34^th Annual Cardiologists Conference April 04-05, 2022 Rome, Italy

Roland Hetzer has completed his cardiothoracic surgery training in Hannover Medical School, Germany and in Stanford University, California. He performed the first heart transplantation in Hannover in 1983 and the first pediatric heart transplantation in Germany in 1985. Since 1986 he has been Professor of Surgery of the Free University of Berlin and then of the Charité and from January 1986 to September 2014 he was Medical Director and Chairman of the Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin. He and his team performed more than 1900 heart transplantations and more than 2300 implantations of mechanical circulatory support systems. He has made numerous original contributions in the field of cardiothoracic and vascular surgery particularly in surgical treatment of end-stage heart failure and valve surgery. From 1998 to 2016 he also served as Medical Director of Herzzentrum Cottbus. Presently, his clinical work is at the Cardio Centrum Berlin.

Cardiac Surgery, Heart Transplantation

George E Green,MD was formerly Professor of Clinical Surgery at Columbia University , Attending Surgeon at Columbia –Presbyterian Hospital, Senior Attending Surgeon at St. Lukes/ Roosevelt Hospital, New York, NY.

He has written extensively about internal thoracic – coronary anastomoses.

Robert Skalik (MD, PhD) consultant in cardiology, exercise physiologist. He completed his PhD in echocardiography from Department of Cardiac Surgery, Medical University of Wrocław, Poland. In 1996, he covered three month internship in Department of Cardiology, Free University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands (European Commission Scholarship -Tempus program). After postgraduate internship, he started working as a physician in Department of Internal Medicine in Municipal Hospital in Wrocław, Poland. Since 1998, he has been working at the Medical University of Wrocław as a cardiologist, academic teacher and researcher in the field of cardiovascular physiology (Faculty of Medicine). From 1998 to 2007 he worked as a specialist in internal medicine and consultant in cardiology in Department of Cardiac Surgery and Cardiology, Medical University of Wrocław, Poland. In 2002, he was a lecturer in Postgraduate School of Cardiology, University of Perugia, Italy (Erasmus Program). From 2010 to 2012 Head of Cardiac Rehabilitation Department in Wrocław Municipal Health Centre. At present, he is an academic teacher and researcher in Department of Physiology, Medical University of Wrocław (2008-2013 - Head of Exercise Physiology Laboratory of the Department) and consultant in cardiology for outpatient clinics in Wrocław, Regional General Hospital (Krotoszyn) and Specialist Hospital “Ventriculus” with Outpatient Clinics (Leszno) in Province of Wielkopolska, Poland. He specializes in clinical and sport cardiology with special focus on echocardiography (TTE and TEE). Robert Skalik is a research projects evaluator for European Commission, member of Editorial Boards of international medical journals, reviewer for journals: International Journal of Cardiology, International Cardiovascular Forum Journal, Expert Review of Cardiovascular Therapy. He is a member of European Society of Cardiology, Working Group on Myocardial Function, ESC Council on Stroke. He is an expert for E-journal of Cardiology Practice released by European Society of Cardiology (two invited articles- 2014 and 2017). In 2017, he became an invited Overseas Fellow of Royal Society of Medicine, London, Great Britain ( personal invitation from Honorary Secretary of RSM). He is an author and co-author of 108 papers on cardiology and human physiology in local and international medical journals (Herz, Polish Heart Journal, International Journal of Cardiology, Biology of Sport) and one monograph on exercise physiology.

Echocardiography,Myocardial Function,Cardiac Rehabilitation

Dr. Pierre Tibi is a thoracic and cardiac surgeon in Prescott, Arizona and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including Banner University Medical Center Phoenix and St. Luke's Medical Center. He received his medical degree from University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and has been in practice for more than 20 years.

Thoracic & Cardiac Surgery.

Dr Mari Aparici, MD is an Associate Professor in Residence at UCSF. She is a Nuclear Physician with residencies in both Europe (Barcelona) and US (Stanford), and with Molecular imaging fellowships from Stanford University. She is a physician-scientist in the development of Molecular Imaging. She has about 20 years of clinical and research experience in the field, and 10 years of a leadership position as Chief Nuclear Medicine at the San Francisco VAMC as part of her faculty position at UCSF. She has published 100 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of repute.

Molecular imaging,PET/CT and SPECT/CT, atherosclerosis, vulnerable plaque, intravascular catheter, cardiovascular disease, heart transplant, lymphoma, lymphoscintigraphy, sentinel node,molecular targeted treatment, translational research

Professor Tadeusz Malinski, Ph.D.; Dr.h.c.m. is the Marvin & Ann Dilley White Chair and Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Sciences at Ohio University. His research is interdisciplinary in the areas of biochemistry, biotechnology, nanomedicine. He was first in the world to measure, with nanosensors, nitric oxide concentration in single cells and neurons. His ground-breaking discovery of the regulatory role of nitric oxide in the beating heart and the mechanism of dysfunction of nitric oxide synthase are historical contributions to world science. The dysfunction of nitric oxide synthase is a common denominator of several diseases of modern civilization heart failure, hypertension, diabetes, atherosclerosis, aging, obesity and stroke. Professor Malinski’s work appears in nearly 400 publications. He has received approximately 35 Awards and Distinctions among others: International Academy of Cardiology Aaward, Maria Curie Award in Biochemistry, and the Grand Gold Medal in Medicine from the Society of Arts, Sciences and Lettres.

Role of Nitric oxide in endothelium dysfunction,Cardiovascular diseases,Heart failure, Hypertension, Diabetes, Atherosclerosis, Aging,Obesity and stroke,Biochemistry,Biotechnology,Nanomedicine

Andrey Kuznetsov has worked on the problems of delicate mechanisms of energy metabolism in the heart and their changes under pathophysiological conditions. He studied mitochondrial function and regulation in normal cells and in various pathological states, in particular in the field of mitochondrial cardiac system, mitochondrial interactions with other intracellular structures and systems, performing analysis of mitochondria in situ and in vivo. Also, he studied the roles of mitochondrial damage in ischemia reperfusion injury, apoptosis, calcium homeostasis, oxidative stress, mitochondrial ROS production, cardiac and muscle diseases with imaging of mitochondria and mitochondrial function, mitochondrial dynamics (fission, fusion, motility) in various living cells. He has extensive knowledge in cardiac bioenergetics and mitochondrial physiology and experience in optical imaging (fluorescent, two-photon) of single cell and single mitochondria, imaging of mitochondrial Ca2+, ROS, membrane potential, mitochondrial dynamics for basic science and in clinically oriented studies.

Cardiac bioenergetics,Mitochondrial physiology,Optical imaging

Dr. Anna Rekhviashvili MD, PhD is currently working as a cardiologist, chief of the Outpatients and Diagnostics Department at Archangel St Michael Clinical Hospital. She is leading Arterial Hypertension and Vascular Study Center, Tbilisi, Georgia. She completed her M.D. in Tbilisi State University, Georgia in 2002. She was resident in cardiology and PhD student from 2003-2008. She worked as a cardiologist at the Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University Hospital, Tbilisi, Georgia. She was Visiting Research Fellow at the Continuum Heart Institute, Beth Israel Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine New York, NY in 2010 and Visiting Professor at the AMC, Amsterdam, Netherlands in 2016. She is a member of many professional national and international societies in cardiology, hypertension and atherosclerosis. She has many publications in national and international journals.

Arterial Hypertension, diurnal variation of BP, endothelial dysfunction, micro- and macrocirculation in hypertension.