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FACULTY BIOGRAPHIES 15h & 16th October 2018 6th edition Nice France Heart Failure Guidelines Forum Better understand the Heart failure guidelinesGUIDELINES developmentGUIDELINES process FORUM by FORUM by HEART FAILURE and its implicationsHEART FAILURE GUIDELINES GUIDELINES FORUM by FORUM by PRIMARY HYPERTENSION PRIMARY HYPERTENSION GUIDELINES GUIDELINES FORUM by FORUM by COPD 1 HFGFCOPD GUIDELINES GUIDELINES CONTENTS FORUM by FORUM by LIPIDS LIPIDS Clinical practice guidelines and arise as a result of a rapidly changing associated implementation strategies clinical landscape and attempts at are essential to promote optimal, addressing unmet clinical needs. evidence-based practices in heart failure prevention and management. The Guidelines Forum on While current practice guidelines Heart Failure aims to gather a are generally in agreement, specific multidisciplinary panel of leading recommendations may differ, academic international experts and reflecting diverging interpretations industry representatives involved in of the available evidence or the basic and clinical research to discuss lack of sufficient data to make the latest evidence, ongoing research evidence-based recommendations. and controversial issues that have In addition, a number of questions implications for clinical practice. Heart Failure Guidelines Forum Chairs .........................................................................................................................3 Better understand the Heart failure Faculty Members .................................................................................................7 guidelines development process EMA representatives ......................................................................................25 and its implications 2 CONTENTS Guidelines Forum CHAIRS 3 Stefan D. Anker MD, PhD, FESC Contact: Charité Campus CVK, Division of Cardiology & Metabolism, Dept of Cardiology & BCRT, Augustenburger Platz 1, D-13353 Berlin, Germany. Stefan D. Anker is Professor of (Tissue)Homeos- Dr. Anker was Vice President of the European tasis in Cardiology & Metabolism (W3) at Cha- Society of Cardiology (ESC, 2016-18), serving rité Berlin (from June 2017). Dr. Anker studied on the ESC board 2012-2018. Dr. Anker serves medicine at Charité Berlin and completed his in the board of the Heart Failure Association clinical training in Germany and the UK. He (HFA) of the ESC since 2006; he was HFA Pre- obtained his M.D. from Charité Medical School, sident (2012-14). He is founding Editor-in-Chief Berlin, Germany (1993), and his Ph.D. (1998) at of the open access journal ESC Heart Failure. National Heart & Lung Institute of Imperial Dr. Anker worked in several ESC Guideline task College London. He was Professor of Cardiolo- forces (e.g. the ESC HF guidelines 2012 & 2016). gy & Cachexia Research (W2) at Charité (2002- Dr. Anker is the founding president of the In- 14), and Professor of Innovative Clinical Trials ternational Society on Sarcopenia, Cachexia (W3) in Göttingen (2014-17). and Wasting Disorders (SCWD – see www. cachexia.org). Dr. Anker is founding Editor- Dr. Anker has authored more than 800 origi- in-Chief of the Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia nal papers, reviews, and editorials that are well and Muscle (JCSM, 2016-IF: 12.51, see www. cited. For his work Dr. Anker has won several jcsm.info). Dr. Anker was and is member of >30 prizes, including the 2018 Copernicus Prize international clinical trial steering committees, of German DFG & Polish FNP. He obtained a chairing or co-chairing several currently (FAIR- number of fellowships & grants, incl. 2 from HF2, EMPEROR-HFpEF, Fair-HFpEF, EMPE- NIH (WARCEF EU), 2 EU-FP7 & 2 IMI/Ho- RIAL-HFpEF, RELIEVE-HF) as well as in the rizon2020 grants. He was co-ordinator for “SI- past (incl. FAIR-HF, TIM-HF, AUGMENT-HF, CA-HF” (EU-FP7). He received grants for three IMPULSE-HF & BACH). He served in a num- IITs that are currently running for >13 Mill EUR ber of DMC’s (chairing 4) and end-point com- (from DZHK Germany & several industries). mittees (chairing 4). 4 Gerasimos Filippatos Dean, School of Medicine University of Cyprus Professor of Cardiology, University of Cyprus & National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Gerasimos Filippatos studied Medicine at has published over 450 articles in peer-re- the University of Patras, GR, and earned viewed journals and authored more than his doctorate Cum Laude from the Univer- 30 book chapters including the “Acute sity of Athens. He subsequently completed Heart Failure” chapter in Braunwald’s and his clinical training in Chicago, USA; and Oxford Desc Reference: Cardiology. Moreo- Cambridge, UK. ver, he has (co) edited 5 books including the ESC Textbook of Acute and Intensive Prof Filippatos is past President of the Cardiac Care, Highly Commended in the Heart Failure Association (HFA) of the 2011 British Medical Association Medical European Society of Cardiology (ESC). He Book Awards; in 2014 presented the book has served as Chair of the Clinical Section Heart Failure: The Expert’s Approach and and the Committee on Acute Heart Fai- in 2016 the pocket book: Treatment Algo- lure of the HFA, and as Chair of the ESC’s rithms in Heart Failure. Working Group on Acute Cardiac Care. He was also Coordinator of the ESC Congress Prof. Filippatos is in the Thomson Reuters Programme Committee for Heart Failure list of Highly Cited Researchers. and Acute Cardiac Care, member of the ESC Practice Guidelines Committee and Honorary Member of many Cardiac Socie- American College of Cardiology/American ties: ie French Cardiac Society, Romanian Heart Association HF Guidelines Writing Cardiac Society, Hungarian Cardiac So- Committee, and International Governor of ciety. the American College of Chest Physicians. Dr. Filippatos is Associate Editor of the Euro- pean Heart Journal (impact factor>20), the International Journal of Cardiology and of the Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine. He 5 Petar M. Seferovic President, Heart failure Association of the ESC Corresponding member of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts Professor, University of Belgrade Faculty of Medicine and Heart Failure Center, University Medical Center, Belgrade President, Heart Failure Society of Serbia Petar Seferovic is President of the Heart His research interests mainly include heart Failure Association of the European So- failure, acute and chronic, cardiomyop ciety of Cardiology. thies, myocarditis, pericardial disease as well as cardiovascular disease and dia- He has a long standing experience in the betes. He has been involved in numerous activities of ESC, and later was involved heart failure clinical trials as a National in Heart Failure Association projects for coordinator and Principal investigator, almost a decade. member of international steering com- mittees, endpoint committees, and advi- He is a Chair of Internal medicine, Bel- sory boards. grade University School of Medicine and Professor, Heart failure Department, Prof. Seferovic has coauthored a total of University Medical Center Belgrade, 570 publications, with cumulative im- Belgrade, Serbia. After completing his pact factor of 730 (h-index 31), including training and fellowship at Belgrade multiple papers in peer-reviewed inter- University School of Medicine and Kings national journals. He has a total citation College Hospital in London, UK, he spent of 15560 (Google Scholar) / 14758 (Sco- two years as a Visiting Assistant pro- pus). He presented more than 221 lec- fessor in Methodist Hospital and Bay- tures at International conferences. lor College of Medicine, Houston, USA. Prof. Seferovic was leading the intro- He acted as a Task Force member on se- duction of several methods of interven- veral ESC guidelines, including ESC gui- tional cardiology and myocardial and delines on the diagnosis and treatment pericardial disease in Serbia, including of acute and chronic heart failure, the percutaneous transluminal angioplasty, ESC guidelines for the management of endomyocardial biopsy, percutaneous pericardial disease, and the guidelines pericardioscopy and pericardial biopsy. on cardiovascular diseases in diabetes. In Starting mid-90’s, he dedicated his clini- addition, Petar Seferovic serves as a re- cal and research activity to chronic and viewer for several journals. acute heart failure. He is Corresponding member of Serbian Academy of Scien- cies and Arts and President, Heart Fai- lure Society of Serbia 6 Guidelines Forum FACULTY 7 William T. Abraham M.D., F.A.C.P., F.A.C.C., F.A.H.A., F.E.S.C., F.R.C.P. Professor of Internal Medicine, Physiology and Cell Biology Chair of Excellence in Cardiovascular Medicine Associate Dean for Clinical Research Chief, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine Medical Director, Clinical Trials Management Office Deputy Director, Dorothy M. Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio Dr. Abraham earned his medical degree from Harvard and vasopressin receptor antagonists; and acute Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, following heart failure and renal dysfunction complicating which he completed his residency in Internal heart failure. His work has contributed to the approval Medicine and fellowships in Cardiovascular Disease and adoption of several therapies for heart failure, and Advanced Heart Failure/Transplant Cardiology at including beta-blockers, natriuretic peptides, cardiac the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. He resynchronization therapy, ultrafiltration devices, previously held leadership positions at the University