Lifelong Aortic Stenosis Management: Life Beyond The First Procedure

Dr Victoria Delgado is a board certified cardiologist with specific expertise in multimodality imaging, Assistant professor of Cardiology at the Leiden University Medical Center. For the past 13 years, she has been actively performing research in the field of cardiac mechanics and underlying pathophysiological mechanisms of heart failure in various cardiac diseases, particularly in valvular heart disease and coronary artery disease.

Victoria has been board member of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (councillor and chair of scientific documents), task force member of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Guidelines, member of the ESC Guidelines committee and Congress Programme Committee and currently ESC board member. Furthermore, she is an associate editor of Circulation and Journal of American Society of Echocardiography.

Dr Jan-Malte Sinning is an interventional cardiologist and a full professor for internal medicine/cardiology working in the St Vincent Hospital Cologne, DE. He studied medicine at the University of Cologne and completed his residency and fellowship at the University Hospital Bonn, DE.

His special scientific interest includes interventional cardiology with main focus on complex coronary interventions and catheter-based heart valve therapy. He is recognised for his publications in the field of transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI). Dr Sinning's research group is focussing on the diagnosis of heart valve disease especially hemodynamic measurements and biomarkers in patients with aortic stenosis and the pathophysiology after TAVI.

Medical University of Silesia in Katowice | SUM | Division of Cardiology and Structural Heart Disease 

Professor Martine Gilard, MD, PhD, FESC is the Director of Interventional Cardiology department at Brest Hospital University. She is also responsible for the cardiac imaging department (MSCT and MRI). She specializes in endocoronary imaging and physiology. She performs all structural interventions except the left appendage closure within the department. She is past president of the French Society of Cardiology since 2020 and has been involved in the EAPCI association since 2009.

Philippe Pibarot is Full Professor at the Department of Medicine of Laval University, Canada. He also serves as Director of the Research Group in Valvular Heart Diseases at the Quebec Heart and Lung Institute. He received his doctorate from the University Claude Bernard, France, and his PhD in biomedical sciences from the University of Montreal, Canada. Dr Pibarot has been the recipient of numerous awards including the Annual Achievement Award of the Canadian Society of Echocardiography, and the Research Achievement Award of the Canadian Cardiovascular Society. His key interests include valvular heart diseases, cardiovascular surgery, heart valve diseases, and pulmonary hypertension.  

MD,PhD

Cardiologist, Echocardiographer, specialist in Interventional echocardiography, Head of the EchoLab, Tours University Hospital, Expertise in Valvular Heart Disease and Cardiovascular Imaging, Head of the Simulation Training center MEDISIM Tours, University of Tours

Board member of the Société Française de Cardiology (SFC), President-elect of the Filiale d’Imagerie Cardiovasculaire (SFC), Board member of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging Women Task Force

Dr David Wood works as an interventional cardiologist at Vancouver General Hospital.

David is a professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of British Columbia and a co-founding member of the Centre for Heart Valve Innovation in Vancouver.

He serves as the President of the Canadian Association of Interventional Cardiology.