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.

Jose L Zamorano is Professor of Medicine at the University Alcala de Henares, Madrid, and the Chief of Cardiology at the University Hospital Ramón y Cajal.

Prof Zamorano’s has a broad range of research interests including heart failure, ischaemic heart disease, cardiovascular risk factors and cardiovascular imaging modalities. Within these fields, Prof Zamorano he is widely published with over 500 articles and twenty books including the European Textbook of Cardiovascular Imaging. 

Dr Victoria Delgado is a board-certified cardiologist specialising in cardiovascular imaging and currently based in Leiden, the Netherlands. She works at Leiden University Medical Center, where she combines clinical practice with academic research and teaching. Over the past decade, she has become internationally recognised for her contributions to cardiovascular imaging and heart failure research.

Academic History

Dr Delgado completed her medical training and cardiology specialisation with a strong focus on cardiovascular imaging. She pursued advanced training in multimodality cardiac imaging, developing expertise across echocardiography, cardiac magnetic resonance imaging and cardiac computed tomography.

She is currently an Assistant Professor of Cardiology at Leiden University Medical Center, where she is actively involved in mentoring medical students, residents and fellows, while leading research initiatives in cardiac imaging…

Prof Davide Capodanno is Professor of Cardiology at the University of Catania and Interventional Cardiologist at the Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria “Policlinico G. Rodolico-S. Marco”, Catania, IT. He is internationally recognised for his expertise in interventional cardiology, thrombosis and cardiovascular clinical research.

With over 500 peer-reviewed publications, five interventional cardiology textbooks and 17 textbook chapters, Prof Capodanno is a prolific author and respected speaker, having delivered more than 200 invited lectures at global cardiology congresses. He is Co-Director of the PCR Clinical Research Course and Associate Director of TCT, two leading platforms for education in cardiovascular interventions.

Prof Capodanno is Editor-in-Chief of EuroIntervention, Associate Editor of the

Dr Sasha Koul is an Associate Professor and Senior Consultant of Internal Medicine and Cardiology at Lund University Hospital, in Sweden.

Dr Koul is an invited speaker and widely published in peer-reviewed articles and scientific publications.