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EHRA Committees

European Heart Rhythm Association

 

Committees

Certification Committee

Position Name Country
Chair Dr. Andreu Porta-Sanchez Spain
Co-Chair Dr. Malcolm Finlay UK
Co-Chair (LAHRS representative) Dr. Mauricio Abello, FESC Argentina
Co-Chair EP Subcommittee (Physicians and Allied Professionals) Prof. Daniel Steven  Germany
Member Dr. Samuel Baldinger Switzerland
Member Assoc. Prof. Pawel Derejko         Poland
Member Dr. Gonca Suna UK
Member Dr. Martin Hemels, FESC, FEHRA Netherlands
Member Dr. Konstantinos Letsas, FEHRA     Greece
Member Dr. Gregoire Massoullie         France
Member Assoc. Prof. Andrea Mazzanti          Italy
Member Dr. Emin Evren Ozcan        Turkey
Member Prof. Hikmet Yorgun         Turkey
Member Miss Sarah Whittaker-Axon UK
Co-Chair CP Subcommittee (Physicians and Allied Professionals) Prof. Christof Kolb  Germany
Member Dr Tomás Datino        Spain
Member Dr. Anastasia  Egorova, FESC     Netherlands
Member Dr. Csaba Laszlo Foldesi, FESC         Hungary
Member Dr. Cristina Martin-Sierra Spain
Member Dr. Francisco Moscoso Costa, FESC       Portugal
Member Dr. Hielko Pieter Johan Miljoen          Belgium
Member Dr Daniel Rodriguez Munoz, FESC     Spain
Member Dr. Pierre Ollitrault  France
Member Dr. Tilman Perrin    Switzerland
Member Dr. Manuel Sanchez Garcia          Spain
Member Dr. Charles Slater Brazil
Member Dr. Serge Alexander Trines, FESC, FEHRA   Netherlands

Selection Committee

Position Name Country
Chair Dr. Nikolaos Dagres, FEHRA Germany
Co-Chair Dr. Tom De Potter, FEHRA Belgium
Member Dr. Fernando Arribas Spain
Member  Prof. Tosho Balabanski Bulgaria
Member Dr. Jonathan Behar, FEHRA UK
Member Assoc. Prof. Rasmus Borgquist, FESC Sweden
Member Dr. Laure Champ-Rigot France
Member Dr. Lucas Fiedler, FESC Austria
Member Dr. Pietro Francia  Italy
Member  Dr. Mihaela Grecu, FESC  Romania
Member Dr. Barbara Kommata Sweden
Member  Prof. Christian Wolpert, FESC Germany

Education Committee

Position Name Country
Chair Dr. Marta de Riva Silva Netherlands
Co-Chair Prof. Philipp Sommer, FESC, FEHRA     Germany
Member  Prof. Christian de Chillou       France
Member  Dr. Micaela Ebert         Germany
Member  Prof. Gabriel Laurent          France
Member  Assoc. Prof. Raphael Martins         France
Member  Prof. Lluis Mont, FESC, FEHRA     Spain
Member  Dr. Paweł Moskal         Poland
Member Prof. Eric Schulze-Bahr         Germany
Member Dr. Afzal Sohaib, FESC         UK
Member Dr. Rachel Ter Bekke         Netherlands
Member Dr. Kevin Vernooy, FESC, FEHRA Netherlands

 National Cardiac Societies Committee

Position Name Country
Chair  Dr. Michal Farkowski      Poland
Co-Chair Prof. Daniel Scherr, FEHRA, FESC     Austria
Member Assoc. Prof. Ayan Abdrakhmanov, FEHRA, FESC     Kazakhstan 
Member Assoc. Prof. Jakub Baran      Poland
Member Prof. Giovanni Luca Botto, FEHRA, FESC Italy
Member Prof. Sabri Demircan Turkey
Member Prof. Thomas Deneke       Germany
Member Prof. Moti Haim, FEHRA, FESC    Israel
Member  Dr. Vassil Traykov, FEHRA, FESC      Bulgaria
Member  Dr. Ivo Roca Luque, FEHRA, FESC     Spain 
Member Assoc. Prof. Sonia Marrakchi     Tunisia
Member  Dr. Nikola Pavlovic, FEHRA, FESC   Croatia
Member Dr. Olivier Piot, FESC France
Member  Prof. Renate Schnabel         Germany

Young Electrophysiologists Committee

Position Name Country
Chair Dr. Katarzyna Malaczynska-Rajpold United Kingdom
Co-Chair Dr. Martin Manninger Austria
Member  Dr. Raquel Adelino  Spain
Member Dr. Emilia Goanta    Romania
Member  Dr. Henrike Hillmann Germany
Member  Dr. Tomasz Jadczyk Poland
Member  Dr. Bart Mulder, FEHRA      Netherlands
Member  Dr. Martina Nesti   Italy
Member Dr Konstantinos Triantafyllou Greece
Member Dr. Ivan Zeljkovic   Croatia

International Affairs Committee

Position Name Country
Chair Prof. Gregory YH Lip, FESC, FEHRA       UK
Co-Chair Prof. Jan Steffel, FESC, FEHRA Switzerland
Member Dr. Kumar Naranayan   India
Member Dr. Sotirios Nedios Germany

Patient Committee

Position Name Country
Chair Prof. Jean Claude Deharo, FESC France
Co-Chair Dr. Francisco Moscoso Costa, FESC Portugal
Member Assoc. Prof. Matteo Anselmino Italy
Member Prof. Matthias Antz, FESC, FEHRA Germany
Member Dr. Emmanouil Charitakis, FEHRA Sweden
Member Dr. Michal Chudzik Poland
Member Dr. Silvia Ribeiro Portugal
Member Assoc. Prof. Gabor Szeplaki, FESC, FEHRA Ireland
Patient Axel Verstrael Belgium
Patient Sharon MacDonald UK

EHRA mHealth and Health Economics and PROM Committee

Position Name Country
Chair Prof. Giuseppe Boriani, FESC, FEHRA Italy
Member Prof. Frieder Braunschweig, FESC Sweden
Member Prof. Ruben Casado-Arroyo, FESC   Belgium
Member Prof. Francisco Leyva UK
Member Dr. Maura Zylla    Germany

Digital and e-Communication Committee

Position Name Country
Chair Prof. David Duncker, FESC, FEHRA Germany
e-Communication Co-Chair Dr. Rodrigue Garcia  France
Member Dr. Aapo Aro Finland
Member Dr. Priya Bhardwaj Denmark
Member  Assoc. Prof. Federico Guerra, FESC, FEHRA      Italy
Member  Dr. Stefan Simovic Serbia
Member Dr. Anthony Li UK
Member Prof. Dominik Linz, FEHRA    Netherlands
Member Dr. Victor Waldmann France
Digital Co-Chair Dr. Emma Svennberg, FESC, FEHRA        Sweden
Member Dr. Soeren Zoega Diederichsen              Denmark
Member Dr. Sharon Man           UK
Member Dr. Roman Piotrowski         Poland
Member Dr. Fleur Tjong         Netherlands
Member Dr. Philippe Vanduynhoven Belgium

Advocacy & Quality Improvement Committee (AQIC)

Position Name Country
Chair Assoc. Prof. Elena Arbelo, FESC     Spain
Co-Chair Assoc. Prof. Tatjana Potpara, FESC   Serbia
Member Dr. Amr Abdin, FESC, FEHRA Germany
Member Prof. Amitava Banerjee, FESC UK
Member Dr. Angeliki Darma     Germany
Member  Prof. Michael Glikson, FESC     Israel
Member Prof. Gerhard Hindricks, FESC, FEHRA Germany
Member Prof. Deirdre Lane, FESC UK
Member Assoc. Prof. Ignacio Fernández Lozano , FESC Spain
Member Dr. Miroslav Mihajlovic Serbia
Member Dr. Pieter Postema Netherlands
Member Dr. Georgia Sarquella Brugada Spain
Member Prof. Maciej Sterliński    Poland
Member Dr. Mauro Toniolo Italy

Scientific Initiatives Committee

Position Name Country
Chair Prof. Julian Chun, FEHRA Germany
Co-Chair Dr. Sergio Castrejon Spain
Member Dr. Ante Anic Croatia
Member  Prof. Giulio Conte Switzerland
Member  Assoc. Prof. Piotr Futyma, FESC, FEHRA Poland
Member  Prof. Andreas Metzner Germany
Member  Prof. Federico Migliore,  FESC, FEHRA Italy
Member  Dr. Giacomo Mugnai         Italy
Member Dr. Diego Penela Spain
Member  Dr. Laura Perrotta, FEHRA  Italy
Member Dr. Rui Providencia   UK
Member  Prof. Sergio Richter     Germany
Member  Prof. Laurent Roten       Switzerland
Member  Assoc. Prof. Arian Sultan, FEHRA    Germany

Scientific Documents Committee

Position Name Country
Chair Prof. Katja  Zeppenfeld, FESC, FEHRA Netherlands
Co-Chair Prof. Jens Cosedis Nielsen, FESC, FEHRA Denmark
Member Prof. Isabel Deisenhofer         Germany
Member  Dr. Luigi di Biase, FESC   Italy
Member  Prof. Kristina Hermann Haugaa, FESC, FEHRA Norway
Member  Dr. Daniel Keene UK
Member  Prof. Christian Meyer, FESC, FEHRA Germany
Member  Prof. Petr Peichel       Czechia
Member  Prof. Silvia Priori, FESC   Italy
Member Dr. Alireza Sepehri Shamloo Germany
Member  Prof. Markus Stühlinger, FEHRA    Austria
Member  Prof. Jacob Tfelt Hansen, Denmark Denmark
Member Prof. Arthur Wilde, FESC     Netherlands

Congress Scientific Programme Committee

Position Name Country
Chair Prof. Serge Boveda, FEHRA, FESC France
Co-Chair Prof. Andrea Sarkozy, FEHRA  Belgium
Member Prof. Mervat Abou El Maaty, FESC Egypt
Member  Dr. Angel Arenal          Spain
Member  Dr. Fernando Arribas          Spain
Member  Prof. Angelo Auricchio, FESC, FEHRA  Switzerland
Member  Prof. Elijah Behr, FESC  UK
Member  Prof Carina Blomstrom-Lundqvist, FESC  Sweden
Member  Prof Lucas Boersma, FESC, FEHRA    Netherlands
Member  Dr. Giovanni Luca Botto, FESC, FEHRA   Italy
Member  Dr. Michele Brignole, FESC  Italy
Member  Dr. David Calvo         Spain
Member  Prof. John Camm, FESC, EFEHRA  UK
Member  Prof. Julian Chun, FEHRA  Germany
Member  Prof. Carlo de Asmundis, FESC   Belgium
Member  Dr. Tom De Potter          Belgium
Member  Dr. Marta De Riva Silva  Netherlands
Member  Dr Luigi Di Biase, FESC    Italy
Member  Prof. Pascal Defaye, FEHRA   France
Member  Prof. Jean Claude Deharo, FESC  France
Member  Prof. Isabel Deisenhofer         Germany
Member  Prof. David Duncker, FEHRA, FESC   Germany
Member  Prof. Mattias Duytschaever        Belgium
Member  Prof. Sabine Ernst, FESC   UK
Member Dr. Michal Farkowski     Poland
Member  Prof. Laszlo Alajos Geller, FESC  Hungary
Member  Dr. Maria Cecilia Gonzalez        UK
Member  Dr. José Guerra Ramos        Spain
Member  Prof. Kristina Hermann Haugaa, FESC  Norway
Member Prof. Gerhard Hindricks, FESC, FEHRA  Germany
Member  Prof. Pierre Jais         France
Member  Prof. Eloi Marijon, FESC  France
Member  Prof. Mario Martins Oliveira, FESC, FEHRA  Portugal
Member  Assoc. Prof. Petr Peichl         Czechia
Member  Dr. Moises Rodriguez-Mañero         Spain
Member  Prof. Richard Schilling  UK
Member  Prof. Jan Steffel, FESC, FEHRA     Switzerland
Member  Dr. Stylianos Tzeis, FEHRA     Greece
Member  Dr. Emma Svennberg, FESC, FEHRA Sweden
Member  Prof. Jacob Tfelt-Hansen         Denmark
Member  Dr. Bruno Valente         Portugal
Member  Prof. Hikmet Yorgun         Turkey
Member  Dr. Francesco Zanon, FEHRA     Italy
Member  Prof. Katja Zeppenfeld, FEHRA, FESC   Netherlands

Nominating Committee

Position Name Country
Chair Prof. Christophe Leclercq FESC, FEHRA France
Member  Prof. Laurent Fauchier, FESC France
Member  Dr. Hussam Ali, FESC, FEHRA Italy
Member  Dr. Georges H. Mairesse, FESC, FEHRA Belgium
Member  Dr. Angel Moya I Mitjans, FESC Spain
Member  Dr. Michael Spartalis, FESC, FEHRA Greece

 

The European Cardiac Arrhythmia Genetics Focus Group (ECGen) of EHRA 

Position Name Country
Chair Prof. Elijah Behr UK
Vice-Chair Dr. Lia Crotti Italy
Member  Dr. Giulio Conte Italy
Member  Prof. Eric Schulze-Bahr Germany
Member  Prof. Jacob Tfelt-Hansen Denmark
Member  Prof. Arthur Wilde Netherlands
Member Dr. Nynke Hofman Netherlands
Member Dr. Georgia Sarquella Brugada Spain
Member Dr. Irina Rudaka Latvia
Member Assoc. Prof. Carol Ann Remme  Netherlands
Member Mrs. Georgiana Neculau  UK

EHRA committee member obligations

EHRA committee members who fail to meet these established minimum obligations may be asked to step down:

  • Attend a minimum of 50% of EHRA committee meetings (in person, via telephone, online)
  • Deliver at least 75% of their assigned tasks within three weeks of the deadlines

For information on EHRA activities, please contact us.


 
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