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...
Sabine Coulon graduated from UCL in Physical Education and Physiotherapy-Rehabilitation. Since 1994, she has been working at Clinique Saint-Pierre in Ottignies, where, after ten years in the pulmonology department, she joined the cardiology department to focus on cardiac rehabilitation and certain technical procedures. She also manages the paramedical team and has been a board member...
Dr. Simon Calle recently started as a clinical cardiologist at UZ Gent. He has a passion for echocardiography, and in 2024, he obtained his doctorate with a dissertation on the cardiac conduction disorder ‘left bundle branch block’, which won him the Jacqueline Bernheim Prize. He is currently pursuing additional training in heart failure and heart...
Dr. Jan Van der Heyden studeerde geneeskunde aan de Universiteit Gent en behaalde zijn diploma als cardioloog in 2004 aan de Universiteit Antwerpen. Nadien verrichtte hij in het kader van zijn opleiding tot interventiecardioloog gedurende 3 jaar een fellowship in het St. Antonius Ziekenhuis in Nieuwegein, Nederland. In dit ziekenhuis zette hij zijn loopbaan als...
