Scientific Programme Committee

HFA Board 2020-2022

Presidential Trio (3 members)

• President: Prof. Andrew Coats (GB) 
• President-Elect: Prof. Giuseppe Rosano (GB)
• Immediate Past-President: Prof. Petar M. Seferović (RS)

 Executive Committee (5 members)

• Chairperson of the Clinical Section: Prof. Davor Milicic (HR)
• Chairperson of the Basic Science Section: Prof. Thomas Thum (DE)
  
• Coordinator for National HF Societies and Working Groups: Dr. Ovidiu Chioncel (RO)
• Secretary: Dr. Loreena Hill (GB)
• Treasurer: Prof. Ewa Jankowska (PL)
  

Clinical section (13 members)

• Prof. Magdy Abdelhamid (EG)
• Dr. Stamatis Adamopoulos (GR)
• Prof. Yuri Belenkov (RU)
• Dr. Tuvia Ben Gal (IL)
• Prof. Michael Bohm (DE)
• Prof. Alain Solal Cohen (FR)
• Prof. Finn Gustafsson (DK)
• Prof. Tiny Jaarsma (SE)
• Dr. Brenda Moura (PT)
• Prof. Wilfried Mullens (BE)
• Prof. Amina Rakisheva (KZ)
• Prof. Arsen Ristic (RS)
• Dr. Maurizio Volterrani (IT)

Basic Science section (2 members)

• Dr. Antonio Bayes Genis (ES)
• Dr. Sophie Van Linthout (DE)

Ex-officio (5 members)

Ex-officio board membership positions are reserved for:

• Editor in Chief, ESC Heart Failure - Prof. Stefan Anker (DE)
• CEO, European Society of Cardiology - Isabel Bardinet (FR)
• Editor in Chief, European Journal of Heart Failure - Prof. Marco Metra (IT)
• Chair of the Scientific Programme Committee for HF – Prof. Massimo Piepoli (IT)
• Chair of ESC Working Group on Myocardial – Prof. Carlo Gabriele Tocchetti (IT)

Sui-Generi (5 members)

• Prof. Gerasimos Filippatos (GR)
• Prof. Arantxa Gonzalez (ES)
• Prof. Yury Lopatin (RU) 
• Prof. Lars Lund (SE)
• Prof. Gianluigi Savarese (SE) 

Past Presidents Advisory Council

Past-Presidents automatically join the HFA Past-Presidents Advisory Council (members of which will be convoked by the HFA President once a year at the Annual HF Congress to meet and discuss HFA issues).

Past-Presidents are invited to advise the HFA Board on scientific, strategic, conflictive and ethical matters; they have no formal vote in any of the HFA bodies; they can participate in ongoing long-term activities of the Association.

• Prof. Petar Seferović (RS)
• Prof. Frank Ruschitzka (CH)
• Prof. Gerasimos Filippatos (GR)
• Prof. Stefan Anker (DE)
• Prof. Piotr Ponikowski (PL)
• Prof. John McMurray (GB)
• Prof. Kenneth Dickstein (NO)
• Prof. Dirk Brutsaert (BE)