ACC.24: Late-Breaking Science Video Collection

Published: 06 April 2024

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Overview

Our recurring review series, View from the Thoraxcenter, hosted by Prof Nicolas Van Mieghem and Dr Joost Daemen (Thoraxcentre, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, NL) offers a thorough examination of late-breaking and featured scientific findings, highlighting significant data.

 

To delve deeper into the pivotal clinical trial data unveiled at ACC 24, Dr Harriette Van Spall (McMaster University, Hamilton, CA) conducts interviews with the principal investigators as part of her Late-Breaker Discussion Series.

 

For brief and focused coverage of the essential data unveiled, our accessible Expert Interviews were conducted with a select group of faculty members, concentrating on the results, relevance, and implications for future research.

 

Watch our Behind the Heart series to learn more the personal perspectives from the investigators behind top trials in cardiovascular science.

More from this programme

Part 1

View from the Thoraxcenter

In these concise episodes of View from the Thoraxcenter, Prof Nicolas Van Mieghem and Dr Joost Daemen (Thoraxcentre, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, NL) offer their thoughts on the top late-breaking trials that will be presented at ACC.24. 

Part 2

Late-Breaker Discussion Series

Part 5

Behind the Heart

Watch our Behind the Heart series to learn more the personal perspectives from the investigators behind top trials in cardiovascular science.

About the episode

What’s hot at ACC.24? Join interventional experts, Prof Nicolas Van Mieghem and Dr Joost Daemen (Thoraxcenter, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, NL) to learn more about this year’s key late-breaking and featured science trials that have the potential to shape practice and research. This preview episode of View from the Thoraxcenter offers a critical analysis of 13 of the most anticipated trials of ACC.24, highlighting their context and relevance for practice.

Faculty Biographies

Nicolas M Van Mieghem

Nicolas M Van Mieghem

Medical Director

Prof Nicolas Maria Van Mieghem is an Interventional cardiologist at Thoraxcenter, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, NL decided to pursue a career that would help others. “I enjoy the feeling of being able to help someone or do something important for them". His father was a general cardiologist and one of his biggest influences early in his career.

Prof Van Mieghem initially intended to train as a cardiac surgeon but decided to specialise in interventional cardiology instead, following advice from a mentor. This decision was cemented when he read the first-in-human case report of transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) in Circulation by Alain Cribier in 2002. Prof Van Mieghem believes that great cardiologist genuinely cares for their patients. He names Gary Roubin, Dr Manu Malbrain and Professor Patrick Serruys among his mentors. 

His current research focuses on cerebral embolic protection during TAVI and the search for improved…

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Joost Daemen

Joost Daemen

Interventional Cardiologist

Dr Joost Daemen, MD, PhD is a senior interventional cardiologist at the Thorax Center, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, NL. Dr Daemen obtained his degree in medicine at the Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam in 2005 and did 2 years of internal medicine training and 4 years of general cardiology training at the Thoraxcenter, Rotterdam. 

Dr Daemen is actively involved in several drug-eluting stent trials and is Principal Investigator of four trials focusing on the safety and efficacy of renal sympathetic denervation in hypertension, heart failure, vasospastic angina and heart failure. Dr Daemen is a member of the editorial board of EuroIntervention and the Netherlands Heart Journal, member of Young ICIN, and has completed courses in biomedical statistics and device training.

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