Dr. Johanna Jacobs is a resident in Cardiology who recently completed her PhD on risk prediction and modeling of cancer therapy-related cardiotoxicity. She has a special interest in cardio-oncology, heart failure, heart transplantation and cardiogenetics.
Marilies De Kegel graduated as a Master of Science in Nursing from Ghent University. She is now a specialized heart failure nurse at AZ Delta and a member of the Belgian Association of Nurse Specialists (BVVS), where she is part of the education working group. She also serves on the board of the Belgian Heart...
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.
