Committees of the Heart Failure Association of the ESC

Volunteers from the HFA work together towards ambitious goals - producing papers, delivering educational programmes, and supporting the HFA Board in accomplishing the HFA mission. They are the heart of the HFA.

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Meetings take place online as needed and in person during Heart Failure congress.

2024-2026

Committees and Task Forces are composed as follows:

General Committees

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI)

Member Role	Name	Country
Chairperson	Brenda Moura	Portugal
Co-Chairperson	Alejandro Recio Mayoral	Spain
Committee member	Concetta Di Nora	Italy
Committee member	Angela Durante	Italy
Committee member	Ekaterini Lambrinou	Cyprus
Committee member	Amina Rakisheva	Kazakhstan
Committee member	Novi Yanti Sari	Indonesia
Committee member	Dilek Ural	Turkiye
Committee member	Chic Wong	UK of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Education

Member Role	Name	Country
Chairperson	Wilfried Mullens	Belgium
Co-Chairperson	Marianna Adamo	Italy
Committee member	Feras Bader	United Arab Emirates
Committee member	Antonio Bayes-Genis	Spain
Committee member	Maja Cikes	Croatia
Committee member	Rudolf De Boer	Netherlands (The)
Committee member	Roy Stuart Gardner	UK of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Committee member	Nicolas Girerd	France
Committee member	Finn Gustafsson	Denmark
Committee member	Maggie Simpson	UK of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Committee member	Stefan Stoerk	Germany
Committee member	Izabelle Uchmanowicz	Poland

Certification Task Force

Member Role	Name	Country
Chairperson	Wilfried Mullens	Belgium
Co-Chairperson	Marianna Adamo	Italy
Task Force member	Amr Abdin	Germany
Task Force member	Henrike Arfsten	Austria
Task Force member	Johann Bauersachs	Germany
Task Force member	Attila Borbely	Hungary
Task Force member	Antonio Cannata	UK of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Task Force member	Oren Caspi	Israel
Task Force member	Tiny Jaarsma	Sweden
Task Force member	Sotiria Liori	Greece
Task Force member	Nathan Mewton	France
Task Force member	Anja Zupan Meznar	Slovenia
Task Force member	Luca Monzo	France
Task Force member	Frank Ruschitzka	Switzerland
Task Force member	Mateusz Sokolski	Poland
Task Force member	Frederik Hendrik Verbrugge	Belgium

Heart Failure Matters

Member Role	Name	Country
Chairperson	Stefan Stoerk	Germany
Co-Chairperson	Kenneth Dickstein	Norway
Committee member	Michela Barisone	Italy
Committee member	Tiny Jaarsma	Sweden
Committee member	Emmanouil Kampanieris	Greece
Committee member	Mitja Lainsca	Slovenia
Committee member	Michal Laufer-Perl	Israel
Committee member	Maggie Simpson	UK of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Committee member	Hadi Skouri	Lebanon
Committee member	Mucio Tavares de Oliveira Junior	Brazil
Committee member	Styliani Vakrou	UK of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Committee member (patient)	Michael Madigan	Ireland

ICARe-HF (Quality of Care Centres)

Member Role	Name	Country
Chairperson	Maurizio Volterrani	Italy
Co-Chairperson	Ovidiu Chioncel	Romania
Committee member	Michela Barisone	Italy
Committee member	Maria Generosa Crespo-Leiro	Spain
Committee member	Mitja Lainscak	Slovenia

ICARe-HF Application review Task Force

Member Role	Name	Country
Chairperson	Maurizio Volterrani	Italy
Co-Chairperson	Ovidiu Chioncel	Romania
Task Force member	Elena-Laura Antohi	Romania
Task Force member	Vassilis Barberis	Cyprus
Task Force member	Ahmet Celik	Turkiye
Task Force member	Alberto Esteban Fernandez	Spain
Task Force member	Duska Glavas	Croatia
Task Force member	Milan Gluhovic	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Task Force member	Mitja Lainscak	Slovenia
Task Force member	Anna Stromberg	Sweden

Nominating Committee (elected)

Member Role	Name	Country
Committee member	Maria Generosa Crespo-Leiro	Spain
Committee member	Rudolf De Boer	Netherlands (The)
Committee member	Cecilia Linde	Sweden
Committee member	Alexander Lyon	UK of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Committee member	Christoph Maack	Germany

Young

Member Role	Name	Country
Chairperson	Jozine Ter Maaten	Netherlands (The)
Co-Chairperson	Henrike Arfsten	Austria
Committee member	Emanuele Bobbio	Sweden
Committee member	Felix Lindberg	Sweden
Committee member	Sotiria Liori	Greece
Committee member	Cornelia Margineanu	Romania
Committee member	Floran Sahiti	Germany
Committee member	Novi Yanti Sari	Indonesia
Committee member	Justyna Sokolska	Poland
Committee member	Gregorio Tersalvi	Switzerland
Committee member	Daniela Tomasoni	Italy
Committee member	Robert Mathew Anthony Van Der Boon	Netherlands (The)

Scientific Committees

Cluster 1 - Prevention, Diagnosis & Comorbidities

Atrial Disorders

Member Role	Name	Country
Chairperson	Antonio Bayes Genis	Spain
Co-Chairperson	Wojciech Kosmala	Poland
Committee member	Massimiliano Camilli	Italy
Committee member	Emilia D'Elia	Italy
Committee member	Jean-Sebastien Hulot	France
Committee member	Massimo Iacoviello	Italy
Committee member	Nicolo Sisti	Italy
Committee member	Otilia Tica	Romania
Committee member	Mariya Tokmakova	Bulgaria
Committee member	Jef Van den Eynde	Belgium
Committee member	Jerremy Weerts	Netherlands (The)
Committee member	Rosita Zakeri	UK of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Cardio-Oncology

Member Role	Name	Country
Chairperson	Carlo Gabriele Tocchetti	Italy
Co-Chairperson	Markus Anker	Germany
Committee member	Antonio Cannata	UK of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Committee member	Gerasimos Filippatos	Greece
Committee member	Michal Laufer-Perl	Israel
Committee member	Valentina Mercurio	Italy
Committee member	Pedro Moliner	Spain
Committee member	Peter Rainer	Austria
Committee member	Yusuf Ziya Sener	Turkiye
Committee member	Sophie Van Linthout	Germany
Committee member	Stephan von Haehling	Germany
Committee member	Israa Fadhil Yaseen	Iraq

Cardio-Renal diseases

Member Role	Name	Country
Chairperson	Jan Biegus	Poland
Committee member	Guillaume Baudry	France
Committee member	Biykem Bozkurt	United States of America
Committee member	Marta Cobo Marcos	Spain
Committee member	Jeroen Dauw	Belgium
Committee member	Mateusz Guzik	Poland
Committee member	Gracjan Iwanek	Poland
Committee member	Masatake Kobayashi	Japan
Committee member	Juan Carlos Lopez Azor	Spain
Committee member	Oscar Miro	Spain
Committee member	Peder Langeland Myhre	Norway
Committee member	Alberto Palazzuoli	Italy

Coronary Artery Disease

Member Role	Name	Country
Chairperson	Mark Petrie	UK of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Co-Chairperson	Stephan von Haehling	Germany
Committee member	Giuseppe Ambrosio	Italy
Committee member	Gani Bajraktari	Kosovo Republic of
Committee member	Josip Andjelo Borovac	Croatia
Committee member	Alexander Fardman	Israel
Committee member	Antonio Iaconelli	UK of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Committee member	Matthew M Y Lee	UK of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Committee member	Elmir Omerovic	Sweden
Committee member	Michal Tkaczyszyn	Poland
Committee member	Alessandro Villaschi	Italy
Committee member	Sven Wassmann	Germany

Digital Health & Telemonitoring

Member Role	Name	Country
Chairperson	Maurizio Volterrani	Italy
Co-Chairperson	Andreas Flammer	Switzerland
Committee member	Domenico D'Amario	Italy
Committee member	Anastasia Egorova	Netherlands (The)
Committee member	Loreena Hill	UK of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Committee member	Ekaterini Lambrinou	Cyprus
Committee member	Carlo Mario Lombardi	Italy
Committee member	Juan Carlos Lopez Azor	Spain
Committee member	Dean Nachman	Israel
Committee member	Ewa Piotrowicz	Poland
Committee member	Rajiv Sankaranarayanan	UK of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Committee member	Mark Schuuring	Netherlands (The)

Exercise Physiology & Training

Member Role	Name	Country
Chairperson	Alain Cohen-Solal	France
Co-Chairperson	Stamatis Adamopoulos	Greece
Committee member	Abraham Samuel Babu	India
Committee member	Giuseppe Caminiti	Italy
Committee member	Concetta Di Nora	Italy
Committee member	Martha Kyriakou	Cyprus
Committee member	Elena Marques-Sule	Spain
Committee member	Marco Masetti	Italy
Committee member	Stefania Paolillo	Italy
Committee member	Marco Alfonso Perrone	Italy
Committee member	Ewa Piotrowicz	Poland
Committee member	Andrea Salzano	Italy

Frailty & Cachexia

Member Role	Name	Country
Chairperson	Camilla Hage	Sweden
Co-Chairperson	Cristiana Vitale	UK of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Committee member	Markus Anker	Germany
Committee member	Emmanuelle Berthelot	France
Committee member	Pablo Diez Villanueva	Spain
Committee member	Wolfram Doehner	Germany
Committee member	Gabriele Fragasso	Italy
Committee member	Elena Marques-Sule	Spain
Committee member	Angela Sciacqua	Italy
Committee member	Anna Stromberg	Sweden
Committee member	Shirley Sze	UK of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Committee member	Izabella Uchmanowicz	Poland

Heart & Brain

Member Role	Name	Country
Chairperson	Jelena Celutkiene	Lithuania
Co-Chairperson	Loreena Hill	UK of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Committee member	Rusudan Agladze	Georgia
Committee member	Abdallah Almaghraby	Egypt
Committee member	Gani Bajraktari	Kosovo Republic of
Committee member	Larisa Dizdarevic-Hudic	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Committee member	Wolfram Doehner	Germany
Committee member	Attila Frigy	Romania
Committee member	Duska Glavas	Croatia
Committee member	Tarik Kivrak	Turkiye
Committee member	Sotiria Liori	Greece
Committee member	Konstantinos Stellos	Germany

HFmrEF & HFpEF

Member Role	Name	Country
Chairperson	Michele Senni	Italy
Co-Chairperson	Mark Petrie	UK of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Committee member	Claudia Baratto	Italy
Committee member	Larisa Dizdarevic-Hudic	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Committee member	Marat Fudim	United States of America
Committee member	Camilla Hage	Sweden
Committee member	Lars Lund	Sweden
Committee member	Christopher Miller	UK of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Committee member	Carsten Tschoepe	Germany
Committee member	Vanessa van Empel	Netherlands (The)
Committee member	Frederik Hendrik Verbrugge	Belgium
Committee member	Rosita Zakeri	UK of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Imaging & Biomarkers

Member Role	Name	Country
Chairperson	Julio Nunez Villota	Spain
Co-Chairperson	Peter Van Der Meer	Netherlands (The)
Committee member	Antonio Bayes Genis	Spain
Committee member	Rafael Eduardo de la Espriella-Juan	Spain
Committee member	Kieran Docherty	UK of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Committee member	Brian Halliday	UK of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Committee member	Kalliopi Keramida	Greece
Committee member	Francesca Musella	Italy
Committee member	Peder Langeland Myhre	Norway
Committee member	Pierpaolo Pellicori	UK of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Committee member	Justyna Sokolska	Poland
Committee member	Clare J Taylor	UK of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Lung, Sleep & Pulmonary Hypertension

Member Role	Name	Country
Chairperson	Stephan Rosenkranz	Germany
Co-Chairperson	Offer Amir	Israel
Committee member	Fabrice Bauer	France
Committee member	Sergio Caravita	Italy
Committee member	Ahmet Celik	Turkiye
Committee member	Alberto Maria Marra	Italy
Committee member	Valentina Mercurio	italy
Committee member	Dean Nachman	Israel
Committee member	Alejandro Recio Mayoral	Spain
Committee member	Karl-Philipp Rommel	Germany
Committee member	Anil Sahin	Turkiye

Obesity & Metabolic diseases

Member Role	Name	Country
Chairperson	Nicolas Girerd	France
Co-Chairperson	Gianluigi Savarese	Sweden
Committee member	Elena-Laura Antohi	Romania
Committee member	Biykem Bozkurt	United States of America
Committee member	Seif El Hadidi	Egypt
Committee member	Massimo Iacoviello	Italy
Committee member	Ewa Anita Jankowska	Poland
Committee member	Matthew M Y Lee	UK of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Committee member	Luca Monzo	France
Committee member	Gabriele Giacomo Schiattarella	Germany
Committee member	Thomas Gorter	Netherlands (The)
Committee member	Elke Platz	United States of America

Prevention

Member Role	Name	Country
Chairperson	Massimo Francesco Piepoli	italy
Co-Chairperson	Amina Rakisheva	Kazakhstan
Committee member	Andrea Attanasio	Italy
Committee member	Peter Moritz Becher	Germany
Committee member	Giandomenico Disabato	Italy
Committee member	Kieran Docherty	UK of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Committee member	Gianluigi Guida	Italy
Committee member	Claire Lawson	UK of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Committee member	Najat Mouine	Morocco
Committee member	Christina Paitazoglou	Germany
Committee member	Stefania Paolillo	Italy
Committee member	Clare J Taylor	UK of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Cluster 2 - Acute Heart Failure, Advanced Heart Failure & Devices

Acute Heart Failure (incl. Takotsubo)

Member Role	Name	Country
Chairperson	Mehmet Birhen Yilmaz	Turkiye
Co-Chairperson	Dana Dawson	UK of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Committee member	Jan Biegus	Poland
Committee member	Rodolfo Citro	Italy
Committee member	Oliviana Geavlete	Romania
Committee member	Federica Guidetti	Sweden
Committee member	Chris Kapelios	Greece
Committee member	Hoong Sern Lim	UK of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Committee member	Oscar Miro	Spain
Committee member	Elmir Omerovic	Sweden
Committee member	Matteo Pagnesi	Italy
Committee member	Jozine Ter Maaten	Netherlands (The)

Advanced Heart Failure

Member Role	Name	Country
Chairperson	Kevin Damman	Netherlands (The)
Co-Chairperson	Finn Gustafsson	Denmark
Committee member	Guillaume Baudry	France
Committee member	Tuvia Ben Gal	Israel
Committee member	Michael Bonios	Greece
Committee member	Maria Generosa Crespo-Leiro	Spain
Committee member	Attilio Iacovoni	Italy
Committee member	Emer Joyce	Ireland
Committee member	Chris Kapelios	Greece
Committee member	Hoong Sern Lim	UK of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Committee member	Felix Schoenrath	Germany
Committee member	Hadi Skouri	Lebanon

Cardiac Devices

Member Role	Name	Country
Chairperson	Maja Cikes	Croatia
Co-Chairperson	Klaus Witte	Germany
Committee member	Jesus Alvarez-Garcia	Spain
Committee member	Anastasia Egorova	Netherlands (The)
Committee member	Marat Fudim	United States of America
Committee member	Roy Stuart Gardner	UK of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Committee member	Jose Gonzalez-Costello	Spain
Committee member	Federica Guidetti	Sweden
Committee member	Nathan Mewton	France
Committee member	Ivo Planinc	Croatia
Committee member	Nicolo Sisti	Italy
Committee member	Anja Zupan Meznar	Slovenia

Cluster 3 - Structural Heart Disease

Cardiac Amyloidosis

Member Role	Name	Country
Chairperson	Pablo Garcia-Pavia	Spain
Co-Chairperson	Gianfranco Sinagra	Italy
Committee member	Alberto Aimo	Italy
Committee member	Fernando Dominguez	Spain
Committee member	Ruxandra Oana Jurcut	Romania
Committee member	Karin Klingel	Germany
Committee member	Christian Knackstedt	Netherlands (The)
Committee member	Marco Merlo	Italy
Committee member	Ewa Straburzynska-Migaj	Poland
Committee member	Michal Tkaczyszyn	Poland
Committee member	Daniela Tomasoni	Italy

Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

Member Role	Name	Country
Chairperson	Iacopo Olivotto	Italy
Co-Chairperson	Caroline Coats	UK of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Committee member	Alberto Aimo	Italy
Committee member	Anna Chaloupka	Czechia
Committee member	Giuseppe Galati	Italy
Committee member	Pablo Garcia-Pavia	Spain
Committee member	Pieter Martens	Belgium
Committee member	Caroline Morbach	Germany
Committee member	Massimo Francesco Piepoli	Italy
Committee member	Maria Teresa Tome Esteban	UK of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Inflammatory Cardiomyopathies

Member Role	Name	Country
Chairperson	Marija Polovina	Serbia
Co-Chairperson	Carsten Tschoepe	Germany
Committee member	Enrico Ammirati	Italy
Committee member	Teresa Castiello	UK of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Committee member	Giuseppe Di Stolfo	Italy
Committee member	Ahmed Elsanhoury	Germany
Committee member	Stephane Heymans	Netherlands (The)
Committee member	Andre Keren	Israel
Committee member	Karin Klingel	Germany
Committee member	Pawel Rubis	Poland
Committee member	Sophie Van Linthout	Germany
Committee member	Markus Wallner	Austria

Inherited Dilated Cardiomyopathies

Member Role	Name	Country
Chairperson	Marco Merlo	Italy
Co-Chairperson	Rudolf De Boer	Netherlands (The)
Committee member	Anna Chaloupka	Czechia
Committee member	Bethan Cowley	UK of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Committee member	Fernando Dominguez	Spain
Committee member	Piero Gentile	Italy
Committee member	Brian Halliday	UK of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Committee member	Stephane Heymans	Netherlands (The)
Committee member	Ruxandra Oana Jurcut	Romania
Committee member	Francesca Musella	Italy
Committee member	Anja Zupan Meznar	Slovenia

Pericarditis

Member Role	Name	Country
Chairperson	Arsen Ristic	Serbia
Co-Chairperson	Massimo Imazio	Italy
Committee member	Emanuele Bobbio	Sweden
Committee member	Daniel Bromage	UK of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Committee member	Oliviana Geavlete	Romania
Committee member	Stefania Rosmini	UK of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Committee member	Mehmet Birhan Yilmaz	Turkiye

Pregnancy

Member Role	Name	Country
Chairperson	Karen Sliwa	South Africa
Co-Chairperson	Johann Bauersachs	Germany
Committee member	Bethan Cowley	UK of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Committee member	Antonio de Marvao	UK of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Committee member	Francesca Macera	Italy
Committee member	Amam Chinyere Mbakwem	Nigeria
Committee member	Luca Sensini	Italy
Committee member	Job Verdonschot	Netherlands (The)

Valvular Heart Disease

Member Role	Name	Country
Chairperson	Matteo Pagnesi	Italy
Committee member	Magdy Abdelhamid	Egypt
Committee member	Marianna Adamo	Italy
Committee member	Elena-Laura Antohi	Romania
Committee member	Henrike Arfsten	Austria
Committee member	Vassilis Barberis	Cyprus
Committee member	Julia Grapsa	UK of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Committee member	Nicole Karam	France
Committee member	Francesco Maisano	Italy
Committee member	Denisa Muraru	Italy
Committee member	Karl-Philipp Rommel	Germany
Committee member	Anna Sannino	Italy

Cluster 4 - Basic & Translational

Basic & Translational Research

Member Role	Name	Country
Chairperson	Arantxa Gonzalez Miqueo	Spain
Co-Chairperson	Dana Dawson	UK of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Committee member	Pietro Ameri	Italy
Committee member	Edoardo Bertero	Italy
Committee member	Daniel Bromage	UK of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Committee member	Oren Caspi	Israel
Committee member	Michele Ciccarelli	Italy
Committee member	Alessandra Cuomo	Italy
Committee member	Ines Falcao-Pires	Portugal
Committee member	Alessandra Ghigo	Italy
Committee member	Gracjan Iwanek	Poland
Committee member	Carlo Gabriele Tocchetti	Italy

Pharmacology & Pharmacotherapy

Member Role	Name	Country
Chairperson	Gianluigi Savarese	Sweden
Co-chairperson	Magdy Abdelhamid	Egypt
Committee member	Amr Abdin	Germany
Committee member	Giuseppe Ambrosio	Italy
Committee member	Antonio Cannata	UK of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Committee member	Ovidiu Chioncel	Romania
Committee member	Ahmed Elsanhoury	Germany
Committee member	Alberto Esteban Fernandez	Spain
Committee member	Riccardo Maria Inciardi	Italy
Committee member	Pardeep Jhund	UK of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Committee member	Felix Lindberg	Sweden
Committee member	Davide Stolfo	Italy

2026-2028

Interested in joining a committee for next mandate starting in September 2026?

A call for application will be sent to HFA members (Silver, Gold and Fellow) between spring and summer 2026.

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