Profile Category: Speakers 2025

Philippe DELREZ Nurse and Tabacologist (RN, CCRN, MPH) Cardiac Intensive Care Past Chair Belgian Working Group on Cardio Vascular Nursing Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc Brussels, Belgium

In May 2021, I joined the Maasstad ICU. Maasstad Ziekenhuis is a top-clinical JCI-accredited community teaching hospital, part of Santeon cooperative association, where I work in a team of 9 staff intensivists (3 anesthesiologists, 3 cardiologists, 2 internists en 1 surgeon), together with junior intensivists, ventilation, circulation & renal practitioners, a research nurse, dedicated ICU...

John Deanfield CBE is Professor of Cardiology at University College London (UCL) and Director of National Institute for Cardiovascular Outcomes Research (NICOR) which incorporates the national databases for cardiovascular outcomes. He Chaired the Joint British Societies (JBS3) National Guidelines for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention (2014) that led to the development of the public facing Heart Age...

Prof. Dr. Werner Budts is an adult congenital cardiologist and the director of the Adult Congenital Heart Disease (ACHD) program at University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium. He is a professor at the Catholic University of Leuven, with a research focus on clinical ACHD and has over 380 peer-reviewed publications. Budts founded the Belgian Working Group on...

Heribert Schunkert, MD is Professor of Cardiology of the Technische Universität München and Director of the Cardiology Department, German Heart Centre Munich since 2012. He completed a research fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, USA and clinical fellowships at Beth Israel Hospital, the Universitätsklinika Aachen and Regensburg, and the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA, before...

I have a Master’s degree in Biomedical Sciences from Leiden University, awarded in 1993, and a PhD in Biotechnology from Ghent University, awarded in 1998.  I have been a lecturer at Ghent University since 2002. I was appointed full professor at the Faculty of Medicine and have been leading the Department of Human Structure and...

Marthe Verhaert is a medical oncologist combining a PhD at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel with clinical activity in AZ Sint-Maria Halle. Her research focuses on toxicity of immunotherapy in cancer.

Karlien Devloo works at the Flemish Institute for Healthy Living as a senior staff member in the field of physical activity. She has dedicated her entire career to supporting, advising, and informing companies and their employees about healthier living at work. Initially, her focus was on exercise within research projects at KU Leuven, later to...

Sofie Brouwers is a cardiologist with a special interest in arterial hypertension, dyslipidemia, rehabilitation and prevention of cardiovascular diseases. She works as a cardiologist and rehabilitation specialist at the Cardiovascular center of the OLV Aalst Clinic, where she leads the hypertension and lipid clinic. Sofie Brouwers is also professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.  She...

Frederik H. Verbrugge is a Cardiologist/Intensive Care physician with dedicated interest in heart failure, (exercise) hemodynamics & cardiorenal physiology. Prof. Dr. Verbrugge graduated as M.D. in 2010 (KU Leuven, Belgium), obtained his Ph.D. in 2015 (Hasselt University, Belgium) & received an M.Sc. in Clinical Trials in 2022 (Oxford University, UK). He is currently employed as...