Prof. Ken Okumura served as a Professor of Medicine at Hirosaki University School of Medicine from 1996 to 2016. He also served as a President of the Japanese Heart Rhythm Society (JHRS) from 2012 to 2016. He is now working at Saiseikai Kumamoto Hospital Cardiovascular Center, Japan, while providing the latest interventional treatments for cardiac arrhythmias especially catheter ablation of AF…
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Job title: Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, JP
Assoc ProfSenoo is currently conducting clinical research on atrial fibrillation (AF) as a senior lecturer at Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine (KPUM). Recently, he is interested in the introduction of Internet of Things (IoT) within the medical field, such as screening tests using wearable devices and diagnostic support using Artificial Intelligence (AI). He also conducts AF ablation and…
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Job title: Director of External Affairs
Prof Ben Freedman is currently Director External Affairs at the Heart Research institute and Group Leader of its Heart Rhythm and Stroke Prevention Group.He is a Honorary Professor of Cardiology at the University of Sydney and former head of Department of Cardiology, Concord Hospital.In 2015 with five others he formed the AF SCREEN International Collaboration, which now has well over 2,000…
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Dr David Conen is a cardiologist, scientist and principal investigator at the Population Health Institute at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada.
Dr Conen is Principal Investigator of two major international trials studying the treatment and prevention of atrial fibrillation – the COP-AF and ASPIRE-AF Trials.
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John M. Miller, MD is aprofessor of Medicine and head of the Electrophysiology Service at Indiana University School of Medicine, has been active in research into mechanisms of arrhythmias and development of new mapping and ablation techniques for many years, including those pertaining to atrial fibrillation (AF). He was involved in some of the early work with Dr. Sanjiv Narayan in mapping of…
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Job title: Professor
Dr Eue-Keun Choi, MD, is a professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, where he has been since 2009. He graduated from Seoul National University College of Medicine, received his PhD from the same institute, and completed his residence and cardiology fellow at Seoul National University Hospital. He was a postdoctoral research…
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Job title: Professor of Cardiology
Isabelle C. Van Gelder obtained her MD and PhD in Groningen, the where she also completed her cardiology and electrophysiology. Since 1995 she is working as cardiologist at the University Medical Center Groningen. Since 2006 she is Professor of Cardiology at the University of Groningen.
She is Board Member of EHRA and Chair of the EHRA Programme Committee 2020-2022. She is a visiting professor…
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Job title: Consultant and Professor of Cardiology
Personal History
Professor Ross Jacob Hunter was born in 1977 in the UK. He is a Consultant Cardiologist specialising in arrhythmia management and the clinical lead for AF services at The Barts Heart Centre.3
Academic History
Prof Hunter earned his BSc in Cardiovascular Medicine from Imperial College London in 1998. In 2001, he was awarded an MBBS with a distinction from Guy’s Kings …
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Prof Carlos Morillo is a cardiac electrophysiologist, currently serving in the Chief Division of Cardiology at theLibin Cardiovascular Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Prof Morillo has extensively researched Chagas disease since 1990, and was involved in the initial studies related to autonomic control in the different stages of the disease and the use of beta…
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