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EAPCI Committees 2024-2026

For the term May 2024 – May 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

Title
Name
Country
Chair Dr. Stephane Manzo-Silberman France
Co-Chair Dr. Joanna J. Wykrzykowska The Netherlands
Committee Member Dr.  Andrew Chapman United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Committee Member Ass. Prof. Domenico D'Amario Italy
Committee Member Dr. Emanuele Gallinoro Italy
Committee Member Dr. Ragy Hany Ibrahim Egypt
Committee Member Mrs. Lynne Hinterbuchner Austria
Committee Member Mr. Paul Mc Greavy United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Committee Member Ass. Prof  Sonja Salinger Serbia
Committee Member Dr. Sylwia Slawek-Szmyt Poland
Committee Member Dr. David Sulman France
Committee Member Prof. Marta Tavares-Silva Portugal
Committee Member Mr. Ciro Salvatore Vella Italy
Committee Member Ass. Prof. Biljana Zafirovska Taleska North Macedonia

EAPCI Nurses & Allied Professionals Committee

 
Title
Name
Country
Chair Ms. Alison Dahlmann France
Co-Chair Ms. Angeliki Kolyda Greece
Committee Member Dr. Helena Correia Portugal
Committee Member Mr. David Creber United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Committee Member Dr. Iain Gillingham United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Committee Member
Mrs. Christina Marie Grima
Malta
Committee Member Mr. Andre Gruender Germany
Committee Member Dr. Matteo Migliorini Italy
Committee Member Mrs. Kristin Rykkje-Johannessen Norway
Committee Member Ms. Shareefah Shereef Kuwait
Committee Member Mrs. Katarina Sundqvist Sweden
Committee Member Ms. Sanna Neeltje Maria Verweg The Netherlands

EAPCI Gender and Disparities Committee

Title Name Country
Chair Ass. Prof. Marta Izabela Kaluzna-Oleksy, FESC Poland
Co-Chair Dr. Giulia Masiero Italy
Committee Member Dr. Clare Appleby United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Committee Member Dr. Marta Belmonte Belgium
Committee Member Dr. Marta Bujak Poland
Committee Member Dr. Rita Caldeira da Rocha Portugal
Committee Member Prof. Salvatore De Rosa Italy
Committee Member Dr. Caterina Gandolfo  Italy
Committee Member Prof. Rania Hammami Tunisia
Committee Member Dr. Omeir Kadri Germany
Committee Member Ass.Prof. Mila Kovacevic Serbia
Committee Member Dr Jose Luis Leiva Pons Mexico
Committee Member 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

Title Name   Country
Chair Dr. Erik Rafflenbeul Germany
Co-Chair Prof. Thomas Johnson United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Committee Member Dr. Ignacio Jesus Amat Santos Spain
Committee Member Dr. Simone Biscaglia Italy
Committee Member Dr. Guillaume Bonnet France
Committee Member Dr. Chiara Fraccaro Italy
Committee Member Prof. Christoph Hammerstingl Germany
Committee Member Dr. Juan Fernando Iglesias Switzerland
Committee Member Dr. Sylwia Iwanczyk Poland
Committee Member Dr. Hikmet Kadioglu Turkey
Committee Member Dr. Angela McInerney Ireland
Committee Member Dr. Andi Rroku   Germany
Committee Member Dr. Ruxandra Sava France
Committee Member Dr. Helle Soeholm Denmark
Committee Member Dr. Maarten van Leeuwen The Netherlands

EAPCI Congress Committee

Title Name Country
Chair Dr. Valeria Paradies The Netherlands
Co-Chair Dr. Mirvat Alasnag Saudi Arabia
Committee member Ass. Prof. Kasparas Briedis Lithuania
Committee member Dr. Chiara De Biase France
Committee member Prof. Muzaffer M.  Degertekin Turkey
Committee member Dr. Patrick Myers Switzerland
Committee member Dr. Soledad Ojeda Pineda Spain
Committee member Dr. Catarina Quina-Rodrigues Portugal
Committee member Dr. Gennaro Sardella Italy
Committee member Dr. Luca Testa Italy
Committee member Ass. Prof. Mariusz Tomaniak Poland
Committee member Dr. Pieter Adriaan Vriesendorp Belgium
Committee member 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

Title
Name
Country
Chair  Dr. Benjamin Honton  France
Co-Chair Ass. Prof. Mohammed Saad Germany
Committee member Dr. Judit Andreka Hungary
Committee member Prof. Massimo Chessa Italy
Committee member Dr. Christina Grothusen Germany
Committee member Dr. Michalis Hamilos Greece
Committee member Dr. Jonathan Hinton United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Committee member Dr. Eduardo Infante de Oliveira Portugal
Committee member Dr. Davorka Lulic Croatia
Committee member Prof. Geraud Souteyrand France
Committee member Dr. Eugenio Stabile Italy
Committee member Dr. Helena Tizon Marcos Spain
Committee member Prof. Mohamed Zahran Egypt

 

EAPCI Accreditation, Training and Certification Committee

Title Name Country
Chair Prof. Nikos Werner Germany
Co-Chair Dr. Francesco Burzotta  Italy
Past Chair Dr. Radoslaw Parma Poland
Committee Member Dr. Cristina Aurigemma Italy
Committee Member Dr. Alessandro Beneduce Italy
Committee Member Dr. Marie-Jeanne Bertrand France
Committee Member Dr. Giuliano Costa Italy
Committee Member Dr. Claudia Jorge Portugal
Committee Member Prof. Can Yucel Karabay Turkey
Committee Member Dr. Arif Khokhar United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Committee Member Dr. Edward Koifman Israel
Committee Member Dr. Juergen Leick Germany
Committee Member Dr. Fabio Mangiacapra Italy
Committee Member Dr. Javier Martin Moreiras Spain
Committee Member Prof. Pascal Meier  Switzerland
Committee Member Dr. Alice Moroni Italy
Committee Member Ass. Prof. Julia Seeger Germany
Committee Member Ass. Prof. Onur Tasar Turkey

EAPCI Young Committee

Title Name Country
Chair Dr. Mario Iannaccone Italy
Co-Chair Dr. Aleksandra Gasecka Poland
Committee member Dr. Giulia Botti Italy
Committee member Dr. Ilke Celikkale Turkey
Committee member Ass. Prof. Pawel Mariusz Gasior Poland
Committee member Dr. Leonidas Koliastasis Greece
Committee member Dr. Lennert Minten Belgium
Committee member Dr. Ana Rita Pereira Portugal
Committee member Dr. Anantharaman Ramasamy United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Committee member Dr. Francesca Rubino Italy
Committee member Dr. Aninka Saboe Indonesia
Committee member Dr. Antonio Sorropago Italy
Committee member Dr. Tatyana Storozhenko Ukraine
Committee member Dr. Alejandro Travieso Spain
Committee member 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

Title Name Country
Chair Dr. Stefan Harb Austria
Co-Chair Dr. Sarita Rao India
Committee member Dr. Carla Romina Agatiello Argentina
Committee member Prof. Wail Alkashkari Saudi Arabia
Committee member Prof. Jin Bae Lee South Korea
Committee member Dr. George Dangas  USA
Committee member Dr. Anass Maaroufi Morocco
Committee member Dr. Evandro Martins Filho Brasil
Committee member Prof. Roxana Mehran  USA
Committee member Dr. Saeko Takahashi Japan
Committee member Ass. Prof. Giuseppe Tarantini Italy

EAPCI Online & Communication Committee

Title Name Country
Chair Dr. Nicola Ryan Ireland
Co-Chair Ass. Prof. Ali Nazmi Calik Turkey
Committee member Dr. Shatha Alalawi Saudi Arabia
Committee member Dr. Obayda Azizy Germany

Committee member

Dr. Pablo Javier Baglioni Argentina
Committee member Dr. Sinjini Biswas Australia
Committee member Dr. Fathima Aaysha Cader United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Committee member Dr. Claudio Guerreiro Portugal
Committee member Dr. Nikolaos Pyrpyris Greece
Committee member Dr. Helle Soeholm Denmark
Committee member Dr. Alessandro Sticchi Italy
Committee member Dr. Marco Toselli Italy

EAPCI National Cardiac Societies Committee

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

Title Name Country
Chair Prof. Giulio Stefanini Italy
Co-Chair Prof. Piotr Buszman, FESC Poland
Committee Member Dr. Kamil Bujak Poland
Committee Member Dr. Roberto Diletti The Netherlands
Committee Member Dr. Marco Gamardella Italy
Committee Member Dr. Daniele Giacoppo Italy
Committee Member Dr. Rasha Al Lamee  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Committee Member Dr. Miguel Nobre Menezes Portugal
Committee Member Ass. Prof. Raffaele Piccolo Italy
Committee Member Dr. Francesca Sanguineti France
Committee Member Dr. Irene Santos-Pardo Sweden
Committee Member Dr. Jorge Sanz Sanchez  Spain
Committee Member Ass. Prof. Jolanta Siller-Matula Austria
Committee Member Dr. Dimitrios Vrachatis Greece

 

EAPCI Valvular and Structural Heart Interventions Committee

Title Name Country
Chair Prof. Nicole Karam France
Co-Chair Dr. Fabien Praz Switzerland
Committee members  Ass. Prof. Marianna Adamo Italy
Committee members  Ass. Prof. Ole De Backer Denmark
Committee members  Prof. Ignacio Cruz-Gonzalez Spain
Committee members  Dr. Joana Delgado Silva Portugal 
Committee members  Prof. Romain Didier France
Committee members  Ass. Prof. Julia Grapsa United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Committee members  Dr. Jose M Montero Cabezas The Netherlands
Committee members  Prof. Tanja Rudolph Germany
Committee members  Dr. Eike Philipp Tigges Germany

 

 

EAPCI Scientific Documents Committee

Title Name Country
Chair Prof. Felix Mahfoud Germany
Co-Chair Ass. Prof. Anna Franzone  Italy
Committee member Dr. Nicolas Amabile France
Committee member Prof. Gianluca Campo Italy
Committee member Dr. Nieves Gonzalo Lopez Spain
Committee member Dr. Vasileios Panoulas United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Committee member Dr. Giovanna Sarno Sweden
Committee member Dr. Roberto Scarsini Italy
Committee member Ass. Prof. Barbara Elisabeth Stahli Switzerland
Committee member Dr. Gabor Toth Austria
Committee member Prof. Dirk Westermann Germany
Committee member Prof. Wojciech Wojakowski Poland