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Author(s): Gianfranco Sinagra , Michele Moretti , Giancarlo Vitrella , et al Added: 3 years ago
According to the latest position statement of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), cardiomyopathies (CMP) are defined as “myocardial disorders in which the heart muscle is structurally and functionally abnormal, in the absence of coronary artery disease, hypertension, valvular disease and congenital heart disease sufficient to cause the observed myocardial abnormality”.1 CMP may be… View more

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Heart Failure
Aaron Isaacs
Personal History Dr Aaron Isaacs is based in the Netherlands, where he works in the Department of Physiology, Cardiovascular Research Institute Maastricht at Maastricht University. Academic History Dr Aaron Isaacs completed his baccalaureate degree at the University of California, Berkeley in 1994. In 2002, he moved to the Netherlands, where he embarked on his PhD studies in genetic… View more
Christian Ruff
Dr. Christian Thomas Ruff, MD, MPH serves as the Director of the Genetics Core Laboratory and holds the position of Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, based at Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.With a diverse educational background, Dr. Ruff graduated from Harvard University with a degree in Neurobiology before earning his medical degree at… View more
Christine E Seidman
Job title: Director, Cardiovascular Genetics Center / Professor
Dr Christine E Seidman is the director of the Cardiovascular Genetics Program and a cardiovascular medicine specialist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Thomas W. Smith Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She received her medical degree from The George Washington School of Medicine and Health Sciences. She completed an internal medicine residency at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and a… View more
Heribert Schunkert
Job title: Director of Department / Medical director of DHM
Dr Heribert Schunkert, MD is Professor for Cardiology at the Technische Universität München as well as Director of the Cardiology Dept. and Medical Director of the German Heart Centre Munich. From 2002-2012 Prof. Schunkert was Director of the Dept. for Internal Medicine and Cardiology at the University of Lübeck. In October 2012 Prof. Schunkert he was offered the Chair in Cardiology in Munich… View more
Pradeep Natarajan
Job title: Director of Preventive Cardiology
Dr Pradeep Natarajan is Director of Preventive Cardiology at Massachusetts General Hospital, Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and Associate Member of the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT. Dr Natarajan researches the inherited basis of human atherosclerosis using genetic epidemiology, large-scale sequencing studies, genotype-driven human investigation, and genetic… View more
Perry Elliott
Research Area(s) / Expertise: Job title: Professor in Inherited Cardiovascular Disease
Personal History Professor Perry Mark Elliott was born on December 7, 1963, in London.6 He is a Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at University College London (UCL) and a Senior Investigator of the UK National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). He is Director of the UCL Centre for Heart Muscle Disease, Head of Clinical Research at the Institute of Cardiovascular Science UCL and a… View more
Marie-Josee Van Rijn
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Venous Disease - General

 Job title: MD, PhD, Vascular Surgeon - Epidemiologist
Dr Van Rijn finished writing and defending her thesis Dissecting the genetics of stroke in 2007. After that she has done research in the field of both aortic and venous disease with publications in peer-reviewed journals and has written several book chapters on these subjects. Dr Van Rijn organizes the conference Intoveins, which is held every other year in Rotterdam. She is the leading… View more