Didier Tchétché, (Clinique Pasteur, Toulouse, France) Graduated from the University of Paris V where Dr Tchétché obtained his post-graduate diploma of cardiovascular pathology in 2004. From 2004 to 2005, he completed a 12-month fellowship period in the Hemodynamic and Interventional Cardiology department of Clinique Pasteur in Toulouse and from 2005 to 2007 he was Head Assistant at the intensive care unit of Bichât Hospital in Paris.

In 2008, he joined the interventional cardiovascular group in Clinique Pasteur, Toulouse, and he is currently Head of the Structural programme with an experience of more than 5000 TAVI procedures. His main areas of interest are coronary interventions and valvular heart disease. He has been actively involved in many clinical trials involving new technologies and devices in the field of interventional cardiology.

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. Philipp is widely published in leading international peer-reviewed journals.

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 Nicole Karam is an associate professor in the Department of Cardiology at the European Hospital Georges Pompidou. She specializes in interventional cardiology and performs both coronary and valvular percutaneous surgeries, as well as research in Cardiovascular Epidemiology at the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research.

After starting her medical studies at Saint-Joseph University in Beirut, she moved to Paris in 2010 and specialized in Interventional Cardiology. Subsequently, she trained in a highly specialized center for valvular heart disease in Munich, Germany, where she learned new techniques in percutaneous valvular interventions that she later brought back to Georges Pompidou Hospital.

Prof Karam is an active member and a fellow of the European Society of Cardiology, and a member of the steering committee of the Women’s European Association of Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions. 

Dr Andreas Rück is the head of the Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) program at Karolinska University Hospital – Stockholm, Sweden and the chairman of the Swedish Percutaneous Valve Registry (a registry within the Swedish Heart Registries SWEDEHEART). He is member of the steering group of SWEDEHEART and of the Working group for PCI and Valve Interventions within the Swedish Society of Cardiology. His clinical specialties include PCI and percutaneous valve implantation.

Dr Sam Dawkins is a Consultant Cardiologist at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford. He has expertise in general cardiology, interventional cardiology and is a specialist in valve intervention, including TAVI and MitraClip. 

An interventional cardiologist expert in the field of valvular and coronary heart diseases, Prof Dr Jorg Hausleiter is Professor of Medicine and the Deputy Clinic Director at the Ludwig-Maximilians Universitat in Munich, Germany. He is invested in bringing new and innovative technologies into clinical practice.

Dr Michael Böhm performed his medical training at the Medical School of Hannover in Germany. Residency in Internal Medicine and fellowships in Cardiology at the Ludwig Maximilians-Unversity in Munich/Germany at the Klinikum Großhadern; Heisenberg Graduate of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft; Assistant and Associate Dr of Internal Medicine and Cardiology at the Universität zu Köln in Germany.

Dr Böhm is Director of the Klinik für Innere Medizin III and Chief of Cardiology at the University of the Saarland in Homburg/Saar in Germany. Dr Böhm's special interest includes pathophysiology and therapy of heart failure. Particular, he is involved in studies on signal transduction in the failing heart and in vascular biology. Dr Böhm has been the principal investigator in several international multicenter studies. He has written more than 350 original papers, book chapters and review articles. He has obtained several awards of scientific societies. Dr Böhm is a reviewer for most recognized scientific journals in the cardiovascular field and chief editor Clinical Research in Cardiology. He is president of the German Society of Cardiology.

Dr Michael Böhm is an Editorial Board member of Cardiac Failure Review.

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.