37^th Annual Cardiologists Conference

He completed his under graduation in 1996 from Ashwood Medical University (Texas) and Masters (MD) in internal medicine in 1999 from Belford University (Texas).

Interventional Cardiology

Dr Ghanem was qualified in 1974, Mansoura University, Egypt. He obtained his FRCSEd from the royal college of surgeons of Edinburgh in 1983, and MD from Mansoura University, Faculty of medicine in 1988, He gained all postgraduate experience in UK where he was promoted in posts up to the consultant level. He practiced as consultant Urologist in UK, Saudi Arabia and Egypt. During his career life he reported over 100 articles of which he made important discoveries in medicine, physiology, urology, nephrology, cardiovascular and surgery. He discovered two new types of vascular shocks, proved that one physiological law is wrong and provided an alternative. He resolved the puzzles of 3 clinical syndromes: the transurethral of the prostate (TURP) syndrome, the loin pain haematuria syndrome (LPHS) and the adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). He is now on the editorial board member and peer reviewer of many medical and surgical journals, Editor-in-Chief of one journal, land he is happily retired in Egypt. He is happily retired in Egypt happily retired in Egypt dedicated to scientific medical reading and writing that helps the practicing physicians to practice precision medicine as well as correctly directing future research

practicing physicians to practice precision medicine

Dr. Frank Marcus is professor emeritus of medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine –Tucson. His area of expertise is clinical cardiology, cardiovascular pharmacology and clinical electrophysiology. Dr. Marcus graduated from Columbia University College and received a Master’s Degree in physiology from Tufts University. He graduated from Boston University School of Medicine cum laude in 1953. He did his internship and residency at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston from 1953-1954 and 1956-1957. He was a research fellow in cardiology at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital from 1957-1958 and then completed his cardiology training at Georgetown University Hospital in 1959. After a year as chief medical resident at Georgetown University Hospital, he was appointed chief of cardiology at the Georgetown University Medical Service, D.C. General Hospital. He held this position from 1960-1968. During this time, he was promoted to associate professor of medicine at Georgetown University. In January 1969, he became professor and chief of the Section of Cardiology at the University of Arizona College of Medicine. In 1982, he was appointed Distinguished Professor of Medicine and held this endowed chair until 1999. He is certified in the American Board of Internal Medicine and in the subspecialty board of cardiovascular disease. Dr. Marcus was founder and first president of the Arizona Chapter of the American College of Cardiology in 1987-1988 and was president of the Association of University Cardiologists from 1990-1991. Among his honors are the Outstanding Achievement Award of the European Cardiac Arrhythmia Society in 2011; and Pioneer in Cardiac Pacing and Electrophysiology Award of the Heart Rhythm Society in 2011. Later in his career, Dr. Marcus turned his attention to the study of cardiac arrhythmias. He introduced radiofrequency energy for cardiac ablation procedures.

Arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia/cardiomyopathy (ARVC/D) and sudden cardiac death

Samir Morcos Rafla Emeritus professor of cardiology, Alexandria University, Egypt Fellow American College of Cardiology FACC Emeritus Fellow European Society of Cardiology EFESC Fellow Heart Rhythm Society FHRS (American society of arrhythmia) Member European Heart Rhythm Society HER Reviewer in many journals and assessor of abstracts and papers in conferences. Publications in Researchgate and Google Scholar.

Electrophysiology, Echocardiography, Pacemaker therapy

Rui Manuel de Sousa Sequeira Antunes de Almeida is the Board Member of the Paraná’ Society of Cardiovascular Surgery, since 2002, and became its President (2006- 08). He was elected as a President of the South Brazilian’ Society of Cardiovascular Surgery (2007-09), a Member of the Board of the Brazilian’ Society of Cardiovascular Surgery (2009-2010), President of the Board (2011-2013) and President of the Endovascular Department of the Brazilian’ Society of Cardiovascular Surgery (2011-2013), Scientific Director of the Brazilian’ Society of Cardiovascular Surgery (2014-15) and Vice-President for the period of 2016-17. He has published more than 100 papers in peer reviewed national and international medical journals and presented more than 250 papers in scientific meetings. He also served as the Editorial Board Member of 10 international journals and five Brazilian journals.

Cardiovascular Surgery

Sergey Suchkov was a Secretary-in-Chief of the Editorial Board, Biomedical Science, an international journal published jointly by the USSR Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society of Chemistry, UK. At present, he is the Director of Center for Personalized Medicine, Sechenov University, Russia; Chair of Dept. for Translational Medicine, Moscow Engineering Physical University and Secretary General of United Cultural Convention, Cambridge, UK.

Personalized medicine, Translational research

Marco Picichè (MD, Ph.D.) graduated with a degree in medicine from the University of Florence in 1995 and completed his cardiac surgery residency at the Tor Vergata University of Rome in 2000, both summa cum laude. He has worked as an assistant at Saint Luc Hospital, Catholic University of Louvain, Brussels (1999–2001), as a clinic head/hospital assistant at the universities of Clermont-Ferrand (2003–2004) and Montpellier (2004–2007). He held regular teaching appointments at the university of Montpellier school of medicine, obtained certification by the French Board in cardiac surgery (Paris, 2007), earned his research master in surgical science (Paris, 2007). In Canada, he authored a research project on ‘‘Noncoronary collateral circulation’’ which was submitted to the annual research competition at Québec Heart & Lung Institute, Laval University, and received the competition’s highest grant. In September 2011 he received a doctor of philosophy (Ph.D.) in therapeutic innovations from Paris-Sud University. He is the Editor in Chief of the book : Dawn and evolution of cardiac procedures : research avenues in cardiac surgery and interventional cardiology- (Springer-Verlag publishing house, September 2012). Currently he is a consultant cardiac surgeon in Italy.

Cardiac Surgery, Interventional Cardiology

Fabiola B Sozzi works as a Staff Cardiologist at University Hospital Policlinico of Milan, Italy. She has high skills in multimodality imaging of heart disease using echocardiography integrated with cardiac magnetic resonance imaging, cardiac computed tomography and nuclear. She also works in the acute clinical setting treating acute cardiac syndromes. She has expertise in Echocardiography at Thoraxcenter of Rotterdam (NL), where she defended her PhD thesis on Stress Cardiac Imaging under the supervision of Professor J Roelandt. She is a Visiting Professor at University of Milan where she leads several research projects and teaches at Faculty of Medicine and School of Specialization of Cardiology. She is an Author of 70 papers published in peer-reviewed international journals and Reviewer of several medical international journals.

Echocardiography, cardiac imaging

Sergio Mejía Viana has completed his Cardiology training and Doctorate at the University Clinic of Navarre. He was an interventional Cardiologist, Angiologist and Phlebologist for 20 years. He is a Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology, has written more than 100 scientific publications including abstracts, articles and book chapters. He returned to clinical practice with high interest in prevention. Currently, he is a Consultant at the Medical Investigation Unit in St. Bernard´s Hospital in Gibraltar.

Angiology, Atypical risk factors, Heavy metals toxicity.

Višnja Nesek Adam is anesthesiologist, emergency medicine specialist and subspecialist in intensive care medicine. She is recognised for her expertise in emergency medicine. Dr. Nesek served as Assistant Professor at JJ Strossmayer School of Medicine at the University of Osijek. Although she loves the clinical practice of anesthesia and emergency medicine, teaching students is her true passion and she was responsible for teaching medical students, residents and fellows about the anesthesia and emergency medicine. She is also Head of the University Department of anesthesiology, reanimatology and intensive care medicine and Center for emergency medicine.

Cardiac anethesiology

Galya Atanasova has completed her PhD training in Cardiology from Department of Cardiology, Pulmonology and Endocrinology at Pleven Medical University, Bulgaria. She is a General Practitioner and Cardiologist in Trainee at Pleven Medical University, Bulgaria. She specialized in General Medicine from Pleven Medical University, Bulgaria during 1993. She has attended many international events and presented her research work. She did many researches on metabolic syndrome and myocardial infarction of heart.

Preventive Cardiology, Regenerative Biology Research, Deciphering the molecular and Cellular Mechanisms, Maintenance and Differentiation of Cardiovascular Progenitors, Translational Cardiovascular Genetics, and Proteomic Analysis of Heart Disease.

Telmo Pereira is a Senior Lecturer and Researcher at the Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra, Coimbra Health School, and is the Head of the Clinical Physiology Department. In the last five year, he has developed research in the areas of Cardiovascular Prevention and Neurosciences, and has also collaborated in the development of new non-invasive technology options for the assessment of vascular function.

Cardiovascular Prevention

Manuela Stoicescu is the Consultant Internal Medicine, PhD, Assistant professor of University of Oradea, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, Medical Disciplines Department, Romania.

Internal Medicine

He completed his under graduation in 1996 from Ashwood Medical University (Texas) and Masters (MD) in internal medicine in 1999 from Belford University (Texas).

Interventional Cardiology