Prof Jose M de la Torre is an interventional cardiologist and Head of the Hemodynamics and Interventional Department of the Marques de Valdecilla University of Santander, ES.

Prof Jose M de la Torre is member of the scientific committee of the Spanish Society of Cardiology and is fellow of the European Society of Cardiology. Former associate director of the Trans Catheter Therapeutics Meeting in US. Faculty of ESC, PCR, ACC and TCT meetings. Coordinator of the ESTROFA, XIMA and LITRO study groups. 

Dr Nattawut Wongpraparut is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at The Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University in Thailand.

He received medical degree from Chulalongkorn University, Thailand in 1995. He then completed internal medicine residency (1996-1999) and cardiology fellowship (1999-2002) at Albert Einstein Medical Center, PA, USA before pursuing an interventional cardiology fellowship and peripheral vascular interventions training (2002-2004) at University of Louisville, KY, USA. 

He is a fellow of several international medical societies, including the American College of Cardiology, American College of Physicians, European Society of…

Associate Professor Nigel Jepson is Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories at the Eastern Heart Clinic and Director of the Clinical Trials Unit at the Prince of Wales Public Hospital in Sydney, Australia. He holds the position of Conjoint Professor at the University of New South Wales. Associate Professor Jepson trained in Tasmania and completed clinical and cardiac interventional training at Harefield Hospital in London and the Eastern Heart Clinic in Sydney. He is a high volume interventionalist, practicing over the last 20 years with a specific interest in bifurcation and left main-stem disease, new stent technology and intra-coronary imaging. He has performed more than 10,000 coronary procedures and heads a transcatheter aortic valve replacement program.

Associate Professor Jepson is a regular invited speaker,…

Dr Virag Kushwaha is an interventional cardiologist with special interest in the management of structural heart disease and coronary artery disease. He graduated in medicine and surgery at the University of Sydney in 2005.He completed his postgraduate training in internal medicine and cardiology at the Prince of Wales Hospital in Sydney and the Leeds General Infirmary in the UK.

Dr Kushwaha is a Senior Staff Specialist at the Prince of Wales Hospital and a visiting Medical Officer at the Prince of Wales Private Hospital, Eastern Heart Clinic, Sutherland Heart Clinic and Port Macquarie Base Hospital.

Andrew Sharp qualified from Edinburgh Medical School in 1998 and subsequently pursued an MD postgraduate research degree at the University of Edinburgh. His doctoral research focused on the hypertensive heart, establishing a foundation for his ongoing clinical and academic interest in hypertension and cardiovascular disease.

Clinical Training & Early Career

Dr Sharp completed his early clinical training at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh before moving to London for senior clinical training at the hospitals of Imperial College London. He then undertook the prestigious Milan-Imperial Interventional Cardiology Fellowship programme, which included a year in Milan at San Raffaele and Columbus Hospitals, where he trained under leading experts in interventional cardiology. This combination of UK and international training shaped his expertise in complex coronary interventions and device-based therapies.

Career Progression

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Dr Sean Gallagher is an interventional cardiologist based in Cardiff, United Kingdom. He currently serves as the Director of Interventional Cardiology at the University Hospital of Wales. Dr Gallagher has trained and worked in both the UK and internationally and is recognised for his expertise in advanced coronary intervention.

Academic History

Dr Gallagher completed his interventional cardiology training at The London Chest Hospital, where he developed advanced skills in coronary intervention. He subsequently undertook an overseas fellowship at the Ottawa Heart Institute in Canada, focusing on complex coronary procedures and interventional techniques.

Following completion of his specialist training, he was appointed as a consultant cardiologist in 2014. Alongside his clinical training, Dr Gallagher has been actively involved in academic research and has contributed to peer-reviewed publications in the field of interventional cardiology,…