The Science of Ultrasound Renal Denervation

Prof Philipp Lurz is Director of the Department of Cardiology Universitätsmedizin Mainz, Germany. Prior to this, he served as Deputy Head of the Department at Heart Center Leipzig, Germany. Previously, Prof Lurz was a Clinical Research Fellow at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust. He completed his education at the University of Leipzig, and is a member of the German Society of Cardiology. Philipp is widely published in leading international peer-reviewed journals.

Dr Michael Joner MD completed his medical training at the University of Wuerzburg and spent 2004-2006 as a cardiovascular pathology fellow at the CVPath Institute. 

After returning to Germany, since 2007 Dr Joner has been Head of the Preclinical Research at the German Heart Centre in Munich, where he also completed his interventional cardiology residency. 

Prof Felix Mahfoud is an Associate Professor and senior physician of Internal Medicine and Cardiology at Saarland University Hospital, and Affiliate/Visiting Professor Harvard-MIT Biomedical Engineering, Institute of Medical Engineering and Science, Cambridge, US. Prof Mahfoud completed training in Cardiology and Interventional Cardiology at the Department for Internal Medicine III, Saarland University Hospital, Germany in 2014. Since 2017, he has served as Vice Chairman of the ‘Working Group on Interventional Hypertension Treatment’ for the European Society of Hypertension, and as a Committee Member of the 2018 Hypertension Guidelines.

Former Vice President, Research & Development, ReCor Medical

Mr Wu has over 20 years of experience in medical device product development. He has worked on devices in the fields of interventional cardiology, electrophysiology, pulmonology, and women’s health, and has taken a number of them from early concept phase through clinical or commercial launch.