Dr Ileana L Pina is Professor at the Department of Medicine (Cardiology) and Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Population Health at Montefiore Einstein Center for Heart and Vascular Care, US. 

Dr Piña has a particular research and clinical interest in rehabilitation of heart disease in patients with heart failure. She completed a NHLBI HF ACTION trial and is in the process of examining recovery after exercise which could be translated to an additional parameter that may better predict prognosis of outcomes. In addition, there was a R21 to NHLBI to examine Vitamin D levels as another predictor from the HF ACTION database.

Dr Ileana L Pina is an Editorial Board member of Cardiac Failure Review.

Prof Stefan D Anker is a German cardiologist born in Berlin, Germany. He studied medicine at Charité Medical School of Humboldt University Berlin, where he completed his medical degree in 1993. He later pursued research training at the National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College London, completing his PhD in 1998. Following his return to Germany, Prof Anker held academic and research positions at Charité Berlin and later at University Medical Center Göttingen before returning to Charité in 2017 to serve as Professor of (Tissue) Homeostasis in Cardiology & Metabolism. His work has taken him across multiple institutions and countries through long-standing international collaborations.

Academic History

Prof Anker began his medical education at Charité Medical School, graduating in 1993. He then continued postgraduate academic training in both Germany and the United Kingdom, completing his PhD at the National Heart & Lung Institute in London…

Prof David Duncker is a cardiologist and electrophysiologist. He is Head of Hannover Heart Rhythm Center at the Department of Cardiology and Angiology at Hannover Medical School, DE.

Prof Duncker was a member of the EHRA Young EP committee 2018 to 2020 and is currently an EHRA board member and chair of the EHRA e-Communications committee 2020 to 2022.

Dr Marat Fudim is a cardiologist, advanced heart failure specialist and assistant professor at Duke University, Durham, US. He has a clinical and research interest in heart failure, including advanced therapies such as mechanical assist devices or "heart pumps" and heart transplantation.

As part of his work, Dr Fudim also performs cardiac catheterizations to understand a patient’s disease. 

Dr Westermann is Deputy Director of the Department of General and Interventional Cardiology, University Heart Centre Hamburg. He is a specialist in Internal Medicine and Cardiology

William T. Abraham, MD, grew up in western Pennsylvania near Pittsburgh, where he developed an early interest in science and medicine. He is married and has devoted the majority of his professional life to academic medicine, cardiovascular research, and the care of patients with advanced heart disease in the United States.

Academic History

Dr Abraham earned his medical degree from Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. Following graduation, he completed residency training in Internal Medicine and fellowships in Cardiovascular Disease and Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. He is board certified in Internal Medicine and in Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology.

Career Overview

Dr Abraham is a Professor of Internal Medicine, Physiology and Cell Biology and a College of Medicine Distinguished Professor at The Ohio State University College of…