Dr. Federica Valente is a cardiologist at the Pulmonary Vascular Diseases (PVD) and Heart Failure Clinic in the Department of Cardiology at HUB Erasme Hospital in Brussels, where she has been practicing since 2023. During her cardiology training, she earned several interuniversity diplomas in heart failure, advanced heart failure and transplantation, and cardiac imaging. In...
Dr Demulier graduated as cardiologist in 2008 at Ghent University Hospital with further specialisation in adult congenital heart disease (ACHD), cardiac rehabilitation and echocardiography. He has been a board member of the Belgian working group on adult congenital heart disease (BWGACHD) since several years. He is involved in several multidisciplinary clinics at Ghent University Hospital (Turner team,...
Tom De Potter is a cardiology assistant and PhD researcher with a primary focus on the exposomic risk of ischemic heart disease. He earned his medical degree at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and an interuniversity degree in statistics and epidemiology at Sorbonne University, Paris. His key projects include EMIR, a national study investigating the exposomic...
Jet Peek is a PhD candidate at the department of Cardiothoracic surgery at Erasmus MC, University medical center Rotterdam. Her background is a MSc in Technical Medicine, TU Delft (2021). Her research focuses on the application of Virtual and Augmented Reality technologies (VR/AR/XR) for surgical training, surgical planning, and intraoperative navigation. In addition to her...
Prof. Dr. Emeline Van Craenenbroeck is a clinical cardiologist specialized in heart failure, transplantation, and cardiogenetics at Antwerp University Hospital. She is a professor within the Research Group Cardiovascular Diseases (GENCOR) at the University of Antwerp. Her main clinical and research interests include heart failure, exercise training, and cardiomyopathies. Dr. Van Craenenbroeck has established innovative...
Serge Motte, MD, PhD HUB Hôpital Erasme, Université Libre de Bruxelles Dr Motte qualified as a medical doctor in 1982, went on to complete his post-graduate training in Internal Medicine in 1987, and was awarded his PhD in 1997, all at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. He was from 2002 to 2021 Head of the...
An Van Berendoncks MD, PhD, FESC, is a cardiologist at Antwerp University Hospital, Belgium with main focus on Adult Congenital Heart Disease (ACHD), Cardio-obstetrics and Echocardiography. She coordinates multidisciplinary meetings for ACHD, patients with young stroke and PFO and pregnancy heart team. She is Assistant Professor at the Antwerp University, Research group Cardiovascular Diseases, GENCOR...
Jef Van den Eynde is an Internal Medicine resident and researcher at KU Leuven, Belgium, with a focus on cardiovascular sciences. He developed a passion for research early in his medical studies, gaining expertise in various methodologies at diverse laboratories. In 2021, he was a Research Fellow at Johns Hopkins Hospital, USA. At the age...
Elayne Kelen de Oliveira graduated in Physiotherapy at the University Center of BrasÃlia (UniCEUB) in Brasilia, Brazil, in 2009. Later, in 2017, she obtained her medical degree from the University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Following this, she completed her specialization in Internal Medicine at the same university. Currently, she is a Ph.D....
Dr. Charlotte Van Edom is a researcher at KU/UZ Leuven, combining a clinical training in cardiology with PhD research on haemocompatibility and mechanical circulatory support. She is part of the ESC’s Young ACVC community;
