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EACVI Committees

2024-2026

Education Committee

Chair: Ana Teresa Timoteo (Portugal)

Deputy Chair: Elena Galli (France)

  • Agnieszka Kaplon Cieslicka (Poland)
  • Arti Anushka Ramkisoensing (Netherlands)
  • Dan Augustine (United Kingdom)
  • Giulia Vinco (Italy)
  • Jamal Nasir Khan (United Kingdom)
  • Konstantinos Papadopoulos (Greece)
  • L Elif Sade (USA)
  • Lilit Baghdasaryan (United Kingdom)
  • Ozge Ozden Kayhan (Turkiye)
  • Sara Moscatelli (United Kingdom)
  • Simon Koestner (Switzerland)
  • Vlatka Reskovic Luksic (Croatia)

Scientific Initiatives Committee

Co-Chair (Surveys): Anna Baritussio (Italy)

Co-Chair (Scientific Documents): Philippe Bertrand (Belgium)

Co-Chair (Research): Andreas Giannopoulos (Switzerland)

  • Ahmet Demirkiran (Turkiye)
  • Andrea Barison (Italy)
  • Anna Giulia Pavon (Switzerland)
  • Blazej Michalski (Poland)
  • Carla Sousa (Portugal)
  • Dan Augustine (United Kingdom)
  • Danilo Neglia (Italy)
  • Dasa Zugwitz (Slovenia)
  • Emmanuel Androulakis (United Kingdom)
  • Erwan Donal (France)
  • Federico Fortuni (Italy)
  • Giovanni Di Salvo (Italy)
  • Ivan Stankovic (Serbia)
  • Julia Grapsa (United Kingdom)
  • Konstantinos Papadopoulos (Greece)
  • Luis Lopes (United Kingdom)
  • Maja Cikes (Croatia)
  • Malgorzata Wamil (United Kingdom)
  • Marc Dweck (United Kingdom)
  • Maribel Gonzalez Del Hoyo (Switzerland)
  • Marta Cvijic (Slovenia)
  • Niall Keenan (United Kingdom)
  • Philippe Debonnaire (Belgium)
  • Rodolfo Citro (Italy)
  • Saima Mushtaq (Italy)
  • Saloua El Messaoudi (Netherlands)
  • Sonia Borodzicz-Jazdzyk (Poland)
  • Thomas Treibel (Germany)
  • Tomaz Podlesnikar (Slovenia)
  • Valtteri Uusitalo (Finland)
  • Vasileios Kamperidis (Greece)
  • Yohann Bohbot (France)

Industry Round Table Committee

Chair: Gianluca Pontone (Italy)

Deputy Chair: Alessia Gimelli (Italy) 

  • Andrea Baggiano (Italy)
  • Andreas Giannopoulos (Switzerland)
  • Anna Giulia Pavon (Switzerland)
  • Bernard Cosyns (Belgium)
  • Francesca Mantovani (Italy)
  • Jaume Aguero (Spain)
  • Malgorzata Wamil (United Kingdom)
  • Marco Guglielmo (Italy)
  • Monica Deac (Switzerland)
  • Pal Maurovich-Horvat (Hungary)
  • Robin Nijveldt (Netherlands)
  • Valeria Pergola (Italy)

Web and Communication Committee

Chair: Sarah Moharem-Elgamal (United Kingdom) 

Deputy Chair: Rafael Vidal-Perez (Spain)

  • Ahmed Mohsen (Egypt)
  • Alex Felix (Brazil)
  • Andreas Giannopoulos (Switzerland)
  • Aniela Popescu (Germany)
  • Benay Ozbay (USA)
  • Caroline Van de Heying (Belgium)
  • Charles Fauvel (France)
  • Domenico Galzerano (Italy)
  • Elisabeth Santos (Portugal)
  • Elif Sade (USA)
  • Elizabeta Srbinovska-Kostovska (North Macedonia)
  • Giandomenico Bisaccia (Italy)
  • Giulia Vinco (Italy)
  • Laura Murphy (Ireland)
  • Mariana Brandao (Portugal)
  • Mihai-Nelu Trofenciuc (Romania)
  • Mohamed Marwan (Germany)
  • Novi Yanti Sari (Indonesia)
  • Ozge Ozden (Turkiye)
  • Pablo Elissamburu (Argentina)
  • Ryo Horita (Japan)
  • Sam Srivastava (United Kingdom)
  • Sarah Birkhoelzer (United Kingdom)
  • Shantanu Sengupta (India)
  • William Kong (Singapore)
  • Yasmina Bououdina (Algeria)
  • Yousef Daryani (United Kingdom)
  • Zuilma Vasquez (Mexico)

Membership Committee and International Communities

Chair: Steffen E. Petersen (United Kingdom)

  • Ahmed M Fareed Ali (Egypt)
  • Ana Almeida (Portugal)
  • Danilo Neglia (Italy)
  • Jadranka Separovic Hanzevacki (Croatia) 
  • L. Elif Sade (USA)
  • Monica Deac (Switzerland)
  • Ozge Ozden Kayhan (Turkiye)
  • Pal Maurovich-Horvat (Hungary)
  • Shantanu Sengupta (India)
  • Soukaina Scadi (Morocco)
  • Sven Plein (United Kingdom)
  • Tugba Kemaloglu Oz (Australia)

National Cardiac Societies Committee

Chair: Denisa Muraru (Italy)

  • Alexandros Stefanidis (Greece)
  • Andreea Calin (Romania)
  • Andrzej Gackowski (Poland)
  • Anne Bernard (France)
  • Bjornar Grenne (Norway)
  • Carla Sousa (Portugal)
  • Dan Augustine (United Kingdom)
  • Elena Romero Dorta (Germany)
  • Gamze Babur Guler (Turkiye)
  • Giovanni Di Salvo (Italy)
  • Ivan Stankovic (Serbia)
  • Manuel Barreiro Perez (Spain)
  • Raluca Elena Dulgheru (Belgium)

Heart Imagers of Tomorrow (HIT) Committee

Chair: Giulia Elena Mandoli (Italy)

Deputy Chair: Elena Romero Dorta (Germany)

  • Alexandre Unger (France)
  • Andreea Motoc (Belgium)
  • Andreea-Sorina Afana (Romania)
  • Aniela Monica Petrescu (Germany)
  • Anna Burton (United Kingdom)
  • Edin Begic (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
  • Francisco Dias Claudio (Portugal)
  • Giovanni Benfari (Italy)
  • Giulia Vinco (Italy)
  • Jana Patricia Polesenska (Slovakia)
  • Maria Luiza Luchian (Belgium)
  • Mariana Brandao (Portugal)
  • Niya Mileva (Bulgaria)
  • Riccardo Maria Inciardi (Italy)
  • Rolf Symons (Belgium)
  • Sara Moscatelli (United Kingdom)
  • Sonia Borodzicz-Jazdzyk (Poland)
  • Tea-Terezija Cvetko (Croatia)
  • Theo Pezel (France)
  • Yasmina Bououdina (Algeria)
  • Yohann Bohbot (France)

Shared Interest Groups (SIGs) Committee

Chair: Theo Pezel (France)

Deputy Chair: Ana Almeida (Portugal)

  • Alexandre Unger (France)
  • Ana Teresa Timeo (Portugal)
  • Andreas Giannopoulos (Switzerland)
  • Bernard Cosyns (Belgium)
  • Domenico Galzerano (Italy)
  • Efstathia Prappa (Greece)
  • Gianluca Pontone (Italy)
  • Giovanni Di Salvo (Italy)
  • Joana Braga (Portugal)
  • Marc Dweck (United Kingdom)
  • Marie Annick Clavel (Canada)
  • Sonia Borodzicz-Jazdzyk (Poland)
  • Trecy Gonçalves (France)
  • Yasmina Bououdina (Algeria)

Certification and Accreditation Committee (In progress)

Co-Chair: Luna Gargani (Italy)

Co-Chair: John-Paul Carpenter (United Arab Emirates)

CMR Subcommittee

  • Chair: Robin Nijveldt
  • Deputy Chair: Mohammed Yunus Khanji
  • Members:
    • Alexander Gotschy
    • Alexander Hirsch
    • Alicia Maria Maceira Gonzalez
    • Ana Maria G Almeida
    • Andrea Barison
    • Anna Baritussio
    • Caroline M Van De Heyning
    • Christoph Jensen
    • Fabrizio Ricci
    • Giancarlo Todiere
      Jamal Nasir Khan
    • Jose Fernando Rodriguez Palomares
    • Michael Sosin
    • Monica Deac
    • Robert Holtackers
    • Robert Manka
    • Stefano Figliozzi
    • Valentina Puntmann
    • Vimal Raj
    • Yousef Daryani

CMR CHD Subcommittee

  • Chair: Tobias Rutz
  • Deputy Chair: Emanuela Valsangiacomo Buechel
  • Members:
    • Christian Meierhofer
    • Israel Valverde
    • Kuberan Pushparajah
    • Philipp Beerbaum
    • Rajesh Puranik
    • Michael Quail

TTE Subcommittee

  • Chair: Elena Galli
  • Deputy Chair: Agnes A Pasquet
  • Members:
    • Adriana Mihaela Iliesiu
    • Alexandra Toste
    • Ana Teresa Timoteo
    • Carmen Beladan
    • Concetta Zito
    • Dilek Cicek Yilmaz
    • Dimitrios Tsiapras
    • Efstathios Pagourelias
    • Eirini Velegraki
    • Francesca Casadei
    • Gergely Agoston
    • Konstantinos Papadopoulos
    • Kyriakos Yiangou
    • Marta Cvijic
    • Nicola Riccardo Pugliese
    • Nicolas Brugger
    • Savvas Loizos
    • Sylvestre Marechaux
    • Ugur Nadir Karakulak
    • Valeria Pergola
    • Vasileios Panis
    • Vlatka Reskovic Luksic

TOE Subcommittee

  • Co-Chair (EACVI): Constantinos Hristou Papadopoulos
  • Co-Chair (EACTAIC): Joost Van Der Maaten
  • Members:
    • Alexandros Stefanidis
    • Angela Mahdi
    • Fabio Guarracino
    • Joachim Mathias Erb
    • Johan Bence
    • Laura Anna Leo
    • Ligia Mendes
    • Malgorzata Wamil
    • Massimiliano Mariani
    • Maurice Hogan
    • Nikolaos Kadoglou
    • Panagiotis Zachos
    • Roland Rudi Brandt
    • Stefaan Bouchez
    • Valentina Ajello
    • Valentina Rancati

Echo CHD Subcommittee

  • Co-Chair (EACVI): Annemien Van Den Bosch
  • Co-Chair (AEPC): Owen Miller
  • Members:
    • Ariana Spanaki
    • Giovanni Di Salvo
    • Kelly Peacock
    • Massimiliano Cantinotti
    • Sonya Babu-Narayan
    • Tara Bharucha
    • Wei Li

Nuclear Cardiology Subcommittee

  • Co-Chair (EACVI) : Ronny Ralf Buechel
  • Co-Chair (EANM): Fabien Hyafil
  • Members:
    • Alessia Gimelli
    • Anastasia Kitsiou
    • Andreas Giannopoulos
    • Federico Caobelli
    • Raffaella Calabretta
    • Rene Nkoulou
    • Riccardo Liga
    • Stephen Richard Underwood

Cardiac CT Subcommittee

  • Chair: Marc Dweck
  • Deputy Chair: Sarah Moharem Elgamal
  • Members:
    • Adam Levente Jermendy
    • Ahmed Asfour
    • Alessandro Ruggiero
    • Aloha Meave
    • Andrea Baggiano
    • Andreas Giannopoulos
    • Ashraf Hamdan
    • Balint Szilveszter
    • Carlo Tedeschi
    • Ceri Davies
    • Edoardo Conte
    • Gianluca Pontone
    • Ibrahim Danad
    • Joel Lenell
    • Jonathan Weir-Mccall
    • M Guglielmo
    • Manish Motwani
    • Marie-Annick Clavel
    • Mariusz Kruk
    • Menaka Mahendran
    • Mihaly Karolyi
    • Mirvat Alasnag
    • Mohamed Marwan
    • Monica Monaghan
    • Mouaz Al Mallah
    • Ozge Ozden Kayhan
    • Pal Maurovich-Horvat
    • Riccardo Liga
    • Ronak Rajani
    • Ronny Ralf Buechel
    • Russell Everett
    • Saima Mushtaq
    • Stefania Rosmini
    • Theo Pezel
    • Timothy Fairbairn
    • Ulrike Haberland
    • William Jenkins

Laboratory Accreditation Echo Subcommittee

  • Chair: Alexandros Stefanidis
  • Deputy Chair: Monica Rosca
  • Members:
    • Antonella Moreo
    • Constantinos Hristou Papadopoulos
    • Kyriakos Yiangou
    • Marta Cvijic
    • Ole-Alexander Breithardt
    • Paolo Colonna
    • Piotr Lipiec
    • Roland Rudi Brandt
    • Tomasz Kukulski

Laboratory Accreditation CMR Subcommittee

  • Chair: Robert Manka
  • Deputy Chair: Anna Baritussio
  • Members:
    • Bostjan Berlot
    • Christopher Schneeweis
    • Jose Fernando Rodriguez Palomares
    • Justyna Sokolska
    • Louise Brown
    • Manish Motwani
    • Mareike Cramer
    • Mohammed Yunus Khanji
    • Monica Deac
    • Steffen Erhard Petersen

EACVI 2025 Scientific Programme Committee

Scientific Programme Chair: Victoria Delgado (Spain)

Echo Co-Chair: Nina Ajmone Marsan (Netherlands)

 Echo Scientific Committee Advisors:

  • Allison Duncan (United Kingdom)
  • Andrzej Gachowski (Poland)
  • Bernard Cosyns (Belgium)
  • Elena Galli (France)
  • Elena Romero Dorta (Germany)
  • Francesca Graziani (Italy)
CMR Co-Chair: Mark Westwood (United Kingdom)

CMR Scientific Committee Advisors:

  • Alexander Schulz (Germany)
  • Anna Baritussio (Italy)
  • Jamal Khan (United Kingdom)
  • Jose F. Rodriguez Palomares (Spain)
  • Robert Manka (Switzerland)
  • Sarah Moharem Elgamal (United Kingdom)
Nuclear & CCT Co-Chair: Marc Dweck (United Kingdom)

Nuclear & CCT Scientific Committee Advisors:

  • Alessia Gimelli (Italy)
  • Andreas Giannopolous (Switzerland)
  • Mouaz Al Mallah (USA)
  • Paola Erba (Italy)
  • Pal Maurovich-Horvat (Hungary)
  • Theo Pezel (France)