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ESC Working Group on Myocardial & Pericardial Diseases


This ESC Working Group has a strong educational commitment, especially to young cardiologists, and tries to expand collaborations with basic scientists as well as non-cardiologist colleagues with a multidisciplinary interest in myocardial and pericardial diseases.

We warmly invite new colleagues to join our Working Group, since there is much work to be done to understand, diagnose and treat this complex but fascinating group of cardiovascular diseases.


Aims

  • To promote and organise epidemiological, clinical, genetic and immunological research in the field of:
    • Cardiomyopathies
    • Myocarditis and inflammatory cardiomyopathies with exclusive cardiac involvement
    • New, unclassified cardiomyopathies
    • Pericardial inflammatory diseases
    • Tumors of the heart and pericardium
    • Myocardial and pericardial involvement in systemic autoimmune or immune-oriented disorders
    • Myocardial involvement in genetic diseases and in rare cardiovascular diseases
  • To promote ESC educational programmes on myocardial and pericardial diseases.
  • To promote the participation of members of the Working group to ESC activities.
  • To promote European research networks and multicenter European translational studies in myocardial and pericardial diseases

Activities

  • To organise educational meetings on thematic topics.
  • To contribute to the organization and preparation of the annual ESC congress and to participate and support other scientific meetings and symposia.
  • To hold regular meetings of the Working Group.
  • To arrange Task Forces dealing with relevant issues and publish appropriate guidelines and recommendations of good clinical practice.

Nucleus 2024-2026

Chairperson

Carsten Tschoepe, Germany

Chairperson-Elect

Andrea Frustaci, Italy

Past-Chairperson

Massimo Imazio, FESC, Italy

Treasurer

Marco Merlo, Italy

Secretary

 Johanna Kuusisto, Finland

Coordinator

Teresa Castiello, UK of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Nucleus Members

  • Antonio Brucato, Italy
  • Sibel Catirli Enar, FESC, Turkiye
  • Alexandros Kasiakogias, Greece
  • Petr Kuchynka, Czechia
  • Domingo Pascual Figal, FESC, Spain
  • Claire Peet, UK of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
  • Rabea Asleh*, FESC, Israel
  • Valentino Collini*, Italy
  • Ahmed Elsanhoury*, Germany
  • Wilhelm Haverkamp*, Germany
  • Emilia Lazarou*, Greece

*non-voting members