Academic History

Michael Böhm studied medicine from 1977 to 1984 at the Medical School of Hannover (MHH), Germany. During 1979–1981, he completed his doctoral thesis at the Centre for Toxicology and Pharmacology at MHH. He then spent time (1982) at the Tufts University, Boston, USA. Following that, from 1982–1984 he worked as a scientific assistant at the University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf (division of general pharmacology). From 1986 to 1993, he trained in internal medicine and cardiology at the Medizinische Klinik I, Klinikum Großhadern, of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. In 1993 he obtained his habilitation and became assistant professor of internal medicine/cardiology at the Universität zu Köln (University of Cologne). Between 1995 and 2000 he held a C3-Professorship there; in 2000 he was appointed to a C4-Professorship for Internal Medicine with focus on Cardiology/Angiology at the Saarland University, Homburg/Saar, Germany — at which time he became…

Prof Frieder Braunschweig is the Director of Cardiology at Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, SE and a Professor at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, SE.

His clinical focus areas include invasive electrophysiology, cardiac pacing, heart failure and sports cardiology. 

Prof John McMurray is Professor of Medical Cardiology and Deputy Director of the Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences at the University of Glasgow, and honorary Consultant Cardiologist at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow. A graduate of Manchester University, Prof McMurray completed postgraduate research at the University of Dundee.

Prof McMurray is a Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association as well as the medical Royal Colleges in Edinburgh and Glasgow and the Royal Society of Edinburgh and UK Academy of Medical Sciences.

Prof Gianluigi Savarese is currently an Associate Professor of Cardiology and Heart Failure Specialist at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. 

Prof Savarese has served on the board for the European Society of Cardiology's Heart Failure Association since 2020, and has previously been a Nucleus member of a working group on Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy for the ESC. He is a member of the Italian Society of Cardiology, and the Swedish Society of Cardiology. 

Prof Savarese attended the University of Naples Federico II University for his degree in Surgery and Medicine between 2004 - 2010. He then went on to stay at the same institution until 2016 as he completed his Specialism in Cardiovascular Diseases. He then continued his postgraduate studies at the University of Zurich between 2015-2017, where he continued his studies into Heart Failure. Finally, Prof Savarese completed his PhD at the Karolinska Institutet in 2018. 

Prof Savarese has…

Prof Marianna Adamo is an interventional cardiologist and heart failure physician, and Associate Professor at the University of Brescia, Italy. Her clinical and research interests focus on structural heart interventions, including transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI), with particular emphasis on patient selection, procedural optimisation, and long-term outcomes. Prof Adamo is actively involved in international research collaborations and frequently contributes to leading cardiology congresses and publications.