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EAPC Secondary Prevention and Rehabilitation Section

The objectives of this section are:

To promote excellence in practice, research and education regarding the secondary prevention and rehabilitation of cardiovascular disease, and to offer quality standards to all healthcare providers (cardiologists, physiotherapists, clinical exercise physiologists, cardiac nurses, nutritionists, psychologists, social workers and others) and decision makers. 

The section's mission:

This mission includes, but is not limited to:

  • Enhancement of healthy lifestyles (by dietary counselling, exercise prescription/training and physical activity, psychosocial and motivational counselling/health, smoking cessation)
  • Risk factor management (e.g. obesity, diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidaemia and non-conventional risk factors)
  • Implementation of comprehensive, multidisciplinary prevention and exercise-based rehabilitation programs (centre-based and tele-rehabilitation) for persons with acquired or congenital cardiovascular disease or elevated cardiovascular risk (including challenging populations such as organ transplant recipients or persons with chronic renal failure, frailty or cancer)
  • Basic and translational research to study the underlying mechanisms involved in the health-promoting effects of secondary prevention and rehabilitation, which will contribute to optimised treatments to persons with cardiovascular disease
  • Use of digital health technologies, machine learning or artificial intelligence in the context
    of secondary prevention and rehabilitation

Section Nucleus 2024-2026

Chair: Matthias Wilhelm (CH)
Chair-elect: Véronique Cornelissen (BE)
Secretary: Andreas Gevaert (BE)
Past-Chair: Roberto Pedretti (IT)

Nucleus members:

  • Maria Back (SE)
  • Stefan Busnatu (RO)
  • Jari Laukkanen (FI)
  • Elena Marques Sule (ES)
  • Stephan Mueller (DE)
  • Daniel Neunhaeuserer (IT)
  • Elena Osto (CH)
  • Francesco Perone (IT)
  • Annett Salzwedel (DE)
  • Martijn Scherrenberg (BE)
  • Anne Grete Semb (NO)
  • Elena Tessitore (CH)
  • David R Thompson (UK)

Advisors (non-voting):

  • TBA

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