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Author(s): Linda Joosten Added: 2 years ago
ESC 2023 — Dr Linda Joosten (Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, NL) joins us to discuss the findings of the FRAIL-AF trial. FRAIL-AF is a multicentre, open-label randomised controlled clinical trial which studied frail elderly patients who receive vitamin K antagonist (VKA) treatment for atrial fibrillation (AF). Current clinical guidelines recommend non-vitamin K antagonists … View more
Author(s): Renato D Lopes Added: 1 year ago
ESC Congress 24 — AF screening with a wearable ECG device increases diagnosis by over 50% but did not significantly reduce hospitalisation rates for stroke.We are joined onsite at ESC Congress 2024 by Dr Renato Lopes (Duke University Medical Center, NC) to discuss the findings from the GUARD-AF Trial (NCT04126486, Bristol-Myers Squibb), which was designed to determine if screening for undiagnosed… View more
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Prof. Ken Okumura served as a Professor of Medicine at Hirosaki University School of Medicine from 1996 to 2016. He also served as a President of the Japanese Heart Rhythm Society (JHRS) from 2012 to 2016. He is now working at Saiseikai Kumamoto Hospital Cardiovascular Center, Japan, while providing the latest interventional treatments for cardiac arrhythmias especially catheter ablation of AF… View more
Job title: Professor, Principal Investigator, Senior Consultant Physician/Cardiologist
Professor Michael Fu is currently a nucleus member of working group of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, Heart Failure Association, European Society of Cardiology, and an nucleus member of the National Working Group of Heart Failure in Sweden. Michael Fu is an expert in heart failure with research focus on epidemiology, clinical phenotype, prognosis and its risk factors,… View more
Job title: Professor and head of School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine
After graduating in medicine from the University of Adelaide Professor McNeil undertook specialist training to become qualified as a consultant in internal medicine and clinical pharmacology. He completed a PhD in Clinical Pharmacology at Melbourne University and was awarded a National Heart Foundation overseas postgraduate research scholarship to study epidemiology at the London School of… View more
Research Area(s) / Expertise: Job title: Professor of Internal Medicine
A specialist in cardiovascular disease by training, Isabelle Mahé is Professor of Internal Medicine at Paris Cité University, France. She is Head of the Internal Medicine Department at a teaching hospital (Louis Mourier, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Colombes, France), which includes an oncology unit and a cardiovascular disease unit.She is chair of the scientific council for the INNOVTE… View more
Job title: Chief of the Hypertension and Cardiovascular Rehabilitation Unit at the Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, Faculty of Medicine
Research Area(s) / Expertise: Job title: Professor of Medicine
Dr Prakash C Deedwania 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 also serves on the Guideline Committee of Heart… View more