Beating Heart Mitral Valve Repair System

Dr Patrick Klein is Chair in bij Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery. His former positions include Cardio-thoracic Surgeon at Leiden University Medical Center. He completed his Doctor of Medicine (M.D) in Utrecht University. He is an experienced surgeon with a demonstrative history of working in the hospital & health care industry. Skilled in Cardiovascular Surgery, Clinical Research, Management and Medical Education. Strong healthcare services professional with a Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) from Universiteit Utrecht.

Dr Andrzej Gackowski, Jagiellonian University Medical College, John Paul II Hospital. Krakow, PL

Cardiologist with 30 - years of experience in tertiary academic cardiology centre. Head of Noninvasive Cardiovascular Laboratory and Consultant in Dept. of Coronary Disease and Heart Failure in John Paul II Hospital.  
Experienced in clinical echocardiography and interventional cardiology, including monitoring of structural beating heart interventions (TEER, HARPOON, TMVR, TAVI, LAAO, ASD closure, PMC).  
 

Dr Chourok Stabel-Mahassine is a Senior Cardiologist, Senior Consultant and has an MBA international in Healthcare Management. 

She is passionate about education and excellence in echocardiography and advanced imaging techniques - as well as advanced perioperative/intensive care transesophageal echocardiography; Echo guidance for mitral valve clipping & tricuspid valve clipping; Harpoon beating heart mitral valve repair; TAVI transcatheter aortic valve implantation.

Prof Dr Nikolas Bonaros is a senior consultant at Innsbruck University Hospital and an Associate Professor of Cardiac Surgery at the Medical University of Innsbruck.

His main interests are totally endoscopic and minimally invasive coronary and valve procedures including robotics and 3D visualization. He is director of an interdisciplinary program for transcatheter aortic and mitral valve interventions in Innsbruck. He has participated in several multicenter trials on coronary surgery, hybrid coronary revascularization and transcatheter valve interventions. His experimental interests focus on stem cell therapy and myocardial regeneration as well as on imaging techniques to facilitate minimally invasive procedures.

Prof Dr Andreas Liebold, MD is a Director, Dept. of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany. He attended Medical school in Leipzig, Cardiothoracic surgery training in Bad Neustadt and Regensburg, as well as Academic visits to Chicago, London, Paris, Strasbourg. His former positions include Head, Div. of Minimal Invasive Cardiac Surgery and Vice Chair Dept. of Cardiac Surgery, University of Rostock, Germany.

His key interests include Minimal invasive cardiac surgery, endoscopic mitral valve surgery. PI on SECRET Trial (Safety and Efficacy of Endoaortic Balloon Occlusion as Compared to Transthoracic Clamping for Minimally Invasive Mitral Valve Surgery). 

Dr Marta Sitges is a senior consultant non-invasive cardiologist at the Cardiovascular Institute in Hospital Clinic and Professor of Medicine at the University of Barcelona. She has also been the Director of the Cardiovascular Institute since October 2015.

Her main clinical practice is related to clinical and interventional echocardiography, sports cardiology and heart valve disease. She has an extensive publication track in these fields with participation in leading National and International meetings, she has received more than 60 peer reviewed grants and directed multiple MD and PhD thesis.