Special Lectures of the ESC

Medical Director of the Department of Internal Medicine/Cardiology at the Heart Center Leipzig at University of Leipzig.

Professor of Bionanoscience at the University of Oxford and part-time Professor at Imperial College London and the Karolinska Institute.

Professor at the University of Bergen, and Haukeland University Hospital.

Memorial lecture for Alain Cribier.

Professor of Cardiology at University College London (UCL) and Director of National Institute for Cardiovascular Outcomes Research (NICOR).

Genetic cardiologist at Ghent University Hospital, Belgium.

Professor of Pathology at the University of Padua, Padova, Italy.

Professor of heart valve innovation at the University of British Columbia and director of interventional cardiology at St Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver.

Professor of nursing science and the vice provost for research and research education at the faculty of medicine and health sciences, Linköping University, Sweden.

Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Senior Physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. 

Professor in cardiology at University Heart Center Hamburg. 

Distinguished Scholar in Cardiovascular Science at Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas and Visiting Professor at Imperial College, London.

Professor of Vascular Biology at the Medical University of Vienna. 

Director of the Cardiovascular Science Program (ICCC) at the IR-Hospital Santa Creu and San Pau, IIBSantPau, Barcelona. 

Chair in Vascular Medicine and Director of the Institute for Cardiovascular Prevention at Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) Munich, and Van de Laar-Professor at the Cardiovascular Research Institute Maastricht (CARIM). 

Professor of Cardiology of the Technische Universität München and Director of the Cardiology Department, German Heart Centre Munich since 2012.

Professor Stefan Neubauer is Head of the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine and Director of the Oxford Centre for Clinical Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, UK. 

Professor of Healthcare and Nursing Science at the University of Leuven, Belgium; the University of Gothenburg, Sweden; and the University of Cape Town in South Africa. 

Recognized globally for expertise in heart failure with mildly reduced and preserved ejection fraction. 

Professor of Cardiology with association to Nordsjaellands Hospital in Hillerød, Denmark and also association with Copenhagen University and Aalborg University.  

 CEO and a Director of Alnylam.

Director of the Research Center of the Italian Association of Hospital Cardiologists (ANMCO) in Florence. 

Chief of Cardiology and Director of the Harry S. Moss Heart Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.

Chief Scientific Officer of Northside Hospital Cardiovascular Institute. 

Professor of Nursing at the University of Cambridge and Cambridge University Hospitals.

Pofessor at Amsterdam University of Amsterdam Medical Centre. 

Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School, USA.

Professor D. Prabhakaran is a cardiologist and epidemiologist by training. He is an internationally renowned researcher and is currently the Vice President- Research & Policy, Public Health Foundation of India and Professor (Epidemiology) London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK and is Chair of the Science Committee of the World Heart Federation. His work spans from mechanistic research to understand the causes for increased propensity of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) among Indians through large longitudinal cohort studies. In addition his work involves development of low cost solutions (such as task shifting, m-Health , quality improvement programs and innovative training programs) that would be applicable globally for CVD prevention. He has mentored over 50 post-doctoral and doctoral students so far. He has authored over 475 scholarly papers with an H index of 83 and published two major text books.

Professor in nursing science at Linköping University, Sweden and the University Medical Centre Utrecht , the Netherlands.

Professor and Associate Director at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, USA. 

Professor at the University of Southern Alabama.

Professor at Mayo Clinic, USA. 

Professor of Cardiology at the University of Edinburgh, UK. 

 Professor of Cardiology at the University of Groningen.

President of the South African Heart Association (2014-2016) and, currently, as President of the World Heart Federation (2019-2020).

Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto, Canada. 

Professor and Chair of Molecular Biology at UT Southwestern Medical Center, USA.

Professor Mensah is Director, Center for Translation Research and Implementation Science at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, a part of the US National Institutes of Health.

Professor of Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine.

Professor of Cardiology at Uppsala University, Scientific Director of Uppsala Clinical Research Center and a senior Interventional Cardiologist at Uppsala University Hospital Sweden. 

Professor of Molecular Cardiogenetics at Amsterdam University Medical Center.

Professor of Cardiology at the University of Pavia, Italy. 

Chair of Cardiology at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. 

Francesco Maisano is the head of the Heart Center and Chair of Cardiovascular Surgery at University Hospital of Zurich. 

Professor of Medicine at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and Director of the Center for Interventional Vascular Therapy (CIVT) at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center. 

Professor of Medicine at McMaster University and cardiologist at Hamilton Health Sciences in Hamilton Ontario Canada. 

Honorary Professor of the Universidad Del Salvador in Buenos Aires and a Senior Consulting Adviser to EuroPCR.

Mondor Biomedical Research Institute, Creteil (France).

Professor of Clinical Epidemiology in the University of Liverpool.

Professor and Head of the Genetics Department at Bichat University Hospital in Paris, and Professor of Medical Genetics at University Paris Diderot.