Dr Greene is a cardiologist with a clinical and research interest in improving quality of care and outcomes for patients with heart failure.  He has been a co-investigator and co-author of multiple national and international heart failure trials studying medical therapies for heart failure. He has also served on leadership committees and led multiple analyses from national and international heart failure registries characterising the quality of heart failure care.  Dr Greene’s collaborative work has led to more than 350 publications in peer-reviewed journals.  

Prof Mitja Lainscak is a Professor in the Division of Cardiology at University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, SI. He is also Director of the Slovenian Research Agency.

Dr Stone is a leading expert in interventional cardiology and is one of the most widely cited researchers in science. He has served as the principal investigator for approximately 130 national and international multicentre randomised trials, has delivered thousands of lectures internationally, and has authored more than 2,500 book chapters, manuscripts and abstracts published in peer-reviewed literature.

Dr Stone is the Director of Academic Affairs for Mount Sinai Heart Health System, and Professor of Medicine and Professor of Population Health Sciences and Policy at The Zena and Michael A Wiener Cardiovascular Institute, Icahn School of Medicine, at Mount Sinai, New York.

Dr Gregg Stone is an editorial board member of Interventional Cardiology: Reviews, Research, Resources (ICR3).

From 1973 to 1979, Sievert studied human medicine at the universities of Mainz and Frankfurt. In 1979 he passed the medical state examination top of his class and received his licence to practise. In 1980 he completed his doctorate (Dr. med.) in angiology, awarded magna cum laude.

He then underwent postgraduate training in internal medicine, nephrology, and intensive care medicine at the city hospital in Offenbach. In 1987 he was certified in internal medicine, and in 1988 he gained the cardiology subspecialty designation at University Hospital Frankfurt. He further acquired subspecialties in angiology (1996) and intensive-care medicine (1997). In 1990 he completed his habilitation in interventional cardiology.

Career Overview

In 1990, Horst Sievert became Chief Physician of Cardiology at the Heart and Circulation Center in Rotenburg, where he established and led one of Germany’s largest interventional-cardiology departments until 1993. He then…

Prof Ralph Stephan von Bardeleben is the Head of the Center of Structural Heart Disease Interventions and the Heart Valve Center in Mainz, Germany 

Prof Bardeleben is Past-President of the German working group on Echocardiography of the German Society of Cardiology and a member of several medical societies. He serves on the Clinical Program commission and at your region program of the ESC and is a reviewer for several peer-reviewed journals. Newly elected co-editor-in-chief of Echocardiography Journal.

He participates as PI, steering committee member and core laboratory in several medical device trials, including a German Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (BfArM)-approved first- or early-in-human medical device implant trials.