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ESC Working Group on Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy

The Working Group on Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy of the ESC is actively involved with all aspects of cardiovascular pharmacology, from basic pharmacology over clinical trials to clinical pharmacology.

Our Working Group was featured in the November 2023 edition of CardioPulse in the European Heart Journal. Read about the evolution of our Working Group and our endeavours to inform and educate trainees and established practitioners working in the field.

Aims and Activities

Aims

  • To promote and organise research in the field of cardiovascular pharmacology and drug therapy
  • To design and coordinate scientific research in its specialty
  • To be involved in task forces of the European Society of Cardiology related to cardiovascular pharmacology
  • To increase the number of Working Group members

Activities

  • To start up and strengthen the new journal of the Working Group, entitled European Heart Journal-Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy. The journal will come out with 4 issues during 2015 aiming at increasing that number up to 12 issues a year within 5-6 years. An aim with the journal is to become the strongest scientific journal within cardiovascular pharmacology
  • To organise yearly scientific meeting of the Working Group with focus on cardiovascular pharmacology
  • To participate in the production of ESC Clinical Practice Guidelines
  • To publish position papers within the area of the Working Group
  • To contribute to the organisation and preparation of the Annual Congress of the ESC
  • To participate and support other scientific meetings and symposia
  • To organise teaching workshops and other types of education on topics related to cardiovascular pharmacology and drug therapy
  • To hold regular meetings of the nucleus of the Working Group

Nucleus 2022-2024

Chairperson

Prof. Juan Carlos Kaski, FESC
St George's, University of London
Molecular & Clinical Sciences Research Inst
SW17 ORE London
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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Chairperson-Elect

Prof. Dobromir Dobrev, FESC
University Duisburg-Essen
Institute of Pharmacology
Hufelandstrasse 55
DE-45122 Essen
Germany
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Past-Chairperson

Assoc. Prof. Alexander Niessner
Medical University Of Vienna
Dept. Int. Med. Ii, Division Of Cardiology
Waehringer Guertel 18-20
AT-1090 Vienna
Austria 
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Treasurer

Prof. Claudio Ceconi, FESC
Italy
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Secretary 

Dr. Anne Grete Semb, FESC
Norway
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Communication coordinator

Assoc. Prof. Bianca Rocca, FESC
Italy
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Ordinary Nucleus members

Prof. Claudio Borghi, FESC
Italy
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Prof. Elisabetta Cerbai, FESC
Italy
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Prof. Peter Ferdinandy
Hungary
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Assoc. Prof. Erik Lerkevang Grove, FESC
Denmark
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Prof. Samuel Sossalla
Germany
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Dr. Patrick Sulzgruber, FESC
EuroCVP & Working Group representative in ESC Young Committee
Austria
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Non-voting Nucleus members

Prof. Gheorghe Andrei Dan, FESC
Romania
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Prof. Heinz Drexel, FESC
Austria
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Dr. Emma Magavern
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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Assoc. Prof. Gianluigi Savarese, FESC
Sweden
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Prof. Juan Luis Tamargo, FESC
Spain
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