Chronic Total Occlusions (CTO): 60 Second Insights

Published: 08 March 2018

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Overview

A series of 60-second interviews where Ajay Kirtane, Simon Walsh, Paul Knappen, Emmanouil Brilakis, Carlos Di Mario, Partick Serruys and Gerald Werner provide their thoughts on CTOs.

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Faculty Biographies

Paul Knaapen

Paul Knaapen

Interventional Cardiologist and Professor

Personal History

Dr Paul Knaapen is an Interventional Cardiologist, the Director of Cardiac PET/CT and a Professor of Interventional Cardiology at Amsterdam UMC, Netherlands. 4

 

Academic History

Dr Knaapen received his M.D. from the VU University School of Medicine. He then completed his internship, residency and interventional cardiology fellowship at the VU University Medical Center.5

 

Career Overview

Dr Knaapen is Professor of Cardiac Intervention and Imaging, Division of Cardiology at the VU University Medical Center, where his major research interest is the clinical value of non‐invasive cardiac imaging, with a particular focus on hybrid PET/CT and chronic total occlusions (CTOs).5

As a clinical researcher, he has co-authored 223 peer-reviewed articles and participated in 7…

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