EAPCI Committees 2024-2026

EAPCI Advocacy and Regulatory Affairs Pillar 

Pillar Chair: Dr. Marie-Claude Morice (France)

Oversees: EAPCI Patient Advocacy Committee, EAPCI Nurses & Allied Professionals Committee and EAPCI Gender and Disparities Committee

EAPCI Patient Advocacy Committee

• Chair : Dr. Stephane Manzo-Silberman, France
• Co-Chair: Dr. Joanna J. Wykrzykowska, The Netherlands

Committee Members:

• Dr.  Andrew Chapman, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
• Ass. Prof. Domenico D'Amario, Italy
• Dr. Emanuele Gallinoro, Italy
• Dr. Ragy Hany Ibrahim, Egypt
• Mrs. Lynne Hinterbuchner, Austria
• Mr. Paul Mc Greavy, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
• Ass. Prof  Sonja Salinger, Serbia
• Dr. Sylwia Slawek-Szmyt, Poland
• Mrs. Mariette Sobels, France
• Dr. David Sulman, France
• Prof. Marta Tavares-Silva, Portugal
• Mr. Ciro Salvatore Vella, Italy
• Ass. Prof. Biljana Zafirovska Taleska, North Macedonia

EAPCI Nurses & Allied Professionals Committee

• Chair : Ms. Alison Dahlmann , France
• Co-Chair: Ms. Angeliki Kolyda , Greece

Committee Members: 

• Dr. Helena Correia, Portugal
• Mr. David Creber, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
• Dr. Iain Gillingham, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
• Mrs. Christina Marie Grima, Malta
• Mr. Andre Gruender, Germany
• Dr. Matteo Migliorini, Italy
• Mrs. Kristin Rykkje-Johannessen, Norway
• Ms. Shareefah Shereef, Kuwait
• Mrs. Katarina Sundqvist, Sweden
• Ms. Sanna Neeltje Maria Verweg, The Netherlands

EAPCI Gender and Disparities Committee

• Chair : Ass. Prof. Marta Izabela Kaluzna-Oleksy, FESC, Poland
• Co-Chair: Dr. Giulia Masiero, Italy

Committee Members:

• Dr. Clare Appleby, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
• Dr. Marta Belmonte, Belgium
• Dr. Marta Bujak, Poland
• Dr. Rita Caldeira da Rocha, Portugal
• Prof. Salvatore De Rosa, Italy
• Dr. Caterina Gandolfo, Italy
• Prof. Rania Hammami, Tunisia
• Dr. Omeir Kadri, Germany
• Dr. Alev Kilicgedik, Turkey
• Ass.Prof. Mila Kovacevic, Serbia
• Dr Jose Luis Leiva Pons, Mexico
• Dr.  Chrysavgi Simopoulou, Greece

EAPCI Congress Pillar

Pillar Chair: Prof. Julinda Mehilli (Germany)

Oversees: EAPCI Educational Content, Courses, Webinars Committee and EAPCI Congress Committee

EAPCI Educational Content, Courses, Webinars Committee

• Chair: Dr. Erik Rafflenbeul, Germany
• Co-Chair: Prof. Thomas Johnson, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Committee Members:

• Dr. Ignacio Jesus Amat Santos, Spain
• Dr. Simone Biscaglia, Italy
• Dr. Guillaume Bonnet, France
• Prof. Alp Burak Catakoglu, Turkey
• Dr. Chiara Fraccaro, Italy
• Prof. Christoph Hammerstingl, Germany
• Dr. Juan Fernando Iglesias
• Dr. Sylwia Iwanczyk, Poland
• Dr. Hikmet Kadioglu, Turkey
• Dr. Angela McInerney, Ireland
• Dr. Andi Rroku, Germany
• Dr. Ruxandra Sava, France
• Dr. Helle Soeholm, Denmark
• Dr. Maarten van Leeuwen, The Netherlands

EAPCI Congress Committee

• Chair: Dr. Valeria Paradies, The Netherlands
• Co-Chair: Dr. Mirvat Alasnag, Saudi Arabia

Committee Members:

• Ass. Prof. Kasparas Briedis, Lithuania
• Dr. Chiara De Biase, France
• Prof. Muzaffer M.  Degertekin, Turkey
• Dr. Patrick Myers, Switzerland
• Dr. Soledad Ojeda Pineda, Spain
• Dr. Catarina Quina-Rodrigues, Portugal
• Dr. Gennaro Sardella, Italy
• Dr. Luca Testa, Italy
• Ass. Prof. Mariusz Tomaniak, Poland
• Dr. Pieter Adriaan Vriesendorp, Belgium
• Dr. Yannick Willemen, Belgium

EAPCI Education Pillar

Pillar Chair: Prof. Goran Stankovic (Serbia)

Oversees: EAPCI Fellowship Grants Committee, EAPCI Accreditation, Training & Certification Committee and EAPCI Young Committee

EAPCI Fellowship Grants Committee

• Chair  Dr. Benjamin Honton, France
• Co-Chair: Ass. Prof. Mohammed Saad, Germany

Committee Members:

• Dr. Judit Andreka, Hungary
• Prof. Massimo Chessa, Italy
• Dr. Christina Grothusen, Germany
• Dr. Michalis Hamilos, Greece
• Dr. Jonathan Hinton, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
• Dr. Eduardo Infante de Oliveira, Portugal
• Dr. Davorka Lulic, Croatia
• Prof. Geraud Souteyrand, France
• Dr. Eugenio Stabile, Italy
• Dr. Helena Tizon Marcos, Spain
• Prof. Mohamed Zahran, Egypt

EAPCI Accreditation, Training and Certification Committee

• Chair: Prof. Nikos Werner, Germany
• Co-Chair: Dr. Francesco Burzotta, Italy
• Past Chair: Dr. Radoslaw Parma, Poland

Committee Members: 

• Dr. Cristina Aurigemma, Italy
• Dr. Alessandro Beneduce, Italy
• Dr. Marie-Jeanne Bertrand, France
• Dr. Giuliano Costa, Italy
• Dr. Claudia Jorge, Portugal
• Prof. Can Yucel Karabay, Turkey
• Dr. Arif Khokhar, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
• Dr. Edward Koifman, Israel
• Dr. Juergen Leick, Germany
• Dr. Fabio Mangiacapra, Italy
• Dr. Javier Martin Moreiras, Spain
• Prof. Pascal Meier, Switzerland
• Dr. Alice Moroni, Italy
• Ass. Prof. Julia Seeger, Germany
• Ass. Prof. Onur Tasar, Turkey

EAPCI Young Committee

• Chair: Dr. Mario Iannaccone, Italy
• Co-Chair: Dr. Aleksandra Gasecka, Poland

Committee Members:

• Dr. Giulia Botti, Italy
• Dr. Ilke Celikkale, Turkey
• Ass. Prof. Pawel Mariusz Gasior, Poland
• Dr. Leonidas Koliastasis, Greece
• Dr. Lennert Minten, Belgium
• Dr. Ana Rita Pereira, Portugal
• Dr. Anantharaman Ramasamy, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
• Dr. Francesca Rubino, Italy
• Dr. Aninka Saboe, Indonesia
• Dr. Antonio Sorropago, Italy
• Dr. Tatyana Storozhenko, Ukraine
• Dr. Alejandro Travieso, Spain
• Dr. Antonin Trimaille, France
• Dr. Edoardo Zancanaro, Germany

EAPCI Membership Pillar 

Pillar Chair: Dr. Jose Maria de la Torre Hernandez (Spain)

Oversees: EAPCI International Affairs & Partnership Committee, EAPCI Online & Communication Committee,  National Cardiac Societies Committee

EAPCI International Affairs & Partnership Committee

• Chair: Dr. Stefan Harb, Austria
• Co-Chair: Dr. Sarita Rao, India

Committee Members:

• Dr. Carla Romina Agatiello, Argentina
• Prof. Wail Alkashkari, Saudi Arabia
• Prof. Jin Bae Lee, South Korea
• Dr. Sonya Burgess, Australia
• Dr. George Dangas, USA
• Dr. Anass Maaroufi, Morocco
• Dr. Evandro Martins Filho, Brasil
• Prof. Roxana Mehran,  USA
• Dr. Saeko Takahashi, Japan
• Ass. Prof. Giuseppe Tarantini, Italy

EAPCI Online & Communication Committee

• Chair: Dr. Nicola Ryan, Ireland
• Co-Chair: Ass. Prof. Ali Nazmi Calik, Turkey

Committee Members

• Dr. Shatha Alalawi, Saudi Arabia
• Dr. Obayda Azizy, Germany
• Dr. Pablo Javier Baglioni ,Argentina
• Dr. Sinjini Biswas, Australia
• Dr. Fathima Aaysha Cader, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
• Dr. Claudio Guerreiro, Portugal
• Dr. Nikolaos Pyrpyris, Greece
• Dr. Helle Soeholm, Denmark
• Dr. Alessandro Sticchi, Italy
• Dr. Marco Toselli, Italy
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EAPCI National Cardiac Societies Committee

• Chair: Dr. Francesco Saia, Italy
• Co-Chair: Dr. Michal Hawranek, Poland

Committee Members:

• Dr. Leonard Simoni, Albania
• Prof. Mohamed Abed Bouraghda, Algeria
• Dr. David Baghdasaryan, Armenia
• Prof. Matthiaz Frick, Austria
• Dr. Ulvi Mirzoyev, Azerbaijan
• ProF. Walter Desmet, Belgium
• Prof. Ibrahim Terzic, Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Prof. Dobrin Vassilev, Bulgaria
• Prof. Eduard Margetic, Croatia
• Dr. Kimon Myrianthopoulos, Cyprus
• Prof. Petr Kala, Czech Republic
• Dr. Jacob Thomsen Lønborg, Denmark
• Prof. Ahmed Magdy, Egypt
• Dr. Hanna Tormilainen, Finland
• Prof. Eric van Belle, France
• Prof. Alexander Ghanem, Germany
• Dr. Georgios Triantis, Greece
• Dr. Daniel Aradi, Hungary
• Dr. Ingibjorg J. Gudmundsdottir, Iceland
• Dr. Stephen O'Connor, Ireland
• Prof. Sa'ar Minha, Israel
• Dr. Orazbek Sakhov, Kazakhstan
• Prof. Erkin Mirrakhimov , Kyrgyzstan
• Prof. Andrej Erglis, Latvia
• Dr. Ali El-Sayed, Lebanon
• Dr. Ali Alneihum, Libya
• Prof. Giedrius Davidavicius, Lithuania
• Dr. Robert George Xuereb, Malta
• Dr. Marije Vis, Netherlands
• Prof. Jorgo Kostov, North Macedonia 
• Prof. Olav Magne Leiren, Norway
• Dr. Rita Calé, Portugal
• Dr. Lucian Calmac, Romania
• Dr. Zviad Kereselidze, Republic of Georgia
• Prof. Shpend Elezi, Republic of Kosovo
• Prof. Milovan Petrovic, Serbia
• Dr. Martin Hudec, Slovakia
• Dr. Matjaz Bunc, Slovenia
• Dr Belén Cid Alvarez, Spain
• Dr. Rickard Linder, Sweden
• Prof. Oliver Gaemperli, Switzerland
• Dr. Selim Boudiche, Tunisia
• Prof. Teoman Kilic, Turkey
• Prof. Maksym Sokolov, Ukraine
• Prof. David Hildick-Smith, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
• Dr. Shukhrat Salakhitdinov, Uzbekistan

EAPCI Science & Research Pillar

Chair: Prof. Marco Valgimigli (Switzerland)

Oversees: EAPCI Research Initiatives & Innovation Committee, EAPCI Valvular and Structural Heart Interventions Committee, and EAPCI Scientific Documents Committee

EAPCI Research Initiatives & Innovation Committee

• Chair: Prof. Giulio Stefanini, Italy
• Co-Chair: Prof. Piotr Buszman, FESC, Poland

Committee Members

• Dr. Kamil Bujak, Poland
• Dr. Marco Gamardella, Italy
• Dr. Daniele Giacoppo, Italy
• Dr. Rasha Al Lamee, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
• Dr. Miguel Nobre Menezes, Portugal
• Ass. Prof. Raffaele Piccolo, Italy
• Dr. Francesca Sanguineti, France
• Dr. Irene Santos-Pardo, Sweden
• Dr. Jorge Sanz Sanchez,  Spain
• Ass. Prof. Jolanta Siller-Matula, Austria
• Dr. Hatice Tolunay, Turkey
• Dr. Dimitrios Vrachatis, Greece

EAPCI Valvular and Structural Heart Interventions Committee

• Chair: Prof. Nicole Karam, France
• Co-Chair: Dr. Fabien Praz, Switzerland

Committee members:

• Ass. Prof. Marianna Adamo, Italy
• Ass. Prof. Ole De Backer, Denmark
• Prof. Ignacio Cruz-Gonzalez, Spain
• Dr. Joana Delgado Silva, Portugal 
• Prof. Romain Didier, France
• Ass. Prof. Julia Grapsa, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
• Prof. Zenon Huczek, Poland
• Prof. Francesco Maisano, Italy
• Dr. Jose M Montero Cabezas, The Netherlands
• Prof. Tanja Rudolph, Germany
• Dr. Eike Philipp Tigges, Germany

EAPCI Scientific Documents Committee

• Chair: Prof. Felix Mahfoud, Germany
• Co-Chair: Ass. Prof. Anna Franzone, Italy

Committee Members:

• Dr. Nicolas Amabile, France
• Prof. Gianluca Campo, Italy
• Dr. Nieves Gonzalo Lopez, Spain
• Dr. Vasileios Panoulas, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
• Dr. Giovanna Sarno, Sweden
• Dr. Roberto Scarsini, Italy
• Ass. Prof. Barbara Elisabeth Stahli, Switzerland
• Dr. Gabor Toth, Austria
• Prof. Dirk Westermann, Germany
• Prof. Wojciech Wojakowski, Poland