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Speakers

Prof. Dr. Victor Costache

  • University professor, Titu Maiorescu University Bucharest
  • Member of the French Academy of Surgery (https://www.academie-chirurgie.fr)
  • Former Minister of Health in Romania 2019, 2020
  • President of the Romanian Society of Vascular Surgery
  • Medical Director and Head of the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery at Sanador Clinical Hospital, Bucharest
  • Executive Director for Eastern Europe within the International Society of Endovascular Specialists

Prof. Dr. Horatiu Moldovan

  • MD. PhD Habil
  • University Professor of Cardiovascular Surgery – Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy
  • Qualified Doctor in Medical Sciences
  • Full Member of the Romanian Academy of Medical Sciences
  • Head of the Cardiovascular Surgery Clinic, Bucharest Emergency Clinical Hospital
  • Associate Member of the Romanian Academy of Scientists
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Assoc. Prof. Dr. Silviu Dumitrescu

  • Senior cardiology consultant, MD PHD
  • Cardiologist primary doctor
  • Doctor of Medical Sciences
  • Head of Cardiology Section 1 at the Military Emergency University Hospital “Dr. Carol Davila”

Prof. Subramanian Valavanur

  • The inventor of Mitral Bridge for the treatment of Mitral Regurgitation
  • Chairman of the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan
  • Cardiac and thoracic surgeon

Prof. Guillermo Escobar

  • Associate Professor of Surgery, Division of Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy, Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine
  • Program Director, Vascular Surgery Fellowship and Residency, Emory University School of Medicine

Prof.  James Fonger

  • Chief Medical Officer for Platinum Training Innovation Perspectives LLC
  • Leading the development of a minimally invasive device system for the injection of the epicardial surface of the failing left ventricle
  • CEO of CardioScout LLC
  • Atlanta GA
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Prof. Palma Shaw

  • MD
  • ISEVS President
  • State University of New York
  • General and Vascular Surgery
  • Upstate Medical Center Syracuse, NY
  • Fellow of the American College of Surgeons
  • Distinguished Fellow of the Society for Vascular Surgery
  • President Elect for the International Society for Endovascular Specialists
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Prof. Dr. Ivo Petrov

  • Professor at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”
  • University Hospital Acibadem City Clinic Sofia
  • Cardiology, electrophysiology and angiology
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Prof. Jacques Busquets

  • Private practitioner – Val d’Or Surgical Clinic – Saint-Cloud
  • Winner of the Hospitals
  • Former head of clinics at the Hospitals of Bordeaux
  • Member – French Society of Vascular Surgery (SCVCE)
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Prof. Dr. Rodney White

  • M.D
  • ISEVS Vice-President
  • Past President of the American Society of Cardiovascular Surgery
  • Cardiovascular surgeon at UCLA
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Prof. Adrian Molnar

  • M.D
  • President SRCCMI
  • Medical director of the Heart Institute “Niculae Stancioiu” Cluj-Napoca
  • UMF “Iuliu Hatieganu” Cluj

Prof. Dr. Kak Khee Yeung

  • M.D., Ph.D., FEBVS
  • Vascular Surgeon
  • President ESVS
  • Full Prfessor Personalized Therapy in Vascular Surgery
  • Department of Vascular Surgery and Physiology
  • ACS: Amsterdam Cardiovascular Sciences
  • Amsterdam UMC location VUmc and AMC

Dr. Eric Arnaud Crozat

  • Cardiac surgeon at Grenoble Alpes University

Dr. Daniel Fudulu

  • Consultant Adul Cardiac Surgeon, Bristol Heart Institute
  • Senior Lecturer, Bristo Medical School, Universtity of Bristol, UK

Dr. Dumitrascu-Ioana Biris

  • Specialist in fetal and pediatric cardiology
  • Pediatric cardiology
  • Fetal Cardiology Trainer at Kings College Hospital London

Prof. Peter Lukas Haldenwang

  • Ruhr University Bochum | RUB
  • Clinic for cardiac and thoracic surgery
  • Doctor of Medicine

Dr. Nathalie Dedieu

  • Pediatric cardiology consultant
  • Great Ormond Street Hospital
  • United Kingdom

Prof. Dr. Ioannis Tzanavaros

  • Adult and Pediatric Cardiac Surgeon
  • Director of Cardiac Innovation Center​
  • Clinical Professor at the University of Nicosia Medical School
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Prof. Dr. Lucian Dorobantu

  • University Professor of Cardiovascular Surgery at Titu Maiorescu University
  • Scientific Director at Monza Hospital
  • Head of the Cardiovascular Surgery Clinic at Monza Hospital
  • Cardiomyopathy Center Coordinator at Monza Hospital

Dr. Trifan Catalin

  • Cardiovascular surgeon
  • Ponderas Hospital, Bucharest

Prof. Dr. Theodora Benedek

  • Cardiologist primary doctor and internal medicine
  • Competence in interventional cardiology
  • Proficiency in pacemaker implantation
  • Competence in transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography
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Dr. Konstantinos Spargias

  • Clinical Cardiologist
  • Director, Transcatheter Heart Valves Department
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Dr. Arjan Hoksbergen

  • Aortic surgery, open and endovascular
  • Aortic aneurysms, dissections and ruptures
  • Thoracic and thoraco-abdominal aortic pathology
  • Kidney transplant
  • Varicose Vein Surgery
  • Thoracic outlet syndrome
  • Amsterdam UMC
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Prof. Radu Vătășescu

  • Cardiology primary physician
  • Internal medicine primary physician
  • European skills in interventional electrophysiology and pacing, internal defibrillators and resynchronization therapy
  • SANADOR Clinical Hospital

Dr. Jean Paul Couetil

  • Chief of cardiac surgery
  • Professor of Cardiac Surgery
  • Head of the Cardiac Surgery Department.
  • Henri Mondor University Hospital, Créteil

Prof. Dr. Claudia Gherman

  • Primary physician surgeon
  • Professor at UMF “Iuliu Hatieganu”
  • Manager of the Cluj-Napoca Emergency County Hospital
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Prof. Dr. Mihai Ionac

  • Head of discipline: vascular surgery, microsurgery
  • Vascular surgery primary care physician
  • Plastic and reconstructive surgery
  • General surgery
  • Head of the Vascular Surgery Department (2006 – 2020)
  • Emergency County Clinical Hospital “Pius Branzeu” Timisoara

Dr. Frank Criado MD

  • Endovascular Surgery
  • Aneurysm-Abdominal & Thoracic Aortic
  • Carotid Endarterectomy
  • MedStar Union Memorial Hospital

Dr. Rodica Niculescu

  • Cardiology primary doctor
  • Head of Interventional Cardiology Department, SANADOR Clinical Hospital
  • Competence in invasive and interventional cardiology
  • SANADOR Clinical Hospital, SANADOR Buzești Clinic
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Dr. Cristina Pitis

  • Cardiology primary doctor
  • Competencies in: vascular ultrasound, transesophageal echocardiography
  • SANADOR Clinical Hospital
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Assoc. Prof. Dr. Eliza Cinteza

  • Primary physician Pediatrics and Pediatric Cardiology
  • Emergency Clinical Hospital for Children “Marie Sklodowska Curie”
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Professor. Petru Liuba

  • Pediatric and Adult Congenital Cardiology
  • Director Cardiac Catheterization Lab
  • Lund University Hospital

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Serban Stoica

  • Consultant Cardiac Surgeon
  • Honorary Associate Professor
  • Bristol Children’s Hospital and the Heart Institute at the Bristol Royal Infirmary

Dr. Anatolie Cazacu

  • Medical Doctor at the German Diagnostic Center
  • Chisinau, Moldavia

Dr. Mihai Cucu

  • Medic Specialist, Chirurgie vasculara
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Prof. Dr. Popa Radu

  • Head of the Department of Vascular Surgery Hospital “Sf
    Spiridon” Iasi
  • Primary doctor of vascular surgery
  • Assoc. Prof. UMF “Grigore.T.Popa” Iasi
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Prof. Adrian Muresan

  • Head of the cardiovascular surgery clinic of the County Hospital in Targu Mures

Dr. Andrada Guta

  • Cardiology
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Dr. Claude Vaislic

  • Cardiovascular and Thoracic surgeon
  • Member of the National Academy of Surgery
  • Expert witness for the Court of Cassation
  • First vice president for the expert company for the Court of Cassation

Dr. Pavel Heghi

  • Cardiac technician
  • Stuttgart, DE

Dr. Sharif Elshafei

  • Consultant of Vascular/Endovascular surgery
  • University Klinik Gießen (UKGM)

Prof.  Daniela Branzan

  • Head of the Clinic for Vascular and Endovascular Surgery
  • University Hospital of TUM
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Assoc. Dr. Horatiu Coman

  • Vascular surgeon

Dr. Eliza Mikus

  • Maria Cecilia Hospital, Cotignola, Ravenna, Italy
  • Cardiovascular surgery
Lucian Stoica

Dr. Lucian Stoica

  • Cardiovascular surgeon

M.D. Markus Kofler

  • Adult cardiac surgery
  • Medical University of Innsbruck University Clinic of Cardiac Surgery Anichstrasse 35 6020, Innsbruck Austria

Dr. Benedek Imre

  • Head physician in cardiology and internal medicine
    Expertise in interventional cardiology
  • Mures County Emergency Clinical Hospital

Prof. Olinic Dan

  • Primary physician Cardiologist
  • Cluj County Emergency Clinical Hospital, Head of the Angiography and
    Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, Coordinating Physician of the Interventional Cardiology Clinical Department Interventional Cardiology

Prof. Catalina Arsenescu

  • Professor Emeritus – UMF “Gr.T.Popa” Iași
  • Full Member of ARSM – Romanian Academy of Medical Sciences
  • Vice President of the Society of Physicians and Naturalists in Iași
  • Doctoral Supervisor – UMF “Gr.T.Popa” Iași

Dr. Strobescu Cristina

  • Vascular Surgery Clinic
  • Emergency Hospital “Sf. Spiridon” Iasi

Dr. Gaina Marcel Alexandru

  • Specialist psychiatrist, integrative psychotherapist

Dr. Baila Mihnea

  • Radiology specialist
  • Emerald Medical Center, Bucharest

Prof. Cimpoiesu Diana

  • University professor, chief physician of the Emergency Department (UPU) at the “Sf Spiridon” Emergency Clinical Hospital in Iaşi
  • Head of SMURD Iaşi

Dr. Bataila Vlad

  • Interventional Cardiology Expertise
  • Primary Care Physician Cardiology
  • Sanador, Bucharest

Dr. Trofin Monica

  • Primary Cardiology Doctor
  • Head of Cardiology Department and USTACC coordinato
  • SANADOR, Bucharest
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