Dr Zsolt Piroth is an interventional cardiologist, and serves as Deputy Head of the Adult Cardiology Department of the György Gottsegen Hungarian Institute of Cardiology, Hungary. A Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology, he is the Secretary of the Intensive Working Group of the Hungarian Society of Cardiology and was Vice-Chair of the Interventional Working Group of the Hungarian Society of Cardiology.

Dr Pieter C Smits is Director of the Interventional Cardiology Department of Maasstad Hospital Rotterdam and board member of the Dutch Heart Registration. 

Dr Smits completed his medical training in Utrecht/Nieuwegein and joined the staff at the Cardiology Department of the University Hospital Utrecht. In 1999 he became an interventional cardiologist at the Thorax Center of the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam.

Dr Gabor G Toth is an Interventional Cardiologist at the University Heart Centre Graz, Austria. He graduated from the University of Szeged, Hungary in 2007, and trained at the the Hungarian Institute of Cardiology, Budapest, and the Cardiovascular Research Centre Aalst, Belgium. His special interests include interventional cardiology and coronary physiology.

Dr Evald Høj Christiansen is an Associate Professor in the Cardiology Department of Aarhus University Hospital. He is an interventional cardiologist with 15 years' of experience in the field. His main interest is chronic total occlusions, bifurcations, coronary imaging, physiologic evaluations of coronary artery disease, and TAVR. He has performed a series of studies in this area and has conducted many clinical trials.

Dr Pasi Karjalainen is an Adjunct Professor in the Cardiology Department of Helsinki University Hospital. He has worked as an interventional cardiologist for over 20 years. His particular interests in interventional cardiology focus on acute coronary syndromes, coronary interventions and imaging and coronary physiology. He has served as Principal Investigator on several multi-centre studies, and also participated in several international multi-centre studies as a co-investigator or on steering committees.

Dr Tim Günter Schäufele is a Consultant in the Department of Cardiology at the University Hospital Bern, Switzerland.

Prior to this, he served as Head of Cathlab and Interventional Cardiology at Robert-Bosch-Krankenhaus Stuttgart, after serving as a Research Fellow in Cardiac Magnetic Imaging at the Department of Cardiology University Heidelberg.

Dr Schäufele is a Co-Founding Member of Transradial Workingroup German Cardiac Society, a Board Member of the Interventional Working Group of the German Cardiac Society, and a Full Member EuroCTO Club

Robert Gil is Head of the Department of Invasive Cardiology of the Clinical Hospital of the Ministry of the Interior and Administration (MSWiA) in Warsaw, Poland, a position he has held since 2001.

Graduating from the Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin, since 2001 Prof Gil has been part of the Expert Team handling accreditation in cardiology, as appointed by the Polish Minister of Health. In addition, since 2002 he has been a Consultant of Healthcare for cardiology for the Ministry of the Interior and Administration. Prof Gil has wide scientific and research interests including the evaluation of atherosclerotic plaque characteristic and distribution, coronary stenosis significance, treatment of complex lesions, notably bifurcation lesions using invasive diagnostic techniques that include IVUS, OCT or iFR/FFR.

Prof Gil has held a number of key positions at leading associations and professional bodies. In October 2015 he was elected a Member of the Board of the Polish Cardiac Society. He has authored or co-authored over 200 publications to leading peer-reviewed journals, many of which with a high impact factor. In addition Prof Gil lectures and presents widely at international conferences in the clinical electrophysiology and invasive cardiology spheres. He served as co-author of the guidelines of the Invasive Cardiology Section of the Polish Cardiac Society and, between 1997 and 2004, served as Chair of the Invasive Cardiology Section (Working Group) of the Polish Cardiac Society.

Dr Nicolas M Van Mieghem obtained his medical degree and cardiology degree at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. After subsequent fellowships in interventional cardiology in Ziekenhuis Oost-Limburg Genk, Belgium, Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, US and Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, he joined the department of interventional cardiology at the Thoraxcenter, Erasmus Medical Center, as a senior staff member in February 2010. 

He is involved in the percutaneous coronary interventions and structural heart program. He obtained the degree of PhD based upon his research in transcatheter valve therapies. So far he has published and co-authored approximately 130 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals. 

Dr Van Mieghem is principle investigator and steering committee member in multiple ongoing international trials evaluating various coronary and transcatheter valve technologies. He is a Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology and is currently Medical Director of the department of Interventional cardiology at the Thoraxcenter.

Prof Peter Lüdike is Senior Physician of the Heart Failure and Intensive Care section in the Department of Cardiology and Vascular Medicine at the West German Heart and Vascular Center, University Hospital Essen. He achieved Venia legendi for internal medicine in 2018 and was appointed as Full Professor for heart failure in 2020. His research interests include intensive care medicine, emergency medicine, heart failure, mitral valve disease and the role of macrophage migration inhibitory factor in the development of ischaemic heart disease.

Prof Philipp Lurz is Deputy Head of the Department at Heart Center Leipzig, Germany, a position he has held since 2018. Previously, Prof Lurz was a Clinical Research Fellow at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust. He completed his education at the University of Leipzig, and is a member of the German Society of Cardiology. Prof Luz is widely published in leading international peer-reviewed journals.

Dr Ralph Stephan von Bardeleben is the Head of the Center of Structural Heart Disease Interventions and the Heart Valve Center in Mainz, Germany. Following the completion of his medical education at the University of Mainz and the University of California in San Francisco, US, Dr Bardeleben trained as both an imager and interventional cardiologist. Since 2004 he has served as Head of the CV imaging department. A regular speaker at international events, Dr Bardeleben's department has played key roles in a number of early 'in-man' implantations and other international trials.

Prof Philip Raake is a senior physician who leads the HFU centre at the Department of Cardiology at Heidelberg University Hospital. He also runs the Interventional HF programme.

Prof Philip Raake attended medical school at the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich. Between 2006 and 2008, Prof Raake worked at the Center for Translational Medicine, under the direction of Prof Walter Koch, at the Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia.

In 2008 Prof Raake returned to Germany, where his established the first university Advanced Heart Failure Unit in Germany focusing on optimised care in advanced HF. He has authored or co-authored several papers in leading peer-reviewed journals on HF basic molecular mechanisms, and clinical aspects of advanced HF. He serves on several working groups for the German Society for Cardiology and the German Federal Physicians Association.