. Hernán Mejía-Rentería is an Interventional Cardiologist at the Department of Cardiology, Hospital Clinico San...
Dr. Hernán Mejía-Rentería is an Interventional Cardiologist at the Department of Cardiology, Hospital Clinico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain. He graduated from the Medical School of Universidad del Valle (Colombia) and underwent specialty training in Cardiology at Hospital Clinico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain. Subsequently, he completed his subspecialty training as Interventional Cardiologist in 2017 at the same institution. Dr. Mejía-Rentería obtained a PhD (Cum Laude) in coronary physiology in 2021 at Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He is a member of European Association of Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions (EAPCI) and has published over 70 indexed scientific articles on coronary physiology, functional angiography, intracoronary imaging techniques and Takotsubo Syndrome, and is author of chapters in different academic textbooks. His main research areas at present include coronary physiology assessment with invasive and angiography derived techniques in patients with coronary artery disease or ischemia with non-obstructive coronary arteries.
Prof Hitoshi Matsuo is currently President of Gifu Heart Center, and Clinical Visiting Professor of Cardiology in...
Prof Hitoshi Matsuo is currently President of Gifu Heart Center, and Clinical Visiting Professor of Cardiology in Aichi Medical University. He graduated from Jichi Medical School in 1986 and completed his residency in Gifu Prefectural Gifu Hospital. In 1987, during his residency period, Prof Hitoshi Matsuo spent one year at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions in Baltimore as a research fellow in the Nuclear Medicine Department under the supervision of Professor Henry N Wagner Jr. From 1988, he returned to Gifu Prefectural Hospital where he dedicated clinical research work on physiology and interventional cardiology using nuclear medicine and pressure wires. He received an annual award of Japanese Society of Nuclear Medicine in 1995 and the Clinical Research Award of Japanese Society of Interventional Cardiology in 2004. Thereafter, he moved to Toyohashi Heart Center as co-director of the catheterization laboratory from 2007 and returned to Gifu as the Director of Cardiovascular Medicine in 2009. Dr Matsuo now participates and contributes to many international multi-center trials including DEFINE-FLAIR, the international multicenter FFRCT registry (ADVANCE registry), 3V-FFR FRIENDS study and FAVOR2 Europe and Japan, DEFINE FLOW study.
Prof Javier Escaned is Head of Section (Interventional Cardiology Section) at Hospital Clinico San Carlos /...
Prof Javier Escaned is Head of Section (Interventional Cardiology Section) at Hospital Clinico San Carlos / Complutense University (Madrid, Spain). He trained in the United Kingdom as Specialist in Cardiology and obtained his PhD in The Netherlands. Author of >600 indexed scientific articles on interventional cardiology, imaging and physiology (h-index 74) and over 30 years of experience as PCI operator, he regularly lectures and performs live cases at major scientific and educational meetings. He is a recipient of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Silver Medal and the Andreas Grüntzig Award for his contributions to the fiedl fo Interventional Cardiology. Main areas of expertise include complex PCI, intracoronary diagnostics and functional coronary angiography. His track record in coronary physiology comprises being investigator on pioneer FFR trials like DEFER (1998), collaborator with Justin Davies in the validation and clinical implementation of iFR, and developer of new tools for the assessment of coronary microcirculation. Editorial roles include Deputy Editor EHJ, Advisory Editor Eurointervention, editor of the textbooks “Coronary Stenosis: Imaging, Structure and Physiology” and “Physiological Assessment of Coronary Stenoses and the Microcirculation". Recent board positions include EAPCI board / Education Committee Chair, ESC WG Coronary Pathophysiology and Microcirculation, EuroCTO Board. Recent trials as Principal Investigator include ADVISE II, DEFINE FLAIR, SYNTAX II, PIONEER IV, Cerebral-Coronary-Connection (C3), DCR4Contrast, INOCA LongCovid and AID ANGIO. Additional interests are philosophy and music.
Prof. Mehilli is the Chief of the First Medical Clinic (Cardiology/Pulmonology/Intensive Medicine) at the Hospital...
Prof. Mehilli is the Chief of the First Medical Clinic (Cardiology/Pulmonology/Intensive Medicine) at the Hospital Landshut-Achdorf and Professor for Cardiology at the Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany. Before her appointment as Clinic Chief in September 2020, she was for 10 years director of the catheterisation laboratories first at the Deutsches Herzzentrum thereafter at the LMU University Clinic in Munich and was responsible for both coronary and structural invasive programs. With more than 6000 PCIs and more than 2000 catheter-based valvular procedures, she is one of the most experienced operators in Germany Prof Mehilli spend nearly 20 years with clinical research, first as co-founder and co-director of the well-known ISAResearch Zentrum, thereafter as leader of the working group Minimal-Invasive Cardiology at the LMU Clinic and Principal Investigator at the German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK) . She has led many national and international multicentre trials and authored a multitude of high-ranking publications with a total impact factor of more than 4000. She is member of various boards and cardiologic societies – AGIK, EAPCI, DGK, ESC, Women-EAPCI as well as associate editor for medical journals as European Heart Journal, Journal American College of Cardiology and EuroIntervention.
Dr Justin Davies is a honorary interventional cardiologist at Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College NHS Trust,...
Dr Justin Davies is a honorary interventional cardiologist at Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College NHS Trust, London. After training at Imperial College, he won a prestigious BHF research fellowship to study arterial haemodynamics. Since then he has continued to work on the development of mathematical algorithms to aid understanding of large artery physiology and to develop new tools to assess arterial disease. The holder of several patents, he has published widely in the field of hypertension, coronary and large artery physiology and is the winner of many national and international awards. He has several international collaborations, and is the developer of iFR and the co-principal investigator of the ADVISE studies, the DEFINE-FLAIR, ORBITA and DEFINE-PCI studies. Justin also has an interest in renal denervation, and has lead the first-in-man studies to evaluate the safety of this technique to patients with chronic systolic heart failure (REACH studies).
Dr. Pinilla-Echeverri is originally from Colombia and received her MD from Universidad de Caldas in Manizales,...
Dr. Pinilla-Echeverri is originally from Colombia and received her MD from Universidad de Caldas in Manizales, Caldas, Colombia. She moved to Spain to complete training in Internal Medicine and Cardiology and then moved to Canada to complete an Interventional Cardiology, non-invasive Cardiac Computed Tomography Angiography imaging and advanced Intracoronary Imaging fellowship at McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada. She also obtained a Master’s Degree in Health Research Methodology from Universidad de Cordoba; and PhD Degree from Universidad Complutense in Madrid, Spain. She actively participates in Acute Coronary Syndrome research at the Population Health Research Institute. Dr. Pinilla-Echeverri is an Associate Professor at the Department of Medicine Division of Cardiology at McMaster University and currently an Interventional Cardiology Staff at Hamilton Health Sciences and Niagara Health. She is the Program Director of the Intravascular Coronary Imaging Fellowship in McMaster University and has trained international interventional cardiologists in Imaging. She is passionate about acute coronary syndrome research and leads educational programs worldwide.
Niels van Royen is an interventional cardiologist and Head of Department of Cardiology at the Radboud University...
Niels van Royen is an interventional cardiologist and Head of Department of Cardiology at the Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He has a background in pre-clinical research and is head of a research group on translational research in repair mechanisms in ischemic heart disease. Also he is principal investigator of several multi-center clinical trials like the TRANSIENT, COACT, REDUCE-MVI and iMODERN. These trials focus on timing of interventional procedures as well as the use of intra-coronary physiology to guide interventional procedures both in stable coronary artery disease as well as acute coronary syndromes.
Dr. Pablo Salinas is Interventional Cardiologist at Hospital Clínico San Carlos in Madrid, Spain. He studied Medicine...
Dr. Pablo Salinas is Interventional Cardiologist at Hospital Clínico San Carlos in Madrid, Spain. He studied Medicine at Universidad Complutense in Madrid, Spain and was trained in Cardiology and Interventional Cardiology at Hospital La Paz in Madrid, Spain. In 2015 he obtained his PhD degree (cum laude) at the Universidad Autonoma in Madrid. He has developed his professional career in the field of interventional cardiology for over 10 years, and is a skilled operator in complex coronary intervention, chronic occlusions, and stroke prevention therapies such as foramen ovale closure and appendage closure, with regular participation in educational events and live cases. During his research career he has 80+ PubMed indexed publications and is currently the PI of three multicenter studies SUGAR Trial (NCT03321032), REVASEC Registry (NCT03349385), and TROMPA Registry. Also he has been researcher in several investigator initiated, competitive funding research (PI16 / 00840, PIE16 / 00043, PI15 / 00742).
Dr Richard A. Shlofmitz, MD, FACC is the Chairman of Cardiology at St. Francis Hospital, The Heart Center®, in...
Dr Richard A. Shlofmitz, MD, FACC is the Chairman of Cardiology at St. Francis Hospital, The Heart Center®, in Roslyn, New York. A pioneer in interventional cardiology, Dr. Shlofmitz has worked to advance the field, with a focus on optimizing outcomes with the development of Precision PCI. He is a founding co-director of the annual Intravascular Imaging and Coronary Physiology Workshop. Performing over 1,000 coronary interventions annually, he has one of the largest volumes of experience in PCI. He has the most clinical experience with orbital atherectomy and OCT world-wide. His clinical research interests focus on optimizing coronary interventions and he serves on multiple scientific advisory boards and clinical trial steering committees to further this mission. Dr Shlofmitz has been one of the largest enrollers for multiple clinical trials, including TWILIGHT, ILUMIEN III, and Onyx, with more than 75 publications in peer-reviewed journals and was first to perform coronary intravascular lithotripsy (IVL) in North America as part of the DISRUPT CAD III trial.
Prof. Byrne graduated from University College Dublin, Ireland and completed his PhD in Medical Life Science and...
Prof. Byrne graduated from University College Dublin, Ireland and completed his PhD in Medical Life Science and Technology at the Technical University Munich, Germany. Research awards received include the ESC Atherothrombosis Research Fellowship (2008), the TCT Thomas J. Linnemeier Young Investigator Award (2009) and the Andreas Grüntzig Research Prize of the German Cardiac Society (2016). Leadership roles include Deputy Editor at EuroIntervention and board member of EAPCI and Chair of its Patient Initiatives Committee.
A cardiologist at McMaster University, Ontario, Canada. Features in 1 video on Wondr Medical. Shamir Mehta generally...
A cardiologist at McMaster University, Ontario, Canada. Features in 1 video on Wondr Medical. Shamir Mehta generally speaks on Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PPCI) and ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI).
Simone Biscaglia has worked as an Interventional Cardiologist at Ferrara University Hospital since 2015. He graduated...
Simone Biscaglia has worked as an Interventional Cardiologist at Ferrara University Hospital since 2015. He graduated from Bologna University School of Medicine and Ferrara University School of Cardiology. He is also a Researcher in the field of coronary physiology, myocardial infarction, frailty, bioresorbable vascular scaffolds, physical activity and neural interfaces. He has 90 articles indexed on Pubmed and is the Principal Investigator of the ongoing international randomised FIRE trial which recently concluded the enrollment of 1400 older MI patients with MVD.