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Prof Stefan Anker is professor of (Tissue) Homeostasis in Cardiology & Metabolism at Charité Berlin, Germany, since June 2017. Prodigious researcher who has authored more than 1,000 articles. He has also won several prizes, including the 2018 Copernicus Prize of German DFG & Polish FNP. In October 2020, he was awarded a Doctor honoris causa of Medical University Wroclaw, Poland.

Prof Anker has been serving on the board of the Heart Failure Association (HFA) of the ESC since 2006 and was HFA President from 2012 to 2014. He currently chairs the HFA committee on regulatory affairs. He is founding Editor-in-Chief of the first open-access heart failure journal, ESC Heart Failure. Prof. Anker has served on several ESC Guideline task forces.

Prof Anker is the founding president of the International Society on Sarcopenia, Cachexia and Wasting Disorders (SCWD) and founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and…

Dr Clara Saldarriaga is an Editorial Board member of Cardiac Failure Review and may be contacted here.

Academic History

Dr Saldarriaga completed her undergraduate studies in Medicine at the Jesus Maria School in Medellin in 1994 and went on to continue her studies at the Medical School at the University of Antioquia in 2002. She then went on to complete her Internal Medicine Residency at the University of Antioquia in 2008.

Career Overview

Dr Saldarriaga is currently a Professor of Cardiology at Cardiovascular Clinic Santa Maria at the University of Antioquia in Medellín. She is a member of…

Personal History

Dr Milton Packer was born to Polish immigrants in 1951 and raised in Philadelphia, US. Prior to studying medicine, he was politically active in the 1960s. In his words: “The focus of my upbringing was education, but the major guiding principle in my childhood years (and throughout my entire life) was an uncompromising sense of justice. I was always imbued with the need to strive for and defend the truth.” He began his career in cardiology during a pivotal time for the field, just as interventional cardiology and

Dr Shelley Zieroth is Professor at the College of Medicine, Max Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, as well as Director of the Heart Failure and Heart Transplant Clinics at St Boniface Hospital in Winnipeg, Canada. She is also Head of the Medical Heart Failure Program for Cardiac Sciences Manitoba.

She is involved in several heart failure clinical trials as a PI, National Lead or Executive Committee member. She is the Past President of the Canadian Heart Failure Society and Co-Chair of the Canadian Cardiovascular Society Heart Failure Guidelines. She is co-chair of Canada’s largest annual heart failure meeting, HF Update, and Past President of the Federation of Medical Women of Canada.

Dr Shelley Zieroth is an Editorial Board member of Cardiac Failure Review.

Dr Vaduganathan is a Cardiologist and clinical trialist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He is co-director of the Center for Cardiometabolic Implementation Science at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is a co-chair of a Heart Failure Collaboratory committee focused on improving future clinical trials in heart failure, and serves on the planning committee of the Global CardioVascular Clinical Trialists Forum. He is a Section Editor of the Fellows-in-Training / Early Career section of JACC, Associate Editor of JACC Heart Failure, and serves on the editorial board of the European Journal of Heart Failure. His research focuses on drug development, clinical trials, and implementation of cardio-renal-metabolic therapies, and he has authored or co-authored more than 500 peer-reviewed publications. He participates on study leadership and on committees of ongoing advanced-phase trials in cardiometabolic medicine and heart failure.…

Dr Deepak Bhatt is Executive Director of Interventional Cardiovascular Programs at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Dr Bhatt has more than 1,600 publications and has been listed by the Web of Science as a Highly Cited Researcher.

He is Editor of the peer-reviewed Journal of Invasive Cardiology and Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Heart Letter for patients. He received the Eugene Braunwald Teaching Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Clinical Cardiology from Brigham and Women’s Hospital in 2017, ACC’s Distinguished Mentor Award in 2018, and AHA’s Distinguished Scientist Award in 2019.