Author(s):
A Bajpai,
A John Camm,
I Savelieva
Added:
3 years ago
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained cardiac arrhythmia and is characterized by unco-ordinated atrial activation with consequent loss of atrial mechanical function. In developed nations, the number of men and women affected by AF is projected to more than double over the next two decades. Despite major advances in its management, AF remains a significant cause of cardiovascular…
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Job title: Interventional Cardiology Fellow
Dr Sree Kondapally is an Interventional Cardiology Fellow at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital in England. He completed his cardiology training in London, including sub-specialty training in PCI. He also holds research degrees from the University of Cambridge, and his academic work centres around cardiovascular epidemiology.
Dr Kondapally has won a number of prizes and honours including:…
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Job title: Professor of Clinical Trials and Epidemiology, and Honorary Consultant in Public Health Medicine
Jane Armitage, FRCP, FFPH, OBE, is Professor of Clinical Trials and Epidemiology and Honorary Consultant in Public Health Medicine and also Director of Training and Career Development for the Nuffield Department of Population Health. She works on the epidemiology of cardiovascular disease and has led large-scale randomized controlled trials.
Dr Armitage is Chief Investigator for the BHF-supported…
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Personal History
Dr Aaron Isaacs is based in the Netherlands, where he works in the Department of Physiology, Cardiovascular Research Institute Maastricht at Maastricht University.
Academic History
Dr Aaron Isaacs completed his baccalaureate degree at the University of California, Berkeley in 1994. In 2002, he moved to the Netherlands, where he embarked on his PhD studies in genetic…
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Job title: Associate Professor – Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact (HEI)
Dr Andrew Mente is a Principal Investigator for the Epidemiology program at the Population Health Research Institute and Associate Professor – Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact (HEI), McMaster University.
Dr Mente received his doctoral degree in Epidemiology from the University of Toronto and completed post-doctoral training in cardiovascular epidemiology at McMaster…
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Job title: Professor at Bispebjerg Hospital, Department of Cardiology, Copenhagen, Denmark
Academic History
Dr Eva Prescott studied at Greve Gymnasium in Greve, Denmark from 1977 to 1980. Later on, she became an MD at the University of Copenhagen, where she studied from 1981 to 1990.
Career Overview
Dr Prescott leads the Centre for Cardiovascular Research at Bispebjerg Frederiksberg University Hospital, Copenhagen. Her main research areas include angina pectoris, cardiac…
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Job title: Professor and Head of Cardiology
Prof Cecilia Linde is a professor and consultant in cardiology at the Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm, Sweden. Her research focuses on epidemiology and devices for use in heart failure.
Her research currently focuses devices and their implementation and epidemiology in heart failure. Cecilia Linde is Vice President of the Board member of the ESC for the period of 2018-2020…
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Job title: Head of the Cardiology Department
Dr Ignacio Ferreira Gonzalez is currently an associate professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and, since 2020, Head of the Cardiology Department at Vall d’Hebron University Hospital, Barcelona, ES.
Between 1997-2022 he trained as a clinical cardiologist at the Vall d’Hebron University Hospital to later complete a four-year training in clinical research methodology and epidemiology…
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Job title: Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Professor and Chair of the residency program
Dr. Pieter Kappetein, MD, PhD, is a Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Professor and Chair of the residency program at the Thoraxcenter at the Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He is board certified in Cardiothoracic Surgery. His specialty is cardiothoracic surgery.
He is Secretary General of the European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery, President of CTSnet and member…
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Job title: Chief, Division of Hematology and Oncology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, US
Alison W. Loren, MD, MSCE serves as the Chief of the Division of Hematology-Oncology at the Perelman School of Medicine. Dr. Loren is the Director of Blood and Marrow Transplant in the Transplant and Cellular Therapy Program of the Abramson Cancer Center, a clinician in hematologic malignancies, and a Professor of Medicine.With an extensive portfolio of over 100 peer-reviewed publications, Dr…
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