Professor Thomas Modine is a cardiovascular surgeon with an international academic and clinical career spanning France and China. He holds a professorship in cardiovascular surgery at Bordeaux University Hospital in Bordeaux, France, and is currently practising as a Consultant Cardiac Surgeon at Lille University Hospital. In addition, he serves as Professor at Jiao Tong University in Shanghai. He is widely recognised for his contributions to the development of advanced transcatheter and minimally invasive cardiac surgical techniques.

Academic History

Professor Modine dedicated his surgical training to the advancement of percutaneous cardiovascular techniques and the multidisciplinary heart team approach. His academic career combines clinical excellence with leadership in both basic science and translational research programmes. He has been actively involved in developing innovative percutaneous mitral valve programmes in collaboration with industry…

Rebecca T Hahn is Director of Interventional Echocardiography at New York-Presbyterian/ Columbia University Medical Center, US. She also serves as Professor of Clinical Medicine at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons. Dr Hahn completed her medical training at University of Washington School of Medicine, and her residency and fellowship at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center. Dr Hahn is board certified in cardiovascular disease, internal medicine and echocardiography.

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.

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…