EAPC Board, Sections and Nominating Committee Elections 2026-2028

E-Voting is now open!

Voting is now open for the member elections, for the positions of 2026-2028 President-Elect, Secretary, Treasurer, Sections nuclei members, and Nominating Committee members. Check the timelines!

Open positions

Executive Board:
- 1 President-Elect
- 1 Secretary
- 1 Treasurer
Nominating Committee:
- 4 voting members
Section nucleus members:
- 5 Secondary Prevention & Rehabilitation Section nucleus members
- 3 Primary Care & Risk Factor Management Section nucleus members
- 4 Population Science & Public Health Section nucleus members
- 5 Sports Cardiology & Exercise Section nucleus members

E-voting is now open

As a voting member of the EAPC, you are invited to cast your vote between 2 July and 24 July 2026 (23:59 CEST).

Please refer to the email you re

ceived from “Simply Voting” for instructions on how to submit your vote.

Executive Board Candidates

President-elect

Professor Massimo Francesco Piepoli

CV and vision statement

Professor Vassilios Vassiliou

CV and vision statement

Secretary

Associate Professor Flavio D'Ascenzi

CV and vision statement

Assistant Professor Andreas Bernard Gevaert

CV and vision statement

Treasurer

Associate Professor Viviana Maestrini

CV and vision statement

Associate Professor Roberto Franco Enrico Pedretti

CV and vision statement

Nominating Committee Candidates

Voting members

Associate Professor Thijs Eijsvogels

CV and vision statement

Doctor Henner Hanssen

CV and vision statement

Professor Maja-Lisa Lochen

CV and vision statement

Professor Pedro Marques-Vidal

CV and vision statement

Professor Zaneta Petrulioniene

CV and vision statement

Section Nucleus Candidates

Population Science & Public Health

Doctor Marco Bernardi

CV and vision statement

Doctor Benjamin Buckley

CV and vision statement

Doctor Maria Alexandra Ciuca-Pana

CV and vision statement

Associate Professor Michal Czapla

CV and vision statement

Associate Professor Ajar Kocak

CV and vision statement

Professor Donata Kurpas

CV and vision statement

Professor Lukasz Kuzma

CV and vision statement

Professor Riyaz Patel

CV and vision statement

Doctor Annett Salzwedel

CV and vision statement

Doctor Fabian Schwendinger

CV and vision statement

Primary Care & Risk Factor Management

Doctor Maria Bachlitzanaki

CV and vision statement

Professor Ozcan Basaran

CV and vision statement

Assistant Professor Ivana Burazor

CV and vision statement

Associate Professor Elena Cavarretta

CV and vision statement

Mr Christos Fragoulis

CV and vision statement

Assistant Professor Marta German-Sallo

CV and vision statement

Doctor Chahinda Ghossein

CV and vision statement

Professor Lis Neubeck

CV and vision statement

Professor Emeline Van Craenenbroeck

CV and vision statement

Professor Vira Zlatkina

CV and vision statement

Secondary Prevention & Cardiac Rehabilitation

Doctor Buket Akinci

CV and vision statement

Doctor Francesca Battista

CV and vision statement

Doctor Edoardo Conte

CV and vision statement

Doctor Baris Gungor

CV and vision statement

Doctor Steven Hageman

CV and vision statement

Doctor Wendy Hens

CV and vision statement

Assistant Professor Tim Kambic

CV and vision statement

Doctor Sevda Ece Kizilkilic

CV and vision statement

Doctor Svetlana Liliana Mosteoru

CV and vision statement

Associate Professor Jacek T Niedziela

CV and vision statement

Professor Zaneta Petrulioniene

CV and vision statement

Professor Boris Schmitz

CV and vision statement

Doctor Yusuf Ziya Sener

CV and vision statement

Doctor Marjolein Snaterse-Zuidam

CV and vision statement

Mrs Mihaela-Carmen Suceveanu

CV and vision statement

Doctor Nienke Ter Hoeve

CV and vision statement

Professor Arnoud W J van 't Hof

CV and vision statement

Sports Cardiology & Exercise

Doctor Sampath Kumar Amaravadi

CV and vision statement

Doctor Emmanuel Androulakis

CV and vision statement

Associate Professor Pascal Bauer

CV and vision statement

Assistant Professor Francesca Graziano

CV and vision statement

Doctor Sarandeep Marwaha

CV and vision statement

Doctor Sara Monosilio

CV and vision statement

Doctor Marius Myrstad

CV and vision statement

Doctor Marina Ostojic

CV and vision statement

Doctor Tristan Ramcharan

CV and vision statement

Doctor Nathan Riding

CV and vision statement

Professor Frederic Schnell

CV and vision statement

Doctor Daniel Tardo

CV and vision statement

Key dates

3 September 2025 - Voting rights eligibility deadline
3 March 2026 - Call for candidates opens
29 May 2026 - Deadline for candidacies
1–19 June 2026 - Review of candidacies
2–24 July 2026 - e-Voting is open
August 2026 - Announcement of the results at the EAPC General Assembly (ESC Congress 2026, Munich)
September 2026 - Start of 2026–2028 mandate

EAPC Rules of Governance

Rules of governance have now replaced the EAPC constitution (validated by the ESC Board on 25 August 2023). ESC Associations rules of governance are included in Annex V of the ESC Bylaws, approved by ESC Board in December 2024. As a result of a 2-year review as approved by the 2022–2024 ESC Board, they were revised and approved by the ESC Board on 28 August 2025.

The EAPC election application process and voting will be carried out in accordance with the ESC bylaws.

Voting rights

The minimum seniority for EAPC Members to obtain voting rights is 6 months before the opening of the call for application. Only EAPC Members having settled their membership dues by 3 September 2025 (i.e.: 6 months before the call for applications opening on 3 March 2026) and with a valid membership subscription at the time the voting starts (2 July 2026) will have voting rights.

Application process

The call for candidates is now closed. The list of candidates will be published on 2 July 2026.

Eligibility criteria

Only EAPC members originating from an ESC member country with an active EAPC Membership and in good standing, holding voting rights at the date of the opening of the call for applications, are eligible to become a Board, Nominating Committee or Section nucleus member. The minimum seniority for EAPC Members to obtain voting rights is 6 months before the opening of the call for application.
All candidates have to sign the EAPC elections statement, read the candidate code of conduct and submit their Declaration of Interest (DOI) prior to the start of the elections process. If this requirement is not fulfilled, the candidate will not be accepted.
Candidates for the position of President Elect must be a FESC, currently serving or have served in the immediate previous EAPC Board or in the pre-previous Board as voting or appointed members.
Appointed Committee Chairs are eligible for future elected EAPC Board positions, provided that they comply with the other requirements of the Association.
Ex-officio EAPC Board Members are eligible for future executive EAPC Board positions under the condition that they held another position (not as ex-officio) in previous mandates and provided that they comply with the other requirements of the Association.
An EAPC Board member may not hold more than three leadership positions at the same time. Sitting on the nucleus of an ESC Working Group or Council or Association is counted as one leadership position. A candidate who already holds three offices may therefore not stand for election or be proposed as a candidate, except if one of its term of office expires before the additional office term starts.
Candidates for the EAPC Nominating Committee must have served in a preceding EAPC Section.

Individuals not eligible

Representatives from healthcare industry companies are not eligible to EAPC Board positions and Nominating Committee positions.
Members of the current Nominating Committee cannot be candidates for the elections performed under that Nominating Committee’s mandate.

Key reference documents for the elections:

Job description and profiling document for each elected position in the Board and Nominating Committee
Job description and profiling document for the elected positions in the Section Nucleus
ESC statutes
ESC bylaws and EAPC rules of governance (Annexe V of the ESC bylaws)
code of conduct for elections for ESC & ESC Constituent Bodies (Article 7.1 of ESC bylaws
ESC Ethical Conduct Policy (Annexe II of the ESC bylaws)
ESC Declaration and Management of Conflict of Interest Policy (Annexe III of the ESC bylaws)
ESC Gender Policy

For more information, refer to the ESC Bylaws or please contact the EAPC at EAPC@escardio.org