EHRA Training Fellowship 2018 winners & past winners

2018

EHRA Observational Training Programme

Funded by BIOSENSE WEBSTER 

Andrés Miranda-Arboleda (Columbia)
will go to Institut cardiovasculaire Paris Sud for 3 weeks

Sergiu-Nicolae Sipis (Romania)
will go to Maastricht University Medical Center for 3 weeks

Nic Dragotoiu (Romania)
will go to Sestre milosrdnice University Hospital Center for 3 weeks

Vitaly Lyashenko (Russia)
will go to Herzzentrum for 4 weeks

Alper Kepez (Turkey)
will go to Herzzentrum for 4 weeks

Dzianis Pilant (Belarus)
will go to Herzzentrum for 4 weeks

Vladimir Boskov (Macedonia The Former Yugoslav Republic of) will go to Sestre milosrdnice University Hospital Center for 4 weeks

Giulio Zucchelli (Italy)
will go to Hospital Clinic, Universitat de Barcelona for 4 weeks

Anna Utyasheva (Russia)
will go to Elisabethinen University Teaching Hospital for 4 weeks 

Lorenzo Costantini (Italy)
will go to Hospital Clinic, Universitat de Barcelona for 4 weeks

Sherein samy Abdelsamiea (Egypt)
will go to Aarhus University Hospital for 4 weeks

José Nunes de Alencar Neto (Brazil)
will go to Herzzentrum for 4 weeks

Catrina Bianca (Romania)
will go to Institut cardiovasculaire Paris Sud for 4 weeks

Funded by ABBOTT

Jane Aboulenein Nader (Egypt)
will go to Aarhus University Hospital for 2 weeks

 

Jane Taleski (Macedonia The Former Yugoslav Republic of)
will go to Sestre milosrdnice University Hospital Center for 2 weeks

 

Albina Shapieva (Russia)
will go to Sestre milosrdnice University Hospital Center for 2 weeks

 

Guram Machitidze (Georgia)
will go to Universitäres Herzzentrum Lübeck for 2 weeks

 

Maxim George Razvan (Romania)
will go to Thorax Center, Erasmus for 4 weeks

Piotr Futyma(Poland)
will go to Elisabethinen University Teaching Hospital for 4 weeks

Arrhythmias and Cardiac Pacing Fellowship with emphasis on catheter ablation (one year). A joint programme with APHRS

Khalid Bin Waleed* (China)

will go to ZNA Middelheim Hospital, Antwerp. Thanks to *St. Jude Medical

2017

EHRA Observational Training Programme

Funded by BIOSENSE WEBSTER 

• Bor Antolič (Slovenia) - University Hospital Basel for 2 weeks 
• Francesco De Sensi (Italy) - Hospital Clinic, Universitat de Barcelona for 4 weeks
• Vitali Kadachkin (Belarus) - Herzzentrum for 4 weeks
• Márcio G. Kiuchi (Germany) - Siberian Federal Biomedical research for 4 weeks
• Fatih Mehmet (Turkey) - Lübeck centre for 4 weeks
• Adam Priebe (Poland) - Hospital Clinic, Universitat de Barcelona for 2 weeks
• Martin Svetlošák (Slovakia) - University Hospital Basel for 4 weeks
• Alexey Tsyagnov (Russia) - Hospital Clinic, Universitat de Barcelona for 2 weeks

Funded by ABBOTT

• Ahmed M.A Bahnasawy (Egypt) - Herzzentrum, Leipzig for 4 weeks
• Sergio Conti (Italy) - Institut cardiovasculaire Paris Sud for 2 weeks
• Yasmeen Taha (Egypt) - Aarhus University Hospital for 4 weeks
• Nikolaos Karamichalakis (Greece) - Hospital Clinic, Universitat de Barcelona for 2 weeks
• Katarzyna Malaczynska-Rajpold (Poland) - Hospital Clinic, Universitat de Barcelona for 4 weeks
• Ozcan Ozeke (Turkey) - Aarhus University Hospital for 4 weeks
• Ilya Repnikov (Russia) - Herzzentrum, Leipzig for 2 weeks
• Valentina Schirripa (Italy) - Herzzentrum, Leipzig for 2 weeks

Clinical electrophysiology with emphasis on catheter ablation (one year)

• Yusuf Turkmen (Turkey) - Karolinska University Hospital, Sweden

Thanks to financial support from Biosense Webster

Arrhythmias and Cardiac Pacing Fellowship with emphasis on catheter ablation (one year). A joint programme with APHRS

• Sandeep Prabhu (Australia) - St Bartholomew’s Hospital, UK

Thanks to financial support from Abbott

2016

Proctor programme

• Imnadze Guram** (Georgia) -  Karolinska University Hospital, Sweden
• Antonios Antoniadis** (Greece) - UZ Brussels, Belgium
• Reinder Evertz* (Netherlands) - IKEM, Czech Republic

Thanks to financial support from * Biosense Webster, ** Cook Medical

Clinical electrophysiology with emphasis on catheter ablation (one year)

• Justo Juliá Calvo* (Spain) - St. Thomas' Hospital, United Kingdom
• Jakub Baran* (Poland) - Papworth Hospital in Cambridge
• Tayyar Gokdeniz* (Turkey) - Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Czech Republic
• Michael Wolf** (Belgium) - Hopital Haut Levêque, France
• Andrei-Dumitru Margulescu** (Romania) - Hospital Clinic University of Barcelona
• Ganesha Babu Girish** (UK) - San Raffaele Hospital, Milan
• Gábor Sándorfi** (Hungary) - University Hospital of Antwerp, Belgium
• Ahmed Wed** (Egypt) - Karolinska University Hospital, Sweden

Thanks to financial support from *St. Jude Medical, **Biosense Webster

Arrhythmias and Cardiac Pacing Fellowship with emphasis on catheter ablation (one year). A joint programme with APHRS.

• Yinhao Huang* (China) - Asklepios, Hamburg, Germany
• Ian Lusoc* (Philippines) - UZ Brussels, Belgium

Thanks to financial support from *St. Jude Medical

2015

Proctor programme

• Michala Pedersen** (Denmark) - Hospital Universitario La Paz, Spain
• Stefan Bogdan* (Romania) - Hospital Puerta de Hierro, Spain
• Dejan Kojic** (Serbia) - Policlinico Casilino of Rome, Italy
• Vassil Traykov** (Bulgaria), - IKEM, Czech Republic

Thanks to financial support from *Medtronic, **European Heart Rhythm Association

Clinical Electrophysiology with emphasis on Catheter Ablation (one year)

• Dugo Daniela*** (Italy) - Cardioangiologisches Centrum Bethanien,Frankfurt, Germany
• Cipolletta Laura *** (Italy) - St. Thomas' Hospital, United Kingdom
• Celikyurt Yengi Umut*** (Turkey) - Univeristy Hospital Basel, Switzerland
• Linhart Markus*** (Germany) - Hospital Clinic, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
• Kordalis Athanasios *** (Greece) - University Hospital Nancy, France
• Martirosyan Mihran* (Armenia) - Erasmus MC, Thoraxcentrum, The Netherlands
• Matoshvili Zviad (Georgia) - Karolinska University Hospital, Sweden
• Pavlov Alexandr (Russia) - IKEM, Czech Republic
• Teijeira Fernández Elvis** (Spain) - Hopital Haut Leveque, France

Thanks to financial support from *St. Jude, **Siemens, ***Biosense Webster

Clinical Electrophysiology with emphasis on Catheter Ablation (two years)

• Ohanyan Davit (Armenia) - Klinikum Ludwigsburg, Germany

Thanks to financial support from the European Heart Rhythm Association

Arrhythmias and Cardiac Pacing fellowship with emphasis on ICD/CRT

• Di Marco Andrea* (Italy) - University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom
• Goanta Emilia-Violeta* (Romania) - Casilino Hospital in Rome, Italy
• Kadoglou Nikolaos* (Greece) - Catharina Hospital, Eidhoven, The Netherlands

Thanks to financial support from *Biotronik

Arrhythmias and Cardiac Pacing Fellowship with emphasis on Catheter Ablation (one year). A joint programme with APHRS

• McLellan Alex* (Australia) - St Bartholomew’s Hospital, UK
• Lin Changjian* (China) - Rigshospitalet, Denmark
• Boochibabu Mannuva (India) - Na Homolce Hospital, Czech Republic

Thanks to financial support from *St. Jude Medical

Academic Research Grant Training Fellowship

Dr. Alban Elouen Baruteau, France

• Dr. Alban Elouen Baruteau graduated in 2011 at the Rennes-1 University and was granted a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in pediatric electrophysiology, in the Department of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery at New York Presbyterian/Columbia University in New York. 
• The EHRA Academic Research Fellowship Programme enabled him to run a high-quality supervised research programme at the LIRYC Institute-CHU in Bordeaux.
• The proposed project was both a clinical and a basic science research programme called «DISCO study», which aimed at better describing clinical/ECG characteristics and molecular mechanisms of cardiac conduction disorders and cardiac arrhythmias associated with congenital heart diseases with discordant atrio-ventricular connection.

2014

Proctor Programme

• Mihaela Grecu* (Romania) - Hospital Clinic Barcelona, Spain
• Khatuna Jalabadze* (Georgia) - German Heart Centre, Munich, Germany
• Giorgi Papiashvili* (Georgia) -  IKEM, Czech Republic
• Daniel Scherr (Austria) - CHU Bordeaux, France
• Konstantinos Letsas (Greece) - Hospital Universitario La Paz, Spain
• Emin Ozcan (Turkey) - Heart Rhythm centre, Brussels

Thanks to financial support from *Medtronic

Academic research grant training fellowship

Dr. Michiel Rienstra, Netherlands

• Dr. Michiel Rienstra is cardiologist at the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), and his clinical work and research focus on atrial fibrillation (AF).
• After his PhD on AF in 2007, underlying diseases and prognosis, he continued research and did a post-doctoral fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital and Framingham Heart Study and studied the epidemiology and genetics of AF.
• The overall objective of his research was to find ways to better treat and prevent AF by investigating clinical risk factors, biomarkers, and genetic variants.

Award for best publication

• Giulio Conte, Italy

Clinical electrophysiology with emphasis on catheter ablation

• Kiedrowicz Radoslaw Marek***, Poland, St Thomas Hospital, UK
• Saguner Ardan M.***, Switzerland, Asklepios centre, Hamburg, Germany
• Gómez Pulido Federico***, Spain, Royal Brompton Hosiptal, UK
• Vukmirovic Mihailo***, Montenegro, IKEM, Czech Republic
• Saygi Serkan***, Turkey, Karolinska University, Sweden
• Velagić Vedran*, Croatia, UZ Brussel - Heart Rhythm Management Centre, Belgium
• Barsamian Sergei*, Armenia, Oxford University Hospitals, UK
• Arceluz Martin*, Argentina, Hospital Universitario La Paz, Spain
• Frontera Antonio**, Italy, Hopital Haut Leveque, France

Thanks to financial support from *St. Jude, **Siemens, ***Biosense Webster

Arrhythmias and Cardiac Pacing fellowship with emphasis on ICD/CRT

• Cabanelas Nuno**, Portugal, Thorax Institute, Barcelona, Spain
• Antoniadis Antonios P.*, Greece, Guys and St Thomas' Hospitals, UK
• Neuhoff Istvan*, Romania, Semmelweis University, Hungary
• Diamante  Rafael*, Brazil, Sheba Medical Centre, Israel

*Thanks to financial support from *Biotronik and **Sorin

Arrhythmias and cardiac pacing fellowship with emphasis on catheter ablation (one year) / joint programme with APHRS

• Chen Shaojie, China, Public Hospital Elisabethinen - Linz, Austria
• Parag Barwad, India, Cardiovascular Center, OLV Hospital Aalst – Belgium
• Rajin Choudhury, India, AZ Sint Jan AV Brugge, Belgium

*Thanks to financial support from *St. Jude

2013

Academic research grant training fellowship

Mikhail Dzeshka is assistant lecturer of the 1st Department of Internal Diseases at Grodno State Medical University, Grodno, Belarus. His field of interest is cardiology, including arrhythmias, heart failure and arterial hypertension. He got his PhD in 2012.

Their research will focus on evaluation of possible associations between levels of circulating microparticles, diastolic dysfunction and left ventricular fibrosis in patients with atrial fibrillation and heart failure with preserved ejection fraction as well as assessment of predictive value of studied parameters for occurrence of a combined endpoint of heart failure related hospital admissions and all-cause death.

Award for best publication

Stefano Bordignon, IT, Impact Factor: 5.045

Clinical electrophysiology with emphasis on catheter ablation

• Celestino Sardu*, Italy, Leiden university Medical center, NL
• Bisbal Van Bylen Felipe***, Spain, ZNA The Middelheim Hospital Antwerpen
• Badran Haitham***, Egypt, German Heart Center- Munich-Germany
• Clemens Marcell***, Hungary, IKEM - CZ
• Berte Benjamin*, Belgium, Hôpital Haut-Lévêque Pessac Léognan, CHU Bordeaux
• Kuridze Nika*, Georgia, Az Sint Jan - Brugge
• Perrotta Laura**, Italy, Cardioangiologisches Centrum Bethanien (CCB), Germany
• Anahit Henry Petrosyan***, Armenia, Herz und GefäB Klinik Bad Neustad
• Oloriz Teresa***, Spain, San Raffaele University Hospital, Milano
• Botros Maichel***, Egypt, Asklepios Klinik St Georg- Hamburg
• Dejan Risteski***, FYR of Macedonia, Arrhythmia Department, State Research Institute of Circulation Pathology- Novosibirsk
• Ragab Ahmed***, Egypt, Puerta Hierro University Hospital, Madrid, Spain
• Pavlovic Nikola***, Croatia, Universitätsspital Basel, Switzerland
• Bardhaj Gazmend***, Albania, OLV Aalst

 Thanks to financial support from *St Jude, **Siemens, ***Biosense Webster

Arrhythmias and cardiac pacing fellowship with emphasis on ICD/CRT

• Rogacheva Natalia*, Russian Federation, IKEM
• Korshunov Viatcheslav*, Russian Federation, Clinic Hospital Barcelona
• Nawar Amr***, Egypt, San Raffaele University Hospital, Milano
• Lumia Giuseppe***, Italy, Hospital Ramon Y Cajal- Madrid
• Baltogiannis Giannis**, Greece, Universitair Ziekenhuis-Brussels
• Ghazala Irfan*, Pakistan, Universitair Ziekenhuis-Brussels 

Thanks to financial support from *Biotronik, **Sorin, ***Medtronic

Arrhythmias and cardiac pacing fellowship with emphasis on catheter ablation (one year) / joint programme with APHRS   

• Miki Yamase, Japan, San Raffaele University Hospital, Milano
• Tina Lin, Australia, Asklepios Centre, Hamburg, Germany
• Jin QI, China, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark

2012 

Award for best publication

Csaba HERCZKU, Hungary, Impact Factor : 14.429 2012

Clinical electrophysiology fellowship with emphasis on catheter ablation (one year) 

• Aglaia-Angeliki MANTZIARI (2), Greece, Royal Brompton and Harefield, UK
• Marta DE RIVA SILVA (2), Spain, Leiden University, Netherlands
• Juliana ELICES TEJA (2), Spain, AZ Sint Jan AV Brugge, Belgium
• Ahmed TAHER (2), Egypt, Royal Bournemouth Hospital, UK
• Willem-Jan ACOU (2), Belgium, Heart Centre Leipzig, Germany
• John Christian SILBERBAUER (1), South Africa, Fondazione Centro San Raffaele del Monte Tabor, Italy
• Alexey TSYGANOV (1), Russia, Na Homolce Hospital, Czech Republic
• Stefan Nicolae BOGDAN (1), Romania, Davidai Arrhythmia Center, Israel
• Aleksander BARDYSZEWSKI (1), Poland, Asklepios Centre, Hamburg, Germany
• Sherif Osama ELSAYED GOUDA (1), Egypt, Institute for Clinical and experimental medicine (IKEM), Czech Republic
• Stephan ZELLERHOFF (1), Germany, CHU Bordeaux, France
• Mauro TONIOLO (1), Italy, Hospital Universitario La Paz, Spain
• Alessandro BLANDINO (1), Italy, St. Bartholomew's Hospital, UK
• Giulio CONTE (3), Italy, Heart Rhythm Management Centre, Belgium
• Reinder EVERTZ (3), Netherlands, Thorax Institute - Hospital Clinic, University of Barcelona
• Georgios KOLLIAS (4), Greece, Public Hospital Elisabethinen, Linz, Austria
• Stefano BORDIGNON (6), Italy, Cardioangiologisches Centrum Bethanien (CCB), Germany
• Leila RIAHI (6), Tunisia, Cardiovascular Centre Antwerp, Belgium
• Hany Mahmoud ABO-HADED (5), Egypt, OLV Hospital Aalst, Belgium

Thanks to financial support from (1)Biosense Webster, (2)Biotronik, (3)Medtronic, (4)GE, (5)Siemens, (6)St Jude 

Arrhythmias and cardiac pacing fellowship with emphasis on ICD/CRT

• Giulia DOMENICHINI*, Italy, St George's Hospital, UK
• Marie-Jennyfer NG KAM CHUEN*, UK, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark

Thanks to financial support from *Sorin

Arrhythmias and Cardiac Pacing fellowship with emphasis on catheter ablation (one year) / joint programme with APHRS

• Vikas KATARIA*, India, AZ Sint Jan AV Brugge, Belgium
• Ji-Eun BAN*, Korea, Thorax Institute - Hospital Clinic, University of Barcelona

Thanks to financial support from *St Jude

International training fellowship - Argentinian grant

Jorge Figueroa has been working at the Allende Hospital. National University of Cordoba in Argentina from 2007 to 2011 and obtained his graduate in Echocardiography.

He will follow his training fellowship programme on Clinical Electrophysiology with Emphasis on Catheter ablation at the LA PAZ Hospital in Madrid.

Thanks to the financial support of the Argentinean Working Group on Cardiac Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology.

2011

Award for Best Publication 

Christian MEYER, Germany, Impact Factor: 14.816

Basic clinical electrophysiology fellowship with emphasis on catheter ablation (two years) 

• Rodriguez MOISES, Spain, Heart Rhythm Management Centre, Belgium
• Teresa OLORIZ SANJUAN, Spain, Fondazione Centro San Raffaele Del Tabor, Italy
• Kamil GUBAEV, Russia, Munster University, Germany

Advanced clinical electrophysiology fellowship with emphasis on catheter ablation (one year) 

• Octavian CENUSA*, Moldavia, Hospital Vall d'Hebron, Spain
• Sokratis PASTROMAS*, Greece, Leipzig University, Germany
• Bas A. SCHOONDERWOERD*, Netherlands, Asklepios Centre, Hamburg, Germany
• Procolo MARCHESE**, Italy, Royal Brompton and Harefield, United Kingdom
• Danilo RICCIARDI**, Italy, Heart Rhythm Management Centre, Belgium
• Maheshwar PAURIAH**, UK, University Hospital Nancy, France
• Naiara CALVO***, Spain, Leiden University, Netherlands
• Sok-Sithikun BUN***, France, AZ Sint Jan Brugge, Belgium

Thanks to financial support from *Biosense, **Biotronik and ***Medtronic

Arrhythmias and cardiac pacing fellowship with emphasis on ICD/CRT 

• Domenico GRIECO*, Italy, Institute for Clinical and experimental Medicine, Czech Republic
• Herribert PAVACI*, Albania, Deutsches Herzzentrum Munchen, Germany
• Malek KHATIB*, Lebanon, Thorax Institute, Spain

 Thanks to financial support from *Sorin 

2010

EHRA President’s Fellowship 2010 

Mark A. SAMMUT, Malta, Zentralklinik Bad Berka GmbH

Award for Best Publication 

Konstantinos LETSAS, Greece, Impact Factor : 4.44

Arrhythmias and Cardiac Pacing fellowship with emphasis on Catheter Ablation (one year)

• Marta ACENA RAMOS*, Spain, AZ Sint Jan AV Brugge, Brugge, Belgium
• Melanie KONSTANTINIDOU*, Greece, AK St Georg, Hamburg, Germany
• Csaba HERCZKU**, Hungary, Hospital Clinic, University of Barcelona - Thorax Institute, Spain
• Michala PEDERSEN**, United Kingdom, Hôpital Cardiologique Haut Leveque, Bordeaux, France
• Agnieska WOJDYLA-HORDYNSKA**, Poland, University of Leipzig - Heart Center, Germany

Thanks to financial support from *Biosense Webster and **Biotronik 

2010 Arrhythmias and cardiac pacing fellowship with emphasis on ICD/CRT 

• Haitham BADRAN*, Egypt, German Heart Centre, München, Germany
• Danilo RICCIARDI*, Italy, Heart Rhythm management Center UZ Brussels, Belgium
• Milen PREDOVSKI*, Bulgaria, Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic

Thanks to financial support from *Sorin

2009

Basic clinical electrophysiology fellowship with emphasis on catheter ablation (two years) 

• Daniel SCHERR, Austria, Hôpital Cardiologique Haut Leveque, Bordeaux, France
• Diana TINT, Romania, University of Debrecen, Hungary
• Emin Evren OZCAN, Turkey, Semmelweis University, Heart Centre, Hungary
• Ibrahim Mohammed Abdelfattah NOSSIER, Egypt, CHU Nancy, Hopital de Brabois, France
• Duhan Fatih BAYRAK, Turkey, Heart Rhythm management Center UZ Brussels, Belgium

Advanced clinical electrophysiology fellowship with emphasis on catheter ablation (one year) 

• Christian MEYER*, Germany, Public Hospital Elisabethinen / Academic Teaching centre, Linz, Austria
• Thomas BERGER*, Austria, Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic
• Hrvojka Marija ZELJKO*, Croatia, Hospital Clinic, University of Barcelona - Thorax Institute, Spain
• Kars NEVEN**, Netherlands, Asklepios Clinic St. Georg, Hamburg, Germany
• Borislav DINOV**, Bulgaria, University of Leipzig - Heart Center, Germany

Thanks to financial support from *Biosense Webster and **Biotronik 

Arrhythmias and cardiac pacing fellowship with emphasis on ICD/CRT

Eduard BELU, Romania*, Hospital Clinic, University of Barcelona - Thorax Institute, Spain
Liliana STEFAN, Romania*, Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic
Hrvoje VRAZIC, Croatia*, German Heart Centre, München, Germany

Thanks to financial support from *Sorin 

2008

Advanced Programme (one year) 

• Andrei FORCLAZ*, Switzerland, CHU de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
• Marcin GAWRYSIAK*, Poland, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, Netherlands
• Peter HLIVAK*, Slovakia, Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic
• Giorgi PAPIASHVILI*, Georgia, AZ Sint Jan AV Brugge, Brugge, Belgium
• Karol MAKOWSKI*, Poland, Cardiovascular Heart Centre, Inselspital, Bern, Switzerland

Thanks to financial support from *Biosense Webster

2007

Basic Programme (two years)

• Gaetano PAPARELLA, Italy, Heart Rhythm management Center UZ Brussels, Belgium
• Rodrigo GALLARDO LOBO, Spain, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
• Alexandru DEUTSCH, Romania, University Hospital, Mannheim, Germany
• Stylianos TZEIS, Greece, German Heart Center, Munich, Germany
• Melanie KONSTANTINIDOU , Greece, AK St Georg, Hamburg, Germany
• Maciej WOJCIK, Poland, Kerckhfoff Klinik, Bad Nauheim, Germany

Advanced Programme (one year)

• Gabor BENCSIK*, Hungary, Academic Teaching Hosptial of the University of Vienna and Innsburck, Linz, Austria
• José TOLOSANA*, Spain, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
• Radu-Gabriel VATASESCU*, Romania, Hospital Clinic University of Barcelona-Thorax Institute, Barcelona, Spain
• Kakhaber ETSADASHVILI*, Georgia, Medical University Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
• Konstantinos LETSAS*, Greece, Herz Zentrum Bad Krozingen, Bad Krozingen, Germany

Thanks to financial support from *Biosense Webster