38^thEuropean Cardiology Conference

Damien Byas is the President, North American Scientific Committee on Cardiovascular Health, USA as well as an Epidemiologist and Professor of Public Health, American Public Health Association, International Public Health Delegate, USA.

Cardiology, Cardiovascular Diseases, Epidemiology

Dr. Low is the Chief Executive Officer of the Farrer Park Hospital in Singapore and also a Medical Affairs senior executive in the Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Industries in the Asia Pacific region. He pioneered the establishment of a global contract research organisation with Singapore as the regional headquarters. Dr Timothy Low successfully led the operational turnaround strategy for the 800-staff Gleneagles Hospital to establish itself as a 6-star private healthcare provider by clinching 14 local and regional awards including the highly prestigious Asian Hospital Management Award. He has held key management positions in the last 25 years with renowned organizations. With his expertise, he has not only contributed significantly to Clinical Research, but also to the pharmaceutical industry, medical device industry, as well as the medical community.

Medical Affairs, Medical Devices, Cardiac Pharmacology

He is graduated from the Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná - Brazil, medical specialization in CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY recognized by the Ministry of education and cultura, Specialist member of the Brazilian Society of Cardiovascular Surgery and registered with the Federal Council of Medicine - Brazil, Master in CLINIC SURGICAL, responsible for the CARDIAC TRANSPLANTATION at Angelina Caron Hospital, works in the area of CARDIAC SURGERY.

Cardiac Surgery,Cardiac Transplantation

Dr Chan holds a PhD in medical decision analysis. Currently an assistant director at the Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Dr Chan is also an honorary fellow of the College of Science, Health & Engineering, La Trobe University, where he taught from 2010 to 2013. He strongly advocates the applications of Bayesian techniques and structural equation models in biomedical research, and has published over 120 papers in peer-reviewed journals to date.

Cardiology

Dr Wong Siong Sung is Consultant Cardiologist at National University Heart Centre Singapore. He is subspecialized in Nuclear Cardiology, Cardiovascular CT and Cardiovascular MRI. He is one of the pioneers in the establishment of the quantification of myocardial blood flow and coronary flow reserve using SPECT imaging technique in Singapore. This technique is to be of great importance to patient’s management and carries a significant prognostic value. Dr Wong did his advanced fellowship training in Nuclear Cardiology at Royal Brompton Hospital and Harefield Hospital, London, United Kingdom and University College Hospital, London, UK. His advanced fellowship training in Cardiovascular CT and Cardiovascular MRI took place at Royal Brompton Hospital, London, United Kingdom. He has interpreted numerous number of cases in the field of Nuclear Cardiology, Cardiovascular CT and Cardiovascular MRI. He always has great interest to integrate multi-modality imaging to provide better care to the patients.

Cardiology,Nuclear Cardiology,Cardiovascular MRI (multi-modality imaging).

Michael A Mancini, Ph.D., is a Distinguished University Professor at the Baylor College of Medicine, United States.

Cardiology

Samer Ellahham has served as Chief Quality Officer for SKMC since 2009. In his role, Dr. Ellahham has led the development of a quality and safety program that has been highly successful and visible and has been recognized internationally by a number of awards. As Chief Quality Officer and Global Leader, Dr. Ellahham has a focus on ensuring that that implementation of this best practices leads to breakthrough improvements in clinical quality and patient safety. Dr. Ellahham is the recipient of the Quality Leadership Award from the Global Awards for excellence in Quality and Leadership and the Business Leadership Excellence Award from the World Leadership Congress. He was nominated in 2015 for SafeCare magazine Person of the Year. He did his fellowship in Cardiology at the Medical College of Virginia (MCV) in USA. After completing his fellowship, Dr. Ellahham worked in Washington DC in several clinical and leadership positions before moving to UAE in 1988. He led the First AHA GWTG Heart Failure Initiative outside US and was the recipient of the AHA GWTG Award in Wash. DC. His clinical passion and expertise is in the field of heart failure management. He demonstrated great skill and experience in the management of patients with heart failure and led a multi-disciplinary team in the care and delivery of advanced therapies to these patients. He has unique abilities to partner and engage local and regional referring providers. He is able to work in a highly matrixed environment, possess strong leadership and organizational skills and have experience to working effectively in a large health system.

Clinical Cardiology and Cardiovascular Diseases

Dr. Agha is working in the field of pediatric cardiology since 1990. Her field of interest within the pediatric cardiology is interventional catheterization, echocardiography and postoperative cardiac intensive care. She is currently the director of pediatric postoperative cardiac ICU, CUSPH. She is a course director of many pediatric echocardiography hands-on courses and teacher of pediatric cardiology E-Learning course. She has published 40 papers in reputed journals and she has supervised more than 50 research thesis.

Pediatric Cardiology, Echocardiography and Postoperative cardiac intensive care

Dr. Silvana Molossi joined the Faculty at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital as an Associate Professor, Section of Pediatric Cardiology. Dr. Silvana Molossi has been working for the past six years in screening young athletes for conditions known to be high risk for sudden cardiac death (hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, in particular). Dr. Silvana Molossi is the Vice President of Science and Research for the Championship Hearts Foundation, Austin, Texas. Her work includes the recent development of a state registry in which important demographic, ethnic, electrocardiographic and limited echocardiographic data are being collected and will be followed longitudinally in this population of young athletes. She is also a member of the Sports and Exercise Cardiology Council and Section, American College of Cardiology.

Pediatric Cardiology

Mary Shibuya is a Distinguished University Lecturer at the Gunma University, Japan

Cardiology

Flavio Burgarella is a cardiologist and physiatrist, head of the Cardiac Rehabilitation Center of San Pellegrino Terme, in the province of Bergamo, Italy. He is registered with the national Assiciations of journalists. Founder and Executive Director of Heart Friends Around The World

Cardiac Rehabilitation

Dr. Hany Eteiba MD FRCP(Glas.) FRCP(Edin.) FACC FSCAI FIACS Associate, Consultant Cardiologist, Regional and National Medicine-Director, Associate Medical Director, West of Scotland Heart and Lung Centre, Golden Jubilee National Hospital, Glasgow Royal Infirmary. He is the Medical Director - Regional and National Medicine Consultant Interventional Cardiologist, West of Scotland Heart & lung centre, Golden Jubilee National Hospital Glasgow Royal Infirmary Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, Glasgow University Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. Dr Eteiba is also a member of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, member of the American College of Cardiology, member of the American Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, Elected Council member of RCPSG and Medical Advisor of the International committee of Glasgow Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons.

Interventional Cardiology, Heart disease, Heart failure

Dayi Hu is the President of the Chinese Society of Cardiology (CSC), President of the China Committee of Cardio-Cerebral-Vascular Diseases of GSC, a past president of the Chinese College of Cardiovascular Physicians (CCCP), Chief of the Intervention Centre at Peking University People’s Hospital, Dean of Clinical Research Institute at Shanghai’s Fudan University and a member of The International Academy of Sciences for Europe and Asia(IASEA). Professor Dayi Hu is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Society of Cardiovascular Pharmacotheraphy (ISCP), the editor-in-chief of Chinese Journal of Cardiology, an international board member of Journal of Clinical Cardiology, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, European Heart Journal, Nature Cardiovascular Medicine and also many other national and international medical journals. Professor Hu has been the editor-in-chief or major translator of 50 professional books, three of which have been published in United States.

Cardiology, Cardiovascular Pharmacology, Cardio-Cerebral-Vascular Diseases

Dr Antonia Anna Lukito is Interventional consultant cardiologist at Siloam Karawaci Hospital and currently Head of Cardiovascular Department in Pelita Harapan University, and also an Independent Consultant of MRIN Ethics Committee. Dr Antonia joining several overseas formal courses such as Advanced Cardiology Course at Victoria Heart Center Melbourne in 1996, Cardiovascular CT Training at Cologne Germany in 2005, Carotid Intervention Training at NTUH Taipei 2012, Optical Coherence Tomography(OCT) Training at Finlandia 2012, and Rotablator & IVUS hands-on training at Japan in 2013. She also actively involved in Indonesian Heart Association (PERKI) as vice chairman of Indonesian Heart Consumer Cooperatives (KKJI), chairman of Woman Cardiology working roup, and as scientific & education committee in IHA Banten chapter. Dr Antonia also active in Indonesian Society of Hypertension (InaSH), Indonesian Heart Rhythm Society (InaHRS), and Indonesian Society of Interventional Cardiology (ISIC).

Interventional Cardiology ,Hypertension, Cardiovascular Research

Bambang Budiono has his expertise in interventional cardiology for 15 years. He has a lot of clinical experience and involved in some international registration and trials. His interest and expertise in interventional cardiology is well known, which make him invited as faculty in a lot of regional and international meetings.

Interventional cardiology, Heart Diagnosis

Consultant cardiologist and Bahrain’s first interventional cardiac electrophysiologist. He is the head of electrophysiology department; cardiac pacing and tachyarrhyhmia devices in Mohammed bin Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa Cardiac Centre at Bahrain Defence Force Hospital. He is board certified in internal medicine and adult cardiology from University of Toronto, Canada. Subsequently he did a sub-speciality clinical fellowship in cardiac electrophysiology at Toronto General Hospital. During his cardiology residency and clinical fellowship years he did a research focusing on the “Spatial organization of ventricular fibrillation in explanted Langendorff human heart” which he presented in the annual Ursula Bangs Clinical and Research day at University of Toronto. Subsequently he presented his research at the Canadian Cardiovascular Society Meeting in Montreal/Canada and then submitted an abstract at the American Heart Association. After returning from Canada he established the country's first electrophysiology (EP) laboratory in 2010, subsequently established an advanced EP program utilizing 3D mapping system and established a program for cryoablation of atrial fibrillation. He was the past president of the Gulf Heart Rhythm Society (GHRS). He is a fellow of the Gulf Heart Rhythm Society, Fellow of The Royal College of Physicians of Canada and a Fellow of the Westminster College in Vancouver. He is an Arab Board Examiner for adult cardiology. He received the following honors and decorations; Hawar Medal of a first grade, Military Assessment Medal 1st Class and Medal of Courage. His research interests include atrial fibrillation, new oral anticoagulants, cardiac devices and sudden cardiac death.

atrial fibrillation, new oral anticoagulants, cardiac devices and sudden cardiac death

Dr. Almahdi is a full time interventional cardiologist at the Dabbous Cardiac Center since July 2014. He received his medical degree from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 2001. He then had his training in Internal Medicine in Kuwait and became Kuwaiti-board certified in Medicine in 2007. In 2010 he started his post graduate training as a fellow in Cardiology at King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. During the three-year fellowship training, he was appointed as “chief fellow” two years in a row. He received the 2012 fellow-of-the-year award. After completion of his general cardiology training, Dr. Almahdi joined the interventional cardiology fellowship training program at McGill University Health Center (Royal Victoria Hospital) in Montreal, Canada in 2013. Dr. Almahdi is primarily interested in chronic total occlusions. He has a few medical publications along with contributions in a few medical textbooks as well.

chronic total occlusions,Interventional cardiology

Dr. Dogan has completed his degrees in Hacettepe University Medical Faculty, Ankara, Turkey. He completed Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery fellow-ship program in 2006 after adult cardiovascular surgery residency. His study is continued in Cardiovascular Surgery and Pediatric Cardiology Clinic in the same university. He is the director of Adult and Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery. He is an Editor in Chief of Case Reports in Medicine. He also is member of Editorial Board in eight international scientific journals. He had more than 70 papers in reputed journals.

Pediatric Heart Failure Pediatric Heart Surgery

Dr Silva has a Master Degree and a Doctorate Degree in Medical Sciences at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, and a Master Degree in Epidemiology at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. He also attended a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Perinatal Research in the Wayne State University,in Michigan, USA, and in the Georgetown University,in Washington DC,USA, where his focus was the fetal cardiac function, related to infections.His research field is on cardiovascular risk factors in diseases like AIDS and others with systemic inflammatory compromise,analysing mainly the cardiac and endothelium functions by means of ultrasonography.

Cardiovascular Risk Factors Cardiac Ultrasonography.

Eugen Sandica is Director and Surgeon-in-Chief, Department of Surgery for Congenital Heart Defects Medical Director, Center for Congenital Heart Defects, Heart and Diabetes Center NRW, Germany

Congenital Heart Defects Heart Surgery

David Coman MBBS MPhil FRACP is a Paediatrician, Metabolic Physician and a Clinical Geneticist working in clinical practise in Brisbane Australia. He has a public appointment at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Brisbane, and is the Medical Director of Paediatrics at the Wesley Private Hospital in Brisbane. David has an active interest in teaching and is the Academic lead for Paediatrics in the Unit Care Clinical School, Brisbane. He has a particular research interest in disorders associated with aberrant post-translational modification, epigenetics modification of single gene disorders, and novel disease discovery. David has active interests in Rare Disease Advocacy, and runs philanthropic General Paediatric Clinics to the Western provinces of the Solomon Islands.

Novel disease discovery Pediatrics Diseases Pediatric Metabolic Disorders

Director, the Sedation Service, Dept of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Cardiac Anesthesia Cardiac Surgery

Dr. Rubin Seymour Cooper, MD Specialty is Pediatric Cardiology, Pediatrics. He is a Chief - CCMC Division of Pediatric Cardiology and Professor, Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine,USA

Pediatric Cardiac Diseases Pediatrics Diseases

Christopher Snyder is the Director of Pediatric Cardiology at Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. His interests include general pediatric cardiology and Adult with Congenital Heart disease as well as a sub-specialty in pediatric and adult congenital electrophysiology on an inpatient and outpatient basis.

Congenital Electrophysiology Congenital Heart disease

Bryan Cannon is a pediatric cardiologist in Rochester, Minnesota and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including Mayo Clinic and Mayo Clinic - Saint Marys Hospital. He received his medical degree from University of Texas Southwestern Medical School and has been in practice for 19 years. He is one of 13 doctors at Mayo Clinic and one of 8 at Mayo Clinic - Saint Marys Hospital who specialize in Pediatric Cardiology.

Radiofrequency ablation Cryoablation (Cryocath) Carto 3-dimensional mapping system

Dr van den Hoff obtained his PhD in 1994 from the University of Amsterdam:“Isolation and characterization of the rat carbamoylphosphate synthetase I gene”. After moving to the field of heart development with Prof Moorman, he established his own group focusing on heart muscle cell formation and epicardial development after the formation of the linear heart tube. As a visiting scientist he has developed a tight collaboration with the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston (US). Currently, he is vice-chair of the department of Anatomy, Embryology & Physiology and AMC Principle Investigator and has published in excess of 86 papers (H-index 29) in peer-reviewed journals.

Myocardial Diseases Ventricular Defects

Brojendra Agarwala has completed his MBBS at the age of 23 years from University of Kolkata, India and completed Pediatric cardiology fellowship from New York university medical center New York, NY, USA. He is a pediatric cardiologist and professor of Pediatrics at the University of Chicago. He has received best teacher award be the pediatric residents and the medical students. He has published 68 papers in reputed journals. He is named as one of the Top Doctors and Best pediatricians in Chicago magazine for many years.

Fetal Echocardiography Pediatric Cardiology

Umesh Dyamenahalli is a pediatric Cardiologist and Intensivist; an Associate Professor, Director of Cardiac ICU and an Associate Chief Pediatric Cardiology at the University of Chicago.He has been the author for about 40 publications in reputable journals and few book chapters. He has been working in the field of quality enhancement; the new team initiatives are multidisciplinary and have changed practice and culture and enhanced patient, family and care providers’ satisfaction along with improved outcomes. As a recognized safety and quality expert, Umesh serves on the American College of Medical Quality Board.

Pediatric cardiology Cardiac critical care Quality and outcome improvement Echocardiography