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National Heart Failure Societies & Working Groups

 

Is your NHFS or WG not included on this list?

Please email the information below to the HFA so we can add your society or group.

  • The President's name
  • The President's email address
  • Dates of their term
  • Any other useful information
  • When the heart failure meeting is held
  • Dedicated website/webpage URL
HFA Summit

Each year, the Heart Failure Association invites presidents to join the HFA Summit, a day dedicated to discussing heart failure management in their respective countries and across Europe.

More info

Heart Failure Awareness Days

Every year, more than 25 countries promote awareness about heart failure through various activities such as TV programmes, newspaper articles, open clinics, parliamentary debates, cycling events, walks, children's art contests, and more.

 More info

Albania

  • President: Artan Goda

Website

Armenia

  • President: Hamayak Sisakian
  • Dates of term: November 2019 – November 2023

Austria

  • President: Peter Rainer
  • Dates of term: 1 January 2022 – 1 January 2024

Website

Azerbaijan

  • President: Aysel Islamli

Belarus*

* The Belorussian National Heart Failure Society and Working Group is temporarily suspended from  membership in the ESC. See ESC statement

  • President: Alena Kurlianskaya

Website

Belgium

  • President: Matthias Dupont
  • Dates of term: April 2022 - April 2024

Website

Bosnia & Herzegovina

  • President: Larisa Dizdarevic-Hudic 

Website

Bulgaria

  • President: Plamen Gatzov

Website 

Canada

  • President: Anique Ducharme

Website

Croatia

  • President: Duska Glavas

Website

Cyprus

  • President: Vassilis Barberis
  • Dates of term: October 2022 - October 2024

Website

Czech Republic

  • President: Filip Malek 

Website

Denmark

  • President: Morten Schou
  • Dates of term: May 2021 - May 2023

Website

Egypt

  • President: Magdy Abdelhamid

Website

Estonia

  • President: Tiina Uuetoa

Website

Finland

  • President: Johan Paul Eric Lassus

Website

France

  • President: Emmanuelle Berthelot

Website

Georgia

  • President: Zviad Kipiani

Germany

  • President: Philip Raake
  • Dates of term: September 2021 – September 2023

Greece 

  • President: Argyrios Ntalianis
  • Dates of term: October 2022 – October 2024

Website

Hungary

  • President: Attila Borbely
  • Dates of term: April 2023 - April 2025

Website

Iceland

  • President:  Thordis Jona Hrafnkelsdottir
  • Dates of term: May 2022 - May 2024

Website

Ireland

  • President: Pascal P. McKeown

Website

Israel

  • President: Avishay Grupper
  • Dates of term: October 2021 - September 2024

Website

Italy

Italian Heart Failure Association (ITAHFA)

  • President: Maurizio Volterrani

Website

Italian society of cardiology (SIC)

  • President: Pasquale PERRONE FILARDI 

Website

Italian Federation of Cardiology (IFC)

  • President: Ciro Indolfi
  • Dates of term: 2023 - 2025

Website

Kazakhstan

  • President: Amina Rakisheva

Website

Korea 

  • President: ByungSu Yoo 

Website

Kosovo

  • President: Gani Bajraktari
  • Dates of term: March 2019 - March 2021

Website

Kyrgyzstan

  • President: Erkin Mirrakhimov

Latvia

  • President: Ginta Kamzola

Website

Lebanon

  • President: Hadi Skouri

Website

Lithuania

  • President: Jelena Čelutkienė

Website

Luxembourg

  • President: Crisitiana Banu

Website

Malta

  • President: Maryanne Caruana

Website

Montenegro

  • President: Maja Mirocevic Rotolo

North Macedonia

  • President: Silvana Jovanova

Netherlands

  • President: Vanessa Van Empel
  • Dates of term: January 2023 - January 2027

Website 

Norway

  • President: Kristina Larsby

Website

Poland

  • President: Agnieszka Pawlak
  • Dates of term: September 2023 - September 2025

Website 

Portugal

  • President: Elisabete Martins

Website

Republic of Moldova

  • President: Eleonora Vataman

Website

Republic of San Marino

  • President: Liano Marinelli

Website

Romania

  • President: Daniel Florin Lighezan
  • Dates of term: September 2023 - September 2026

Website

Russian Federation*

* The Russian National Heart Failure Society and Working Group is temporarily suspended from the membership of the ESC. See the ESC statement

  • President: Albert Galyavich

Website 

Serbia

  • President: Bratislav Milosavljevic
  • Dates of term: 2021 - 2023

Website

Slovak Republic

  • President: Peter Lesny
  • Dates of term: October 2021 –October 2025

Website

Slovenia

  • President: Mitja Lainscak

Website

Spain

  • President: Alejandro Recio Mayoral
  • Dates of term: October 2022 - October 2024

Website

Sweden

  • President: Krister Lindmark

Website

Switzerland

  • President: Matthias Paul

Website

Syria

  • President: Amr Abdin

Tunisia

  • President: Ikram Kammoun

Website

Turkey

  • President: Ahmet Celik

Website

Ukraine

  • President: Leonid Voronkov

Website

United Kingdom

  • President: Roy Gardner
  • Dates of term: December 2020 - December 2023

Website

Uzbekistan

  • President: Timur Abdullaev

HFA Young Ambassadors

Find out about the HFA Young ambassadors in each country.