14^th World Heart Congress

amien 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. Beder was graduated from La Plata University, School of Medicine, and I was completed Cardiology training at Hospital Interzonal General de Agudos San Juan de Dios, La Plata, Argentina. I'm staff of Cerhu Clinic and Chief of Cardiology of Italia Clinic in San Luis, Argentina, and I completed training in echocardiography and nuclear medicine. I was involved in many educational programs as a Teacher and Director. Some of those programs for echocardiographers in training. I'm Professor in Physiology, Physiopathology and Internal Medicine at Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Católica de Cuyo, San Luis, Argentine. I'm cardiologist at Argentinian Federation of Cardiology and Argentinian Society of CArdiology. I've published original researches in local journals. I've been invited as a guest lecturer in the most Scientific Sessions of the Argentinian Federation of Cardiology since 1996. I was president of San Luis Society of Cardiology in 2007. I was a President from National Congress of Cardiology in 2014

Cardiology, Cardiovascular Diseases

Aris Lacis, cardiac surgeon, professor, MD, PhD graduated Riga Medical Institute in 1961. General and thoracic surgeon in P. Stradina University Hospital in Riga (1964–1969). Thoracic and cardiac surgeon in the Latvian Centre for Cardiovascular Surgery (1969–1994). Since 1994 until 2012 – the head of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery Clinic in University Children’s Hospital, Riga; since 2012 – a consulting professor of this Clinic. Vicepresident of Latvian Society for Cardiovascular Surgery. President of Latvian Association for Pediatric Cardiologists. Author of 395 scientific publications, 3 monographs and 13 patents. Investigator in more than 10 clinical trials including cardiosurgical procedures performed under deep hypothermia, hybrid procedures etc. In May 2009 have been used transcutan intramyocardial delivery techniques for treatment (idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathia) the first 3 months aged patient in the world with autologous bone marrow derived progenitor cells. In November 2010 the first patient with end stage pulmonary hypertension received intrapulmonary implantation autologous stem cells.

Pediatric Cardiology, Cardiovascular Surgery

Michiaki Nagai has completed his graduation from the Jichi Medical University School of Medicine and has been engaged in the Cardiovascular Medicine. Using volumetric analysis in MR SPGR imaging, he has been investigating the fields for target hypertensive organ damages including the relationships among hypertension, blood pressure variability, brain atrophy, cognitive impairment and central autonomic nervous system including the insular cortex. He was engaged in the Interventional Cardiology at Hiroshima City Asa Hospital as the Vice Director. He won the Japanese Society of Hypertension Award in the International Society of Hypertension 2006, the Young Investigator’s Award in the 8th Japanese Neurocardiology Workshop 2007 and Young Scientist Award in the second annual scientific forum of clinical hypertension of the Japanese Society of Hypertension 2013.

Hypertension, Interventional Cardiology, Cardiovascular Medicine

Carola Förster has a convincing track record in (neuro)physiology with a strong focus on the (dis)functions of the blood-brain barrier (BBB). A significant aspect of her research is related to regulation of gene expression at the BBB, specifically by non-coding RNA, particular microRNA, to offer pharmacological solutions to the observed BBB alterations. For this, CF systematically studies the mechanisms from gene regulation, through transcription, to protein degradation and cellular morphology, linking basic science with clinical aspects. After years of experience in research, evaluation, teaching and administration both in hospital and education institutions, CF developed different in vitro and in vivo models of cerebrovascular disease and established recently a division of computational model to further strengthen this area of research.

heart failure and stroke, neurophysiology

Mary Shibuya is an experienced native English medical editor/writer of 32 years living in Japan with a background in chemistry and allergy research at Mayo Clinic (Rochester, MN). For 23 years she was the language editor of the journal Internal Medicine, published by the Japanese Society of Internal Medicine. In addition to editing and preparing research articles for publication in international journals, she attended various medical/scientific congresses as Press (interviews, transcription, summarizing). She also enjoys lecturing on scientific medical writing in English to graduate schools and pharmaceutical companies. She strives to encourage ESL doctors/researchers to publish in English.

allergy research,chemistry,scientific medical writing

Dr. Hallak is currently Chief of Interventional Cardiology Department at American Hospital Dubai, President (gulf Chapter) of international Society of Endovascular Specialists, Chairman of 4TS international conference, and previous Board Member of Emirate Cardiac Society. Dr. Hallak received his post graduate training and research in United States at University of Illinois, Chicago, North Western University and Louisiana University in New Orleans. He is Board Certified in Interventional Cardiology, Cardiovascular Disease, Vascular Medicine, Endovascular Medicine, Nuclear Cardiology and Internal Medicine. He was the Head of Cardiology Department at Saint Francis Hospital in USA, and assistant Professor at LSU New Orleans and University of West Virginia. He has performed thousands of procedures including Cardiac and Peripheral Vascular Intervention in addition to Pacemaker and ICD/ CRT Implantation. He participated in many national and international research studies with many publications. He involved extensively in local, regional and international cardiology conferences as a Speaker and as a Chairman.

Interventional Cardiology, Cardiovascular Disease, Vascular Medicine, Endovascular Medicine, Nuclear Cardiology and Internal Medicine

Dr. 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.

Cardiovascular Research

Galya Naydenova Atanasova completed her Ph.D. training in Cardiology from Department of Cardiology, Pulmonology and Endocrinology at Pleven Medical University, Bulgaria. She is a Cardiologist, Assistant Professor at the Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University, Pleven. She is a General Practitioner in Pleven. She specialized in Cardiology from Pleven Medical University during 2015, and General Medicine from Pleven Medical University, Bulgaria during 1993. She has attended to many International Events and presented her research work. She did many researches on metabolic syndrome and myocardial infarction of heart.

metabolic syndrome and myocardial infarction of heart

Dr. Santoso Karo Karo MPH, SpJP (K) FIHA ,FAsCC was born on October 1,1945 at present he is the Chairperson of PERKI Foundation, Consultant Cardiologist, Parliament Health Service, Teaching Staff, Department of Cardiology and Vascular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia. He is the part of many organizations as Member,Indonesian Medical Association, Past President, Indonesian Heart Association (PERKI), Chairperson, Board of Ethics, Indonesian Heart Association (PERKI), Co-founders, Indonesian Society of Hypertension (InaSH), Co-founders,Asia Pacific Society of Hypertension (APSH)

Clinical Cardiology, Cardiovascular Medicine, Hypertension

Dr. Satoru Takeno graduated from Akita University in 2001. After completing the residency program at the International Medical Center of Japan, he started his career as a pediatric cardiologist at Kyoto University Hospital. Since 2011, he has been engaged in pediatric electrophysiology and catheter ablation at Kindai University.

Pediatrics, Pediatric Electrophysiology