Sarah Hoedemakers is a Cardiology trainee at University Hospital Brussels. She performed research on exercise physiology in aortic valve stenosis during her joint PhD at Jessa Hospital/Hasselt University and University Hospital Brussels/Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
Prof. Dr. Nicolas Baeyens is a physiology and cardiovascular biomechanics professor and the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology director at the Faculty of Medicine of the Université libre de Bruxelles. His research interests revolve around mechanical homeostasis and include tissue repair, cardiovascular remodeling, and extracorporeal circulation.
Dr. Samuel Max, BM BCh (Oxon), blends his expertise in engineering with his medical proficiency as a physician and PhD candidate at Leiden University Medical Center’s Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery. Having graduated from the Universities of Surrey, Utrecht, and Oxford where he achieved prizes as first in his cohort at each institution, he is now...
Professor Corinne Frere, Sorbonne Université & Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France Corinne Frere is Professor of Hematology at Sorbonne University, Paris, France. Her main research interests include the management of antithrombotic therapy in patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS), cancer-associated venous thromboembolism (VTE), and the perioperative management of anticoagulation, coagulopathy, and bleeding in...
Professor of Medicine at the Katholieke Universiteit and Chair of Endocrinology at the University Hospital Gasthuisberg Leuven, Belgium Chantal Mathieu is a physician-scientist who has contributed to the field of diabetes and endocrinology through basic and clinical research. Her basic research work focuses on pathogenesis and prevention of type 1 diabetes. Prof. Mathieu’s clinical work...
Prof. Bernhard Gerber is a clinical cardiologist working in the Cliniques Universitaires Saint Luc and is Professor of Cardiology in the Université Catholique de Louvain. He is specialized in multimodality cardiac imaging, cardiomyopathies and heart failure. Prof. Gerber currently serves as the President of the Belgian Society of Cardiology and as Editor-in-Chief of the European...
Klaus Parhofer is a Professor of Metabolism and Endocrinology at the Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany, a position he has held since 2003. Professor Parhofer obtained his Medical Degree at the University of Munich, Germany, (1987) and pursued his postgraduate specialization in Internal Medicine (1995), Endocrinology and Metabolism (1998) and in Intensive Care Medicine (2001)....
Dr Cecilia Linde is a clinical cardiologist , the President elect of the ESC and Professor of Cardiology of Karolinska Institutet and with research interest in devices in heart failure and heart failure epidemiology.
Associate professor Raluca Elena Dulgheru University Hospital Liège University of Liège Heart Valve and Cardiomyopathy Clinic Was trained at the University Emergency Hospital Bucharest, earned a scholarship of the Romanian Society of Cardiology to get training in valvular heart disease in University Hospital Liège, finished her PhD thesis on “Risk stratification in asymptomatic aortic stenosis”...
Philippe van de Borne is a medical professional who earned his MD degree with top honors at the ‘Université Libre de Bruxelles’ in 1988 and completed his Cardiology training, culminating in a PhD in Cardiology in 1994. His doctoral thesis focused on blood pressure and heart rate variability. He spent 1994 to 1996 as a...
