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EAPCI Committees 2024-2026

For the term May 2024 – May 2026



EAPCI Advocacy and Regulatory Affairs Pillar 

Pillar Chair: Dr. Marie-Claude Morice (France)

Oversees: EAPCI Patient Advocacy Committee, EAPCI Nurses & Allied Professionals Committee and EAPCI Gender and Disparities Committee

EAPCI Patient Advocacy Committee

  • Chair : Dr. Stephane Manzo-Silberman, France
  • Co-Chair: Dr. Joanna J. Wykrzykowska, The Netherlands

Committee Members:

  • Dr.  Andrew Chapman, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
  • Ass. Prof. Domenico D'Amario, Italy
  • Dr. Emanuele Gallinoro, Italy
  • Dr. Ragy Hany Ibrahim, Egypt
  • Mrs. Lynne Hinterbuchner, Austria
  • Mr. Paul Mc Greavy, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
  • Ass. Prof  Sonja Salinger, Serbia
  • Dr. Sylwia Slawek-Szmyt, Poland
  • Dr. David Sulman, France
  • Prof. Marta Tavares-Silva, Portugal
  • Mr. Ciro Salvatore Vella, Italy
  • Ass. Prof. Biljana Zafirovska Taleska, North Macedonia

EAPCI Nurses & Allied Professionals Committee

  • Chair : Ms. Alison Dahlmann , France
  • Co-Chair: Ms. Angeliki Kolyda , Greece

Committee Members: 

  • Dr. Helena Correia, Portugal
  • Mr. David Creber, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
  • Dr. Iain Gillingham, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
  • Mrs. Christina Marie Grima, Malta
  • Mr. Andre Gruender, Germany
  • Dr. Matteo Migliorini, Italy
  • Mrs. Kristin Rykkje-Johannessen, Norway
  • Ms. Shareefah Shereef, Kuwait
  • Mrs. Katarina Sundqvist, Sweden
  • Ms. Sanna Neeltje Maria Verweg, The Netherlands

EAPCI Gender and Disparities Committee

  • Chair : Ass. Prof. Marta Izabela Kaluzna-Oleksy, FESC, Poland
  • Co-Chair: Dr. Giulia Masiero, Italy

Committee Members:

  • Dr. Clare Appleby, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
  • Dr. Marta Belmonte, Belgium
  • Dr. Marta Bujak, Poland
  • Dr. Rita Caldeira da Rocha, Portugal
  • Prof. Salvatore De Rosa, Italy
  • Dr. Caterina Gandolfo, Italy
  • Prof. Rania Hammami, Tunisia
  • Dr. Omeir Kadri, Germany
  • Dr. Alev Kilicgedik, Turkey
  • Ass.Prof. Mila Kovacevic, Serbia
  • Dr Jose Luis Leiva Pons, Mexico
  • Dr.  Chrysavgi Simopoulou, Greece

EAPCI Congress Pillar

Pillar Chair: Prof. Julinda Mehilli (Germany)

Oversees: EAPCI Educational Content, Courses, Webinars Committee and EAPCI Congress Committee

EAPCI Educational Content, Courses, Webinars Committee

  • Chair: Dr. Erik Rafflenbeul, Germany
  • Co-Chair: Prof. Thomas Johnson, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Committee Members:

  • Dr. Ignacio Jesus Amat Santos, Spain
  • Dr. Simone Biscaglia, Italy
  • Dr. Guillaume Bonnet, France
  • Prof. Alp Burak Catakoglu, Turkey
  • Dr. Chiara Fraccaro, Italy
  • Prof. Christoph Hammerstingl, Germany
  • Dr. Juan Fernando Iglesias
  • Dr. Sylwia Iwanczyk, Poland
  • Dr. Hikmet Kadioglu, Turkey
  • Dr. Angela McInerney, Ireland
  • Dr. Andi Rroku, Germany
  • Dr. Ruxandra Sava, France
  • Dr. Helle Soeholm, Denmark
  • Dr. Maarten van Leeuwen, The Netherlands

EAPCI Congress Committee

  • Chair: Dr. Valeria Paradies, The Netherlands
  • Co-Chair: Dr. Mirvat Alasnag, Saudi Arabia

Committee Members:

  • Ass. Prof. Kasparas Briedis, Lithuania
  • Dr. Chiara De Biase, France
  • Prof. Muzaffer M.  Degertekin, Turkey
  • Dr. Patrick Myers, Switzerland
  • Dr. Soledad Ojeda Pineda, Spain
  • Dr. Catarina Quina-Rodrigues, Portugal
  • Dr. Gennaro Sardella, Italy
  • Dr. Luca Testa, Italy
  • Ass. Prof. Mariusz Tomaniak, Poland
  • Dr. Pieter Adriaan Vriesendorp, Belgium
  • Dr. Yannick Willemen, Belgium

EAPCI Education Pillar

Pillar Chair: Prof. Goran Stankovic (Serbia)

Oversees: EAPCI Fellowship Grants Committee, EAPCI Accreditation, Training & Certification Committee and EAPCI Young Committee

EAPCI Fellowship Grants Committee

  • Chair  Dr. Benjamin Honton, France
  • Co-Chair: Ass. Prof. Mohammed Saad, Germany

Committee Members:

  • Dr. Judit Andreka, Hungary
  • Prof. Massimo Chessa, Italy
  • Dr. Christina Grothusen, Germany
  • Dr. Michalis Hamilos, Greece
  • Dr. Jonathan Hinton, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
  • Dr. Eduardo Infante de Oliveira, Portugal
  • Dr. Davorka Lulic, Croatia
  • Prof. Geraud Souteyrand, France
  • Dr. Eugenio Stabile, Italy
  • Dr. Helena Tizon Marcos, Spain
  • Prof. Mohamed Zahran, Egypt

EAPCI Accreditation, Training and Certification Committee

  • Chair : Prof. Nikos Werner, Germany
  • Co-Chair : Dr. Francesco Burzotta, Italy
  • Past Chair: Dr. Radoslaw Parma, Poland

Committee Members: 

  • Dr. Cristina Aurigemma, Italy
  • . Alessandro Beneduce, Italy
  • Dr. Marie-Jeanne Bertrand, France
  • Dr. Giuliano Costa, Italy
  • Dr. Claudia Jorge, Portugal
  • Prof. Can Yucel Karabay, Turkey
  • Dr. Arif Khokhar, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
  • Dr. Edward Koifman, Israel
  • Dr. Juergen Leick, Germany
  • Dr. Fabio Mangiacapra, Italy
  • Dr. Javier Martin Moreiras, Spain
  • Prof. Pascal Meier, Switzerland
  • Dr. Alice Moroni, Italy
  • Ass. Prof. Julia Seeger, Germany
    • Ass. Prof. Onur Tasar, Turkey

EAPCI Young Committee

  • Chair: Dr. Mario Iannaccone, Italy
  • Co-Chair: Dr. Aleksandra Gasecka, Poland

Committee Members:

  • Dr. Giulia Botti, Italy
  • Dr. Ilke Celikkale, Turkey
  • Ass. Prof. Pawel Mariusz Gasior, Poland
  • Dr. Leonidas Koliastasis, Greece
  • Dr. Lennert Minten, Belgium
  • Dr. Ana Rita Pereira, Portugal
  • Dr. Anantharaman Ramasamy, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
  • Dr. Francesca Rubino, Italy
  • Dr. Aninka Saboe, Indonesia
  • Dr. Antonio Sorropago, Italy
  • Dr. Tatyana Storozhenko, Ukraine
  • Dr. Alejandro Travieso, Spain
  • Dr. Edoardo Zancanaro, Germany

EAPCI Membership Pillar 

Pillar Chair: Dr. Jose Maria de la Torre Hernandez (Spain)

Oversees: EAPCI International Affairs & Partnership Committee, EAPCI Online & Communication Committee,  National Cardiac Societies Committee

EAPCI International Affairs & Partnership Committee

  • Chair: Dr. Stefan Harb, Austria
  • Co-Chair: Dr. Sarita Rao, India

Committee Members:

  • Dr. Carla Romina Agatiello, Argentina
  • Prof. Wail Alkashkari, Saudi Arabia
  • Prof. Jin Bae Lee, South Korea
  • Dr. Sonya Burgess, Australia
  • Dr. George Dangas, USA
  • Dr. Anass Maaroufi, Morocco
  • Dr. Evandro Martins Filho, Brasil
  • Prof. Roxana Mehran,  USA
  • Dr. Saeko Takahashi, Japan
  • Ass. Prof. Giuseppe Tarantini, Italy

EAPCI Online & Communication Committee

  • Chair: Dr. Nicola Ryan, Ireland
  • Co-Chair: Ass. Prof. Ali Nazmi Calik, Turkey

Committee Members

  • Dr. Shatha Alalawi, Saudi Arabia
  • Dr. Obayda Azizy, Germany
  • Dr. Pablo Javier Baglioni ,Argentina
  • Dr. Sinjini Biswas, Australia
  • Dr. Fathima Aaysha Cader, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
  • Dr. Claudio Guerreiro, Portugal
  • Dr. Nikolaos Pyrpyris, Greece
  • Dr. Helle Soeholm, Denmark
  • Dr. Alessandro Sticchi, Italy
  • Dr. Marco Toselli, Italy
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EAPCI National Cardiac Societies Committee

  • Chair: Dr. Francesco Saia, Italy
  • Co-Chair: Dr. Michal Hawranek, Poland

Committee Members:

  • Dr. Leonard Simoni, Albania
  • Prof. Mohamed Abed Bouraghda, Algeria
  • Dr. David Baghdasaryan, Armenia
  • Prof. Matthiaz Frick, Austria
  • Dr. Ulvi Mirzoyev, Azerbaijan
  • ProF. Walter Desmet, Belgium
  • Prof. Ibrahim Terzic, Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Prof. Dobrin Vassilev, Bulgaria
  • Prof. Eduard Margetic, Croatia
  • Dr. Kimon Myrianthopoulos, Cyprus
  • Prof. Petr Kala, Czech Republic
  • Dr. Jacob Thomsen Lønborg, Denmark
  • Prof. Ahmed Magdy, Egypt
  • Dr. Hanna Tormilainen, Finland
  • Prof. Eric van Belle, France
  • Prof. Alexander Ghanem, Germany
  • Dr. Georgios Triantis, Greece
  • Dr. Daniel Aradi, Hungary
  • Dr. Ingibjorg J. Gudmundsdottir, Iceland
  • Dr. Stephen O'Connor, Ireland
  • Prof. Sa'ar Minha, Israel
  • Dr. Orazbek Sakhov, Kazakhstan
  • Prof. Erkin Mirrakhimov , Kyrgyzstan
  • Prof. Andrej Erglis, Latvia
  • Dr. Ali El-Sayed, Lebanon
  • Dr. Osama Bheleel, Libya
  • Prof. Giedrius Davidavicius, Lithuania
  • Dr. Robert George Xuereb, Malta
  • Dr. Marije Vis, Netherlands
  • Prof. Jorgo Kostov, North Macedonia 
  • Prof. Olav Magne Leiren, Norway
  • Dr. Rita Calé, Portugal
  • Dr. Lucian Calmac, Romania
  • Dr. Zviad Kereselidze, Republic of Georgia
  • Prof. Shpend Elezi, Republic of Kosovo
  • Prof. Milovan Petrovic, Serbia
  • Dr. Martin Hudec, Slovakia
  • Dr. Matjaz Bunc, Slovenia
  • Dr Belén Cid Alvarez, Spain
  • Dr. Rickard Linder, Sweden
  • Prof. Oliver Gaemperli, Switzerland
  • Dr. Selim Boudiche, Tunisia
  • Prof. Teoman Kilic, Turkey
  • Prof. Maksym Sokolov, Ukraine
  • Prof. David Hildick-Smith, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
  • Dr. Shukhrat Salakhitdinov, Uzbekistan

EAPCI Science & Research Pillar

Chair: Prof. Marco Valgimigli (Switzerland)

Oversees: EAPCI Research Initiatives & Innovation Committee, EAPCI Valvular and Structural Heart Interventions Committee, and EAPCI Scientific Documents Committee

EAPCI Research Initiatives & Innovation Committee

  • Chair: Prof. Giulio Stefanini, Italy
  • Co-Chair: Prof. Piotr Buszman, FESC, Poland

Committee Members

  • Dr. Kamil Bujak, Poland
  • Dr. Marco Gamardella, Italy
  • Dr. Daniele Giacoppo, Italy
  • Dr. Rasha Al Lamee, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
  • Dr. Miguel Nobre Menezes, Portugal
  • Ass. Prof. Raffaele Piccolo, Italy
  • Dr. Francesca Sanguineti, France
  • Dr. Irene Santos-Pardo, Sweden
  • Dr. Jorge Sanz Sanchez,  Spain
  • Ass. Prof. Jolanta Siller-Matula, Austria
  • Dr. Hatice Tolunay, Turkey
  • Dr. Dimitrios Vrachatis, Greece

EAPCI Valvular and Structural Heart Interventions Committee

  • Chair: Prof. Nicole Karam, France
  • Co-Chair: Dr. Fabien Praz, Switzerland

Committee members:

  • Ass. Prof. Marianna Adamo, Italy
  • Ass. Prof. Ole De Backer, Denmark
  • Prof. Ignacio Cruz-Gonzalez, Spain
  • Dr. Joana Delgado Silva, Portugal 
  • Prof. Romain Didier, France
  • Ass. Prof. Julia Grapsa, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
  • Dr. Jose M Montero Cabezas, The Netherlands
  • Prof. Tanja Rudolph, Germany
  • Dr. Eike Philipp Tigges, Germany

EAPCI Scientific Documents Committee

  • Chair: Prof. Felix Mahfoud, Germany
  • Co-Chair: Ass. Prof. Anna Franzone, Italy

Committee Members:

  • Dr. Nicolas Amabile, France
  • Prof. Gianluca Campo, Italy
  • Dr. Nieves Gonzalo Lopez, Spain
  • Dr. Vasileios Panoulas, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
  • Dr. Giovanna Sarno, Sweden
  • Dr. Roberto Scarsini, Italy
  • Ass. Prof. Barbara Elisabeth Stahli, Switzerland
  • Dr. Gabor Toth, Austria
  • Prof. Dirk Westermann, Germany
  • Prof. Wojciech Wojakowski, Poland