Curriculum Vitae

Name : Habib Gamra Date of Birth : February 21st, 1959 () Nationality : Tunisian Marital Status: married, three children Email: [email protected] Mobile: +216-97228316 Address : Home : 58, cite Ennakhil, 4089 Kantaoui, Sousse, Tunisia Business : Cardiology Department A Fattouma Bourguiba University Hospital Rue du 1er Juin 1955 - 5000 Monastir, Tunisia Languages : , French, English

EDUCATION

• Baccalaureate (Mathematics – Science) June 1978 • Medical School (Sousse University) 1978 – 1983 • Residency Exam November 1984 • Medical Doctor (Sousse University) October 1987 • Specialist in Cardiology June 1989 • University Diploma of Echo-Doppler June 1989(University Paris XII – Paris Val-de-Marne, • University Diploma of Cardiac Physiology applied to hemodynamics June 1989 (Pierre & Marie Curie University, Paris VI, France) • Inter-University Diploma of Cardiology September 1989 (Rouen University – France) • Assistant Professor of Cardiology December 1991 • End of Fellowship in Clinical Interventional Cardiology June 1992 (1990-1992) (University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA) • End of Fellowship in Research Interventional Cardiology June 1993 (1990-1993) (Loma Linda University, California, USA) • Associate Professor of Medicine November 1996 (Monastir University, Tunisia) • Full Professor of Medicine December 2002 (Monastir University, Tunisia)

PREVIOUS & CURRENT POSITIONS (as of June 2018)

• Co-founder and chairman of the Panafrican Course on Interventional Cardiology (PAFCIC) that is organized annually in African countries (one country each year) (www.pafcic.org) 2000 to Now • Head of Cardiology A Department May 2007 to Now (Fattouma Bourguiba University Hospital, Monastir, Tunisia) • President of the Tunisian Heart Foundation 2007 to Now • Director of Cardiothrombosis Research Laboratory 2008 to Now (LR12SP16) (University of Monastir, Tunisia) • Founder and President of the Working Group 2009 - 2015 on Interventional Cardiology of the Tunisian Society of Cardiology and Cardio-Vascular Surgery (GTCI) • Program Committee Member of Gulf-PCR 2011 -2016 • President of the African Heart Network 2012 - 2018 • Member of World Heart Federation Board 2012 -2016 • Co-Director of CSI Africa that is affiliated to CSI (Congenital and Structural Intervention) Frankfurt, the largest congress on the field around the world 2014 to Now • Member of PASCAR Interventional Cardiology Task Force 2014 to Now • Member of PASCAR Task Force on Hypertension 2014 to Now

• Country Champion of Stent For Life / Stent Save A Life Tunisia, an initiative of EAPCI and The European Society of Cardiology to promote the implementation of ESC guidelines for the management of patients with ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction 2015 to Now

• Co-director of Africa PCR that is affiliated to EuroPCR, the official congress en EAPCI, the European Association of Percutaneous Cardio-Vascular Interventions, of the European Society of Cardiology 2016 to Now

• Co-Chairman of CVCT-MEMA that is affiliated to CVCT Global, a symposium on CardioVascular Clinical Trials that has an edition in Washington DC, Singapore and since 2016 in Middle East, Africa and Mediterranean area (MEMA) - 2016 to Now https://www.globalcvctforum.com http://cvctmiddleeast.com/

FIELDS OF INTEREST: - Percutaneous valve repair: Aortic and mitral balloon valvuloplasty - CVD Prevention - Heart failure diagnosis and management - PCI: challenging anatomy and complications - Drug eluting stents - Management of Acute MI (Primary PCI, thrombolysis) - Acute coronary syndromes - Antithrombotic therapy (ACS, atrial fibrillation…)

PARTICIPATION IN INTERNATIONAL TRIALS: - CRESCENDO - NADROPAF: primary investigator - I-ADD - I-COMBINE - ZESCA - TRILOGY - TAO - REALIZE-AF - OLYMPIA - TIPS 3: National coordinator - COLCOT: National coordinator - FAST MI – Tunisia - NATURE-HF - STRONG-HF

AWARDS & DISTINCTIONS • Best research work of the year: SAIF Award 2015 for the project entitled: “Immediate and late results of patients with STEMI: Lessons for the MIRAMI Registry” Tunis, November 2015 • Best research project of CFCI congress (Congres Francophone de Cardiologie Interventionnelle) for the project entitled “ 20 years experience with balloon mitral valvuloplasty for patients with severe mitral stenosis” Paris, France , October 2016 • Honorary award from The Egyptian Society of Cardiology February 2018 • Honorary award from CardioAlex (Alexandria, Egypt) June 2018